From March, PayPoint retailers across 14,000 outlets will be able to accept the Littlewoods Poolscard for collecting regular Littlewoods Football Pools and Littlewoods Lotto weekly stakes. The partnership with Littlewoods Gaming, owned by Sportech, is set to benefit both PayPoint agents and Littlewoods Gaming customers.
There are over 550,000 regular weekly players of Littlewoods Pools and Lotto, of which up to 300,000 use the Poolscard. Poolscard customers pre-register their favourite numbers and can now conveniently place their stakes at any PayPoint outlet. The retail service is exclusive to PayPoint and complements the traditional Littlewoods door-to-door Collectors.
The new initiative is a simple swipe card payment scheme which is already familiar to PayPoint agents and customers and uses the existing Littlewoods Poolscard. Selected PayPoint agents will also be able to sell a range of Littlewoods “Lucky Dip” slips. PayPoint agents will also benefit from a profitable 7.5% commission of the stake value.
Mike Igoe, PayPoint Retail Director, said: “Partnering with a household name such as Littlewoods Gaming on this new initiative, will provide our retailers with yet more reasons for customers to visit their stores and use PayPoint services. We recognise the popularity of the football pools and its huge latent demand, particularly in World Cup year.”
Gary Speakman, Chief Operating Officer of Sportech, said: “We are delighted to have further strengthened our distribution by securing an agreement with the extensive PayPoint retail network, which is complementary to our established online offering and network of door to door collectors. Our customers will now have the opportunity to play Littlewoods Football Pools and Littlewoods Lotto in over 14,000 outlets across their local communities.
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Notes to Editor:
PayPoint is a leading payment collection network of over 14,000 outlets used, primarily, for the cash payment of bills and services and prepayments for mobile telephones and energy meters.
PayPoint began trading in 1996 and initially collected payments through its network of retail agents for its founder client investors, who included British Gas, BT, BBC TV Licensing, London Electricity (now part of EDF Energy) and four water companies.
It now has more than 500 clients including many of the UK and Ireland’s major energy, cable, mobile and fixed line telephony companies. Its blue chip client list also extends to numerous water companies, local authorities and housing associations and a growing transport and travel base.
PayPoint listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004.
Sportech PLC provides a variety of betting and gaming opportunities to over 1.7m customers through Littlewoods Gaming, one of the UK’s most established brands.
Drawing on over 80 years of experience, Littlewoods Gaming has developed a wide-ranging product portfolio which includes football pools and football games, sports betting and on-line casino, poker and entertainment games including bingo.
Sportech is continually developing access to its gaming products through a network of channels including the internet, mobile phones, telephone, post and a UK network of collectors who visit customers at their homes.
Sportech PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange (SPO). For more information, visit www.sportech-plc.co.uk
