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Mecca Bingo is United Kingdom based bingo company owned by the Rank Group plc. The Rank Group is a European gaming business and is the leader in the field. The Group was founded in 1995 and was named after its founder J Arthur Rank. The company used to be the owners of the Odeon cinema chain and have shares in Pinewood studios. These assets were sold in 2000.

Mecca Bingo is a well known bingo brand in the United Kingdoms due to the fact they have clubs in most major cities.

Mecca Bingo try and make bingo more of an event and a night out then a game. Certain clubs will offer delicious food, party packages and late night games after the bingo gaming has finished. Bingo is mostly thought of as an older persons game but Mecca are trying to reinvent it. Out are all the dingy clubs but new state of the art clubs with plush interiors. Some woman treat bingo as night out so want to enjoy their time there. To play bingo in a club will be more expensive to play then online.

Mecca also offer an online gaming facility with live chat if you require any help. There are many games to play including online bingo. On the website they will show previous winners and how much they spent and how much they won. This is a good marketing ploy as people will see this and want to play in they hope they might win.

Gala Bingo is also known as the Gala Coral Group Ltd. It is British based company with the headquarters being in Nottingham. As well as being a well known Bingo house they also own betting shops and casinos. The company is owned by private equity houses Candover Investments, Cinven and Permira. The corporation merged with the Coral Eurobet in October 2005. The company is now the United Kingdoms third largest bookmaker.

Gala Bingo has over 148 clubs throughout the United Kingdom. It has grown considerably over the years since it was founded 1991 . The bingo giants has over 5 million members over 1.2 million of those members play on a regular basis with over 600,00 playing every week.

As well as being able to visit the Gala clubs you can also play Gala Bingo online. If you do not want to leave your house they have given you the opportunity to play in comfort. When playing online they give you the choice of playing for free. The company has special offers on a weekly basis to try and attract new customers. Every Thursday they will let you play one game an hour for free and you have the chance of winning over £2000.

When you sign up to Gala Bingo and play a live game they will issue new customers with £20 worth of free play.

Most games will cost on the region of 10p but no more then 40p.

The company estimate that they pay out over £28 million pounds in bingo prizes every week depending if they have good ticket sales.