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Vernons' Pools was founded in 1925, also in Liverpool, and Zetters was founded 1933 in London. In 1934, the Football Pool Promoters' Association was formed: besides Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters, its members were the other large pools companies including Cope's Pools (based in London), W.S. Murphy (Edinburgh) and Western Pools (Newport). [10]
Littlewoods pools business was the first to be established and grew into the biggest football pools business in the world. It went on to become the first sponsor of the FA Cup and its winners were often celebrated – notably Viv Nicholson, whose experience was immortalised in the book, play, and musical Spend, Spend, Spend. [12]
The Littlewoods, Vernons, and Zetters pools were merged into one new brand, "The New Football Pools", in August 2008. [14] In March 2017, Sportech announced that it has entered a ‘conditional agreement’ to sell its Football Pools division for £83 million to ‘FP Acquisitions Limited’ a newly created company controlled by the funds of ...
[22] [23] [24] Ladbrokes acquired Vernons Football Pools in 1989. [3] Stein retired in January 1994, under pressure from investors because of the company's rising debts and losses. [4] [21] [25] Under the new management and direction of Peter George, Ladbrokes focused on its core areas of hotels and gambling, and began to divest other parts of ...
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Sir John Moores CBE (25 January 1896 – 25 September 1993) [1] was an English businessman, telegraphist, football club owner, politician and philanthropist, most famous for the founding of the now defunct Littlewoods retail and football pools company. Liverpool John Moores University is named in his honour.
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