Ownership
Who owns UK casinos: every brand mapped to its licence holder
Playing at five different casinos is not the same as spreading your risk across five companies. Type a brand or a web address to see which company owns it, and what else that operator runs.
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Start typing to search 1,332 brands and websites.
Nothing on the register matches that.
The operators running the most brands
Each of these licence holders trades under several names. The deposit limits, the account checks and the enforcement record behind every one of their brands are the same, because they are owned by the same company in the only sense that matters to you: the licence.
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229names
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193names
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158names
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Skill On Net Limited
zingobingo · megawayscasino · winningkings · peter & sons · 44aces · ahtigames · bacanaplay · casino and friends · and 44 more
112names
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888 UK Limited
888
91names
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AG Communications Limited
aspireglobal
77names
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Grace Media (Gibraltar) Limited
grace gaming
72names
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Apollo Entertainment Limited
aztec riches casino uk · blackjack ballroom uk · captain cook casino uk · casino action uk · casino classic uk · casino kingdom uk · casino share uk · challenge casino uk · and 21 more
56names
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White Hat Gaming Limited
white hat gaming
41names
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Happytiger ApS
bingo boost · bingo burst · happytiger · spin king · lux casino
32names
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LC International Limited
bwin · cheeky bingo · coral · foxy bingo · foxy games · gala · gala bingo · gala casino · and 8 more
31names
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Boylesports Enterprise
boylebingo.com · boylecasino.com · boylegames.com · boylepoker.com · boylesports.com
26names
Source: Gambling Commission trading names and domain registers, read 11 August 2026.
Why who owns UK casinos matters more than the brand or the parent group
The question of who owns UK casinos sounds like trivia and is not. Every protection you rely on is held at company level rather than brand level. A deposit limit set at one site does not follow you to another site owned by the same company. Nor does a self-exclusion, unless you go through GAMSTOP. Nor does an account restriction after a failed check.
Knowing who owns UK casinos is therefore practical rather than academic. There is no obligation on an operator to tell you any of this, and commercially there is every reason not to. Two brands presented as competitors, with different artwork and different offers, can share a casino parent company, a compliance department and a single enforcement record. Working out which company owns which brand is the only way to know whether you have four independent accounts or one relationship wearing four names.
The register answers it, if you join the right files. Trading names and domains each carry the account number of the licence holder they belong to, so establishing who owns UK casinos is a matter of matching those numbers against the register of licensees. That is what the table above does, and it is why some very familiar names resolve to a casino parent company you have never heard of.
One caution. The register records the licence holder, not the ultimate corporate parent group. Where a licence holder is itself a subsidiary, the parent group above it will not appear here, because the Commission licenses the operating entity rather than the group. What you get is the company legally responsible for your account, which is the one that matters when something goes wrong.
Questions about casino ownership
Why does it matter who owns a casino?
Because the protections you rely on sit with the licence holder, not with the brand. Deposit limits, self-exclusion, account checks and your complaint route are all held at the company level. Playing at four brands owned by one company gives you one set of limits, not four.
How do you know which company runs a brand?
From the Gambling Commission's own registers of trading names and domains, both of which record the account number of the licence holder each name belongs to. Joining them to the register of licensees produces the mapping on this page.
What is a white label casino?
A brand operating on somebody else's licence. The company named on the register, not the name on the website, holds your funds, sets the terms and answers the complaint. The Commission marks these separately, and so do we.
Is one company running many brands a bad sign in itself?
No. Multi-brand operation is normal and says nothing on its own about how well a company is run. It matters because of what people assume: that spreading play across sites spreads risk. It does not, when the sites share an owner.
Why is a brand I know missing?
Three common reasons. It may trade under a name that differs from its registered trading name, it may be listed only by domain rather than by brand, or it may not hold a British licence at all. The licence checker resolves the third case directly.
How current is this ownership data?
It is re-read from the register weekly and every page states the date. Ownership changes, brand launches and closures happen continually, so treat the mapping as accurate as at the stated date rather than permanently.