Bombshell on the international market. Bwin and PartyGaming announced this morning the London Stock Exchange, the British stock market, merging . This operation will create the world’s largest online game . Negotiations between the two giants in the process took months but pointed to recent news that the agreement had stalled.
As we read in EGamingReview, Bwin is the majority shareholder of the new company with a 51.64% while PartyGaming will retain the remaining 48.36%.
From left. to right.: Manfred Bodner (Bw), Jim Ryan (PG), Martin Weigold (PG) and Norbert Teufelberger (Bw) (photo: bwin)
Jim Ryan , chief executive of PartyGaming, and Norbert Teufelberger , co-director of Bwin, will be co-managers of the new company, while the current co-director of Bwin, Mafra Bodner, will become non-executive director on the board of the group.
“This is an opportunity for transformation for our two companies will create the biggest business in the online gaming world. With the lead in poker, sports betting, casino and games (including bingo), the new enlarged group will have the winning formula to tap the growing online gaming market, backed by a strong statement, a cash generating significant and a highly experienced management team, “said Jim Ryan.
To Teufelberger, “The merger of equals has a great sense at the strategic, operational and financial.”
Taking into account, as we reported to you today, according to new rules adopted in the United States which provides (for lack of Senate approval) the legalization of online gambling and that would exclude companies that have operated illegally in the country (PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker), the creation of a poker room out of this merger, USA and licensed, would be a great competition for the two main current .
No doubt, this is another big movement in the present turbulent international business Internet gambling.

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