The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Peter Jackson, Flutter

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Betting giant announced two acquisitions worth more than €2.6bn

Peter Jackson, chief executive of Dublin-based but New York-listed betting giant Flutter Entertainment, has been chosen as Business Person of the Month for September, an award run in association with

If the deals are approved by regulators it will give Flutter top three positions in most of the world’s regulated gambling markets. Flutter already owns Sky Bet, which operates in Ireland and Britain, Sportsbet in Australia and FanDuel in the US, its most important market and where it recently moved its main stock market listing.

Its most recent quarterly figures showed that net profit more than quadrupled to $297 million . Revenue increased by 20 per cent to $3.6 billion.

 

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