ALEX BRUMMER: 株主s who let Ladbrokes 落ちる into the 手渡すs of an 沖合いの／海外の upstart have 得るd a bitter 収穫

By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail

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賭事ing 複合的な／複合企業体 GVC is in 広大な／多数の／重要な danger of becoming the new Persimmon as the company’s 主要な lights rack up rapacious riches and ride roughshod over governance norms.

Such practices were bad enough at Persimmon, which uses taxpayer 基金s in the 形態／調整 of Help to Buy to 配達する 住宅.

But they are unconscionable and exploitative at GVC, which has turned the 広大な／多数の／重要な British love of a ぱたぱたする on the gee-gees into a 全世界の gaming 中毒.

Gambling conglomerate GVC, which owns?Ladbrokes and Coral, has turned the great British love of a flutter on the gee-gees into a global gaming addiction

賭事ing 複合的な／複合企業体 GVC, which owns?Ladbrokes and 珊瑚, has turned the 広大な／多数の／重要な British love of a ぱたぱたする on the gee-gees into a 全世界の gaming 中毒

The company had to be browbeaten into lowering the 火刑／賭けるs 許すd on ‘割れ目-コカイン’ gaming machines and recently felt compelled to do a 部分的な／不平等な U-turn on betting advertising on TV sports ニュース報道.

A 誓約（する）, incidentally, riddled with 穴を開けるs, 含むing the 権利 to adverti se during horse-racing broadcasts.

When it comes to the 福利事業 of their own (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs the 小島 of Man-based group, which owns the Queen’s bookie Ladbrokes and 珊瑚, shows no humility.

長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Kenny Alexander was paid £19.1million last year thanks to what is curiously 述べるd as a ‘遺産／遺物 award’ linked to its 引き継ぎ／買収 of online gaming group bwin.party in 2015.?

One shudders to think what 遺産／遺物 horrors will be disinterred from the far larger Ladbrokes 引き継ぎ／買収.

One might have thought that Alexander and his chairman 物陰／風下 Feldman, who received a 支払う／賃金 一括 of £8.5million, might have learned from last year’s 株主 反乱 when 44 per cent of 投資家s 投票（する）d against 連合させるd awards of £67million.

More socially aware souls might have thought it wise to 注入する the awards into a 信用 取引，協定ing with 賭事ing 中毒s. But bookies are not used to giving anything 支援する to the 次第に損なうs who 基金 their 高級な life.

The 最新の 乱暴／暴力を加える comes on 最高の，を越す of the sale this year of 株 in GVC to the value of £13.7m, sending the price 負かす／撃墜する by 18 per cent and punishing all other 投資家s in the same way that the 会社／堅い 配達するs 苦痛 to gamblers every day.

It is 容認できない that chairman 物陰／風下 Feldman, whose 職業 it is to stymie the 超過s of the 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, should be part of the 遺産／遺物 awards. He already has 越えるd his nine years in office and 報告（する）／憶測s 示唆する he 計画（する）s to leave at the 2020 AGM.

One hat es to think of the GVC rewards to our old friend Andy Hornby, 退役軍人 of the HBOS 崩壊（する）. He 行為／法令／行動するs behind the scenes because his past 妨げるs a frontline 役割.

The time has come for GVC to 可決する・採択する governance 改革（する）s. 住所／本籍 in the 小島 of Man should not be an 選択 for a FTSE 100 company with a market value of nearly £4billion.

It needs a powerful chairman 有能な of keeping the 超過s of Alexander and his coterie in check. 株主s who 許すd Ladbrokes to 落ちる into the 手渡すs of an 沖合いの／海外の upstart have 得るd a bitter 収穫.

Sour grapes

A （株主への）配当 増加する and 約束s to spruce up 400 shabby 蓄える／店s will not 救助（する） the 評判 of Sainsbury’s 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある マイク クーデター.

The failed 成果／努力 to 合併する with Asda was doomed from the start in spite of expensive and 欠陥d 競争 advice from City lawyers.?

投資家s and 従業員s should not 許す the £48million thrown away on 助言者 料金s and the monumental waste of (n)役員／(a)執行力のある time while 競争相手s won market 株.

クーデター embarrassed himself with the barbs 目的（とする）d at the 競争 & Markets 当局 after it put the 利益／興味s of 消費者s and 供給者s first.

Sainsbury’s is not a 破産した／（警察が）手入れするd 紅潮／摘発する. It 配達するs high-質 produce and it is no 事故 that it 避けるd 存在 caught up in the horsemeat スキャンダル.

The 取得／買収 of Argos, its 目録 and 兵たん業務 give it a 抱擁する advantage in developing 非，不，無-food offerings with better 利ざやs.?

And at a time when banks have 疎遠にするd 顧客s by の近くにing 支店s and 除去するing ATMs, Sainsbury’s has an 適切な時期 to 供給する 平易な-to-接近 services which we all crave.

There may also be 合併 適切な時期s. Tesco and the Co-op, for instance, have 利益d from 広範囲にわたる up smaller chains. Time for big rethink at the 最高の，を越す.

Jolly japes

Britain’s most emblematic holiday 目的地, Butlin’s, 計画（する）s to give 中心 Parcs a run for its money.

It has just opened a £40million seaside-奮起させるd pools コンビナート／複合体 in Bognor Regis, replete with the world’s first Helter Skelter water ride and colourful stick-of-激しく揺する slides. Eat your heart out, Brighton Pier.

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