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Bet365 boss earns ₤ 469m in a single year

1 April 2021

The one in charge of the gaming company Bet365 has been granted one of the most significant pay packages in UK corporate history.

The greatest paid director of Bet365 Group - thought to be creator and majority shareholder Denise Coates CBE - earned a wage of ₤ 421m in the year ending 29 March.

She also made ₤ 48m in dividends, taking her total pay to ₤ 469m.

The business said the plans were "proper and reasonable", in spite of sales falling at the company last year.

But project group the High Pay Centre said it was "appallingly ineffective for single individuals to hoard wealth in this method".

Ms Coates, who founded the Bet365 website 20 years earlier in Stoke-on-Trent, has actually been the UK's highest paid employer for several years.

She is likewise among Britain's most and a major philanthropist, contributing millions through the Denise Coates Foundation.

Her income in the year to March was more than 50% higher than the ₤ 277m received in 2019 and indicated she earned nearly ₤ 1.2 m every day in 2015.

That was more than the one in charges of every FTSE 100 business combined, according to the High Pay Centre.

It came as sales at Bet365 fell 8% to ₤ 2.8 bn as international sporting occasions were cancelled due to the yohaig code pandemic. Profits slumped 74% to ₤ 194.7 m.

However, the yohaig code company stated it had not cut personnel pay or laid off staff members as an outcome of the crisis. It also did not use the furlough scheme.

The business likewise paid ₤ 85m to Ms Coates's charitable foundation.

Ms Coates and her sibling John took over the gambling service 20 years back, which was run by their dad. Ms Coates now owns about half of the company.

She has actually previously been described as one of the UK's "most effective women".

Ms Coates accomplished a top-notch degree in econometrics and later on trained as an accountant within the family firm, building even more on the understanding of the then small chain that she selected up while working part-time throughout high school.

The primary executive's yearly pay packet is most likely to be the greatest in UK history. Earlier this month, hedge fund magnate Sir Chris Hohn staked a claim to that title after paying himself ₤ 343m in 2015.

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