Paddy Power - Online Betting

Paddy Power is the largest provider of online gaming services in Ireland and a leading provider of online gaming services in the UK. Founded in 1988 by the merger of three existing Irish high street bookmakers, the company takes an unconventional approach to betting and gaming.

Our mission is to make ‘risk-based entertainment’ more accessible and fun.

We are committed to providing customers with the best possible gaming experience through sourcing industry leading software, providing high quality customer service and creating quality content.


Some Figures

Paddy Power is a publicly quoted company, listed on both the Irish and London Stock Exchanges, with a turnover of €2,101m and profits before tax of €79.0m in 2008.

We offer various online products including sports betting, poker, casino, games, bingo and financial spread-betting among others.

Paddy Power operates a chain of 260 licensed betting offices in the UK and Ireland and a telephone betting service, Dial-a-Bet. In the UK, our shops are currently concentrated in the Greater London area; however we are expanding into Glasgow and the North-West of England.

Paddy Power currently employs around 1,900 people - and counting!

Outlook & Opportunities

We are aggressively driving an expansion strategy which will see Paddy Power entering new online businesses, such as financial spread betting. Paddy Power operates a Spanish language website and we plan to further extend our footprint in geographical markets outside our Irish and UK core markets.