William Hill The Man & The Business

This is the story of how a working class boy born into a family of 13 children in pre-World War I Birmingham grew up to revolutionize the world of betting and bookmaking. William Hill beat the odds by starting out as a teenage one-man band, making the rounds of Birmingham's factories, pubs, and clubs on his secondhand motorbike taking penny, tuppence, and tanner bets. He went on to launch a fixed odds soccer betting business which took a total of £6 18/6d in its first week, but grew to a multi-million pound turnover before being almost taxed into extinction. However, today, William Hill, whose first London office was opened in 1934, and staffed by just William and one clerk, is a truly global bookmaker, with offices in nine countries; operating across 19 time zones, it is a FTSE 100 company, has over 2,500 betting shops and employs nearly 20,000 people.

ISBN:	9781910498019
Publisher:	Pitch Publishing
Imprint:	Racing Post Books
Published date:	24 Apr 2015
DEWEY:	795.092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	viii, 376 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	394g
Height:	200mm
Width:	131mm
Spine width:	34mm

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