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Tote, the Wigan-based bookmaker with 450 betting shops, is to be sold off by the government on the open market, and Gala Coral has indicated that it would be prepared to bid up to £405m. 06-Mar-2008 Arena Leisure is leading a racing industry consortium that has submitted a bid to the government to acquire the Tote, the Wigan-based chain of 540 betting shops. 18-Sep-2006 William Hill is to sell a further 48 betting shops to Tote for £20m, taking Tote's total estate to more than 500. 13-Dec-2005 William Hill is to sell 28 betting shops to the Tote for £15m, in order to win regulatory approval for the acquisition of Stanley Leisure's betting shops. 12-Jul-2005 Tote, the bookmaker, is to relocate its head office from London to the Wigan Investment Centre in March, to be closer to the 600 staff already employed in Wigan. 23-Feb-2005 Tote, the state-owned betting organisation, is expected to be sold to a racing trust, raising between £100m and £200m for the government. 04-Dec-2003 Tote has acquired 41 Seymour & Story betting shops, taking its total estate to 435. 28-Apr-2003 Tote has acquired the Manny Bernstein chain of 30 betting shops in the Midlands and North East, taking its chain to almost 400. 16-Apr-2002 Tote is planning to open a further 130 betting shops, taking its chain to 500 by 2004. 03-Dec-2001 Tote, the state-owned bookmaker, is relocating its internal audit and pools integrity management divisions from London to the new Centre for Trade & Technology Transfer in Wigan. 28-Feb-2001 Tote has acquired 37 Yorkshire-based betting shops from Peter Smith Racing for undisclosed terms. 29-Dec-1999 The Tote pool betting operation is now expected to be sold to a racing trust, as the racing industry has put pressure on the government not to sell it to a commercial bookmaking group. 13-Oct-1999 The government has confirmed that the Tote betting business will be sold off, but has left open the possibility that it could be acquired by some sort of racing trust in order to keep the profits in the sport. 13-May-1999 Tote has acquired 32 Mike Dines betting shops in the North West of England for undisclosed terms, taking its total number of outlets to 275. 05-May-1999 The Tote pool-betting operation has appointed Close Brothers to advise on strategies to develop the business, following the government decision to look at the possibility of selling the Tote to the private sector. 21-Aug-1998 The government is looking at ways to involve the private sector in the running of the Tote, which has an exclusive licence to operate pool betting. 12-Jun-1998
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