About Us
The Rank Group PLC
Rank Group PLC owns the Mecca Bingo, Grosvenor Casinos, Hard Rock Casino, and G Casino brands in addition to the online gaming organisation Blue Square. In addition to the UK operations Rank Group owns two Casinos in Belgium and eleven Bingo Clubs in Spain. In total we have over six million Bingo members and over three million Casino members.
So who is Mecca Bingo?
Mecca Bingo is one of the largest operators in the UK leading the market since opening its first club in London in 1961. Today it owns 102 clubs across the UK, with nearly 4,000 employees. Mecca sees admissions in excess of 18 million per year. Our current membership database has over six million people on it. Typically 30% of which are male and 70% are female.
Some fun facts about Bingo!
- It's official bingo boosts the brain! Bingo keeps your mind alert which is surely good for everyone.
- Bingo is fun! It gives people from all walks of life the chance to socialise and enjoy themselves - that's why there are more than 3 million regular players in UK!
- Celebrities love bingo! Denise Van Outen is a big bingo fan, as are Catherine Zeta-Jones, Robbie Williams, Chris Evans, and Paul Gascoigne.
- The biggest National bingo win ever was £956,000 - such a big win could buy you over 2.7 million cups of tea at Mecca Bingo!
- There are 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000,000 bingo card combinations! See if you can say that number?!
- Bingo was played by the Romans and was also a children's educational game called Lotto in 1778. The game first became really popular in the early 1900’s and was properly established by American toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe in 1929.
- The word “bingo” came about when Edwin S. Lowe (man who established bingo) was playing a Lotto game called Beano at a carnival, and one of his friends mistook the word beano and said bingo!
- Commercial bingo first exploded onto the scene in the UK in the 1960’s.
For more information visit our website on www.meccabingo.com