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Industry Analysis - Leisure and Entertainment

One could be forgiven for thinking the future of leisure and entertainment in the UK consists of a couple of hours online gambling, watching sport or ‘participation’ shows on an HDTV before texting in your vote as you listen to downloaded music en route to an actual casino.

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32. WPP

The WPP IT department doesn’t answer the phone. Instead it offers a voicemail with an invitation to leave a message, an email address and says that because of the high volume of enquiries it receives it is unable to answer all calls.

50. Whitbread

Whitbread is in growth mode. That is the chief message of the company's Change and Information Director, Ben Wishart, now in his fourth year of leading a business transformation programme within the international hospitality group.

54. Virgin Media

The post merger infrastructure integration work at Virgin Media may be finished, but for Howard Watson and his IS team there is still a lot of work to do. The company has had a good year, and has plans to make 50Mb broadband available to some 12 million homes by the middle of next year, and it is currently upgrading its 4Mb customers to 10Mb free of charge.

55. McDonald’s Restaurants

McDonalds biggest customer facing technology move of the last year was the roll out of free wi fi access in its 1,200 UK stores which it announced in October 2007.

75. Ladbrokes

Ladbrokes - dubbed the 'Magic Sign' within the gambling and leisure industry - is easily the biggest UK betting company in the UK, and is the largest retail bookmaker in the world. Ladbrokes takes £10m bets a week and £12bn annually off UK ‘punters,'. The firm owns and runs over 2,000 retail betting outlets in the UK, Ireland and Belgium. In the last few years it has made a successful investment in all things online, with several online gambling sites offering sportsbook, poker, casino, games, bingo and backgammon, based on the Orbis Technology OpenBet platform. In fact, for its last full yearly figures commentators judged the company's online business had pipped the efforts of its chief domestic rival, William Hill, for the first time.

76. British Sky Broadcasting

Although the technology budget is being cut British Sky Broadcasting is intent on positioning itself as the leading triple play provider, supplying customers with broadcast TV, home telephony and broadband services.

94. Trinity Mirror

Local and national newspaper publishing group Trinity Mirror continues to shake up its business and is investing in technology.

96. ITV

Commercial broadcaster ITV has had a hard 12 months. It has been relegated from the FTSE 100 index and suffered at the hands of a shrinking advertising market as the economy slows down.

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