{"id":57227,"date":"2023-10-24T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/?p=57227"},"modified":"2023-10-24T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T09:05:40","slug":"new-888-boss-purchases-two-million-shares-in-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/new-888-boss-purchases-two-million-shares-in-company\/","title":{"rendered":"New 888 Boss Purchases Two Million Shares in Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57228\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57228\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57228\" src=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Per-Widerstrom-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Per-Widerstrom-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Per-Widerstrom-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Per-Widerstrom-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Per-Widerstrom.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Per Widerstr\u00f6m<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Online gambling firm 888 announced on Monday that its new Chief Executive Officer Per Widerstr\u00f6m had purchased 1.12 million ordinary shares in the company for a sale price of 84.3p each totalling \u00a3948,829.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Following the purchase Widerstr\u00f6m now holds 2.06 million ordinary shares in 888 holdings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The recently installed new CEO of 888, Per Widerstr\u00f6m who only officially took over on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> October said on joining the company,\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI am very excited to have joined the 888 group as the new CEO, I have already been struck by the strength of the group\u2019s assets and its clear potential, as well as the ambition of our team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI am happy to note that despite the regulatory challenges the group has faced this year, the hard work by the team is already showing signs of results meaning that we head towards the end of the year with positive momentum, and well placed to grow in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThis is a business with a very strong foundation for profitable growth. But there are clearly also several areas for improvement which we will focus on to unlock our full potential and drive value creation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI am looking forward to working closely with our fantastic people in the group, the talented executive team and the board to ensure we are in the best possible position to deliver our plans and maximise value creation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online gambling firm 888 announced on Monday that its new Chief Executive Officer Per Widerstr\u00f6m had purchased 1.12 million ordinary shares in the company for a sale price of 84.3p each totalling \u00a3948,829. Following the purchase Widerstr\u00f6m now holds 2.06 million ordinary shares in 888 holdings. The recently installed new CEO of 888, Per Widerstr\u00f6m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-igaming","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New 888 Boss Purchases Two Million Shares in Company - iGaming Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/new-888-boss-purchases-two-million-shares-in-company\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New 888 Boss Purchases Two Million Shares in Company - iGaming Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Online gambling firm 888 announced on Monday that its new Chief Executive Officer Per Widerstr\u00f6m had purchased 1.12 million ordinary shares in the company for a sale price of 84.3p each totalling \u00a3948,829. 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