Sportingbet chairman Peter Dicks told today’s AGM that “the group has seen a return to more normal levels of activity in November and in the first half of December.”

The encouraging results are a timely boost for Sportingbet as the company continues offer talks with William Hill. The chairman’s statement continued: “The board remain confident that the results for the full year ending July 2013 will meet its current expectations.
“Any shortfall in Australian trading in the first three months of the financial year that are not recovered during the remainder of the year, will be offset by tighter cost control across the group.”