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Unlike most of the other big gambling groups we talk about on this site, a significant portion of The Rank Group\u2019s business involves offline venues, specifically high street casinos and bingo halls.<\/p>\n
Of course they do operate online as well, they would be mad not to, but this has never been their main focus, so their approach is a little different and it has left them exposed at certain times.<\/p>\n
The Rank Group have had an extremely varied and interesting journey to the top, having held business interests in engineering, traditional entertainment and leisure such as holiday parks etc, restaurants, and even the film industry – did you know that if it wasn\u2019t for The Rank Group there would be no Bugsy Malone?<\/p>\n
From their inception in 1937 by J. Arthur Rank, a young man originally from Hull, it seems they *\u201ccould have been anything that they wanted to be\u201d, so how did they end up in the gambling industry?<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll get onto that in due course, for now, it is enough to know that they own Grosvenor Casino and Mecca Bingo, making them the biggest casino operator and the second biggest bingo club operator in the country.<\/p>\n
*That’s a Bugsy Malone reference for anyone who was confused.<\/p>\n