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🔑 4 accounts, only 1 holds websites
👥 Three sisters that show how far this licence stretches
Six brands answer to one online licensee, and they are not variations on a theme. The three below are the furthest apart of the five: the one that copies this site almost exactly, the one with the busiest name file in the group, and the one with no British high street behind it at all.
Two more brands sit on the same licence and are worth a click of their own. Foxy Bingo is the only address in the group filed against two different licensees, live on this account and dormant on the 888 UK one. Sportingbet is the only brand carrying a second live address of its own, sports.sbet.com, which holds no trading name at all.
🏦 Four accounts sit behind the Coral name
Search the business side of the public list for Coral and more than one company answers. The websites belong to LC International Limited, a Gibraltar company at Suite 6, Atlantic Suites, GX11 1AA, which files fifteen web addresses, thirteen of them live, plus sixteen trading names and not one premises. Every site in the group opens from that single file.
The shops are a different company. Ladbrokes Betting and Gaming Limited works out of One Stratford Place, Montfichet Road, London E20 1EJ, files no web addresses at all, and runs 2,683 premises between the two high street names. That figure covers both high street names at once, which means it tells you nothing about how many of the shops carry either particular sign.
📌 The four files, and what each one holds
- LC International Limited, Gibraltar. Every website in the group, six remote permissions, all live since 1 July 2019.
- Ladbrokes Betting and Gaming Limited, London. The shops, nine permissions across three licence numbers, the oldest live since 1 January 2009.
- Ladbrokes Coral Trust. Two dormant charity names and one lottery permission, opened 31 March 2010 and now shown as Surrendered on 10 April 2025.
- Entain Operations Limited, Gibraltar. Five remote permissions live since 2 February 2021, no trading name, no address and an empty actions page.
The fourth file is the strange one. Four of its five permissions are permissions to supply rather than to sell: hosting the betting or the bingo that runs under another brand, and building the software beneath it. An account shaped like that has no player to point a brand at, which is why it files no address and no trading name. Of the four company names in this group, it is also the only one carrying the word Entain, so the licences customers actually meet are named after the brands they recognise while the one named after the group sits behind them supplying the hosting.
The ancillary remote permission on the shop licence, live since 8 April 2020, is the one row that belongs cleanly to neither side. It covers gaming by remote equipment sited entirely within one set of premises: a terminal standing inside the shop, not a handset out in the street.
🔍 The only address on the file that does not end in .com
coral.co.uk is one of thirteen live addresses on the online account, and the only one of them ending in .co.uk. Every other working address on the file ends in .com, which is a small marker of where the rest of the group was built. The name also appears twice among the trading names, once as coral and once as gala coral, and that second entry is the only one anywhere on this licence welding two brand names together. It reads as a leftover from the years the two chains were run as one.
A name in that table is permission to trade under a word. It does not guarantee that a working site sits behind that word, and two of the thirteen live addresses show why. Typed into a browser on 9 August 2026, galaspins.com opened the spins section of galabingo.com and foxygames.com opened the games section of foxybingo.com. Both remain separately live on the file, because a filed address answers a licensing question rather than a question about what is on screen.
📋 What a search on the word coral turns up
- Five accounts answer. Two are the online and shop licensees, and a third is the group charity file.
- Leaguenotion trades as coral island. No matching address, and no connection to the bookmaker.
- Isabelle Marianne Belton trades as coral beach leisure. Again no matching address, again unconnected.
- Search the address instead of the word and coral.co.uk returns a single account.
💼 The way in, screen by screen
Read on 9 August 2026, the join route runs four screens. Set up your account takes an email address, a mobile number with a +44 prefix, a User ID and a password. Let us get to know you takes a title, first and last name, a date of birth, and a postcode lookup that also allows the address to be typed out by hand. An interstitial reading Verifying your details runs next, before anything further is asked. A deposit-limit screen closes it, with the limit badged Recommended and a Skip for now route past it.
Set that beside Ladbrokes and the four screens match word for word. Three things separate them: the reset control on the address step reads Start over here and Clear address there, the submit button reads Create my account here and Create your account there, and step two names the Terms and the Age and Identity Verification Policy here where the other version also names the Privacy Policy.
A fifth panel follows the deposit limit on Ladbrokes and was not reached on this flow. Under the heading Stay secure with fund protection, it explains that player balances sit in an account run independently by a trustee, and it rates that protection as High. That is a real player fact and the one stretch of the two flows that cannot be set against each other.
⚠ Two settlements that the actions total does not show
The actions total reads zero on the online account and zero on the shop account, and the actions list returns nothing under either company name or under any brand name on the file. The zero is accurate. What it is not is a record of conduct, because an actions list holds only what currently stands against a currently licensed account.
🔔 31 July 2019 · £5.9m
- Announced against Ladbrokes Coral Group over failings running from November 2014 to October 2017 and continuing through the merger.
- The two licensees named were Coral Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited and Ladbrokes Betting and Gaming Limited. The company holding the websites today was not among them.
- £4.8m was paid in lieu of a financial penalty, met by incoming owner GVC, and £1.1m was divested profit.
- One published case ran thirty months to £98,000 of losses, with 460 deposit attempts declined and a request to stop receiving promotions on file, and not one social responsibility contact in all that time.
🔖 17 August 2022 · £17m
- Announced against LC International Limited and Ladbrokes Betting and Gaming Limited, split £14m against the online side and £3m against the shops, all of it directed to socially responsible purposes.
- Two licence conditions were added: a named board member put over the improvement plan, and a third-party audit inside twelve months.
- Published cases included one customer putting in £742,000 over fourteen months with source of funds never properly checked, and another, known to be living in social housing, depositing £186,000 inside six months.
- The announcement described the shop licensee as running 2,746 premises. The premises total today is 2,683, and the two figures are four years apart.
Neither package was a fine paid to the Gambling Commission. The 2019 money was a payment in lieu of a penalty plus divested profit; the later sum was directed instead to socially responsible causes. The regulator described the second package as its largest enforcement outcome up to that point, promised close monitoring, and said any repeat of failings on that scale could threaten the right to hold a licence at all. A reader who sees the two zeroes and concludes this group has never been sanctioned is wrong by £22.9m.
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🔒 What one licensee means if you have asked to be stopped
The regulator licenses the company, not the logo. Thirteen live addresses report to a single licensee, which means any arrangement you reach is reached with that company rather than with the name printed across the top of the screen.
The 2022 findings published a case of exactly that failing. One customer was blocked at one brand after twelve months in which £60,000 went in and no evidence of source of funds arrived. A second brand on the same licensee opened an account for that person immediately, and £30,000 ran through it within a day. Allowing a customer under enquiry or restriction to open an account with another brand on the same licensee was recorded as a social responsibility failure, and added licence conditions followed. Switching to a sister brand does not reset anything.
GAMSTOP sits above all of it. Taking part is a condition of holding a British remote licence, so one block placed through the scheme shuts off every gambling site licensed in Britain at the same moment. That reach comes from the scheme itself, not from the way this group happens to be licensed.
- ✅ Safe: Searching the web address rather than the brand name, and treating a complaint about the website and a complaint about a shop as two different companies. coral.co.uk returns one account; the word coral returns five, and three of those five have nothing to do with betting.
- ❌ Costly: Reading a filed trading name as proof that a working site sits behind it, or a sister brand as a clean slate after a restriction. Two live addresses on this account open sections of other sites, and the published case above cost one customer £30,000 in a day.
🔗 Where to go next on this account
All four accounts, the full address list, both settlements in full and the permission dates for each file.
See Coral on the sportsbook sister sites index.