{"id":513769,"date":"2025-10-20T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/513769\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:02:17","slug":"gaming-firm-set-for-40m-london-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/513769\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming firm set for \u00a340m London IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesscloud.co.uk\/news\/category\/deals\/\" class=\"post-categories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winvia Entertainment PLC will float on the junior AIM market of the London Stock Exchange early next month.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which operates prize draw brands BOTB and Click Competitions in the UK as well as online gaming in Romania, says preparations for admission are at an advanced stage.<\/p>\n<p>It expects to list during the first week of November 2025 and raise \u00a340m in the IPO.<\/p>\n<p>The firm \u2013 which has expanded rapidly through a combination of organic development and targeted acquisitions \u2013 made \u00a37m profit before tax last year with \u00a3153m gross revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds of the placing are planned to be used to fund acquisitions in the UK prize draw sector. It said it is in discussions with several potential acquisition targets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7DMZOxsS0t\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesscloud.co.uk\/news\/entrepreneur-opens-up-about-near-fatal-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entrepreneur opens up about near-fatal fall<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnnouncing our intention to float on AIM marks an exciting milestone for Winvia Entertainment,\u201d said CEO Mihai Manoila.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince inception we have built two successful well-established units, UK prize draw and Romanian online gaming, that have in turn resulted in Winvia Entertainment being a highly profitable, fast-growing and cash generative business with a track record of successful M&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderpinning this is our well-invested proprietary technology platform which we believe is a key differentiator in our space. It has been built in-house, with high levels of customisation which allow faster execution and delivery of new products and deeper integration with third party systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis platform has enabled us to significantly improve the key performance metrics of businesses that we have acquired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn IPO would allow us to accelerate our growth strategy, specifically on the UK Prize Draw business where we see significant opportunities, both organic and inorganic, in a fragmented and fast-growing market where we can implement our technology platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sYrtXm6EeO\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesscloud.co.uk\/news\/ftse-100-firm-smiths-makes-1-3bn-disposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTSE 100 firm Smiths Group plc makes \u00a31.3bn disposal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deals Winvia Entertainment PLC will float on the junior AIM market of the London Stock Exchange early next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,25554,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-513769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-businesscloud","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115405215937362521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}