Entain Edition – July 2024

We’ve been flat to the boards across Australia and New Zealand getting our new brand and website/app ready for launch in only a few short weeks now. The launch of betcha (detailed below) will put an exclamation point on a huge season of transformation here at Entain. We can’t wait to get stuck into promoting and selling some of the excellent racing and sport content coming up and showing all of our stakeholders and customers what our new betting and media platforms can truly do.

I had the fortune last week to spend some time with Dr Elliot Forbes, the new CEO of the Racing Integrity Board. Dr Forbes’ ambition for the Board, and his areas of immediate focus gave me great confidence – and reminded me how fortunate we are to have a truly independent body charged with ensuring racing operates with the highest integrity, and with a level playing field for all participants.

On a related note, we were very pleased to see the Sports Integrity Commission (Te Kahu Raunui) officially open its doors this month. Customers having the confidence that both racing and sport in this country are clean and free from corruption is critical to its long-term sustainability, and we believe New Zealand can be world-leading in this space.

As always, you are welcome to share or forward this newsletter to anyone in the industry who you think might like to read this. They can sign up to receive the Entain Edition directly by contacting . The winners of the first ever Industry Excellence Awards will be announced at a function in Auckland on Sunday. For a list of the finalists, check out the media release from earlier this month, and we’ll look to profile some of the category winners and the overall Entain Excellence Award winner across various outlets in the next few weeks. We share regular updates on LinkedIn around what’s happening in the world of Entain Australia & New Zealand. If you’re on LinkedIn, keep up to date by following us.  

Entain team profile

Name: Simon Godber
Role: General Manager – Retail NZ
Time with Entain: 14 months   What excites you about the strategic partnership:

It is obviously very difficult to pinpoint just one thing. However, a couple of key aspects for me are: Access to deeper talent pools right across the business, enabling us to deliver meaningful changes for our customers at record speed; At a team level, it is extremely exciting to be able to make a deeper investment into the retail network than would have been possible without the strategic partnership, with the intention of genuinely transforming New Zealand into the best physical wagering experience in the world What race, event or opportunity are you most looking forward to in NZ racing in the next 12 months?

Without a doubt, the inaugural running of Champions Day in 2025 and The NZB Kiwi. The race card is like no other in New Zealand and will make for an unbelievable day’s racing and raceday experience with some of the best talent (horses and jockeys) across New Zealand and Australia on display.