Peter Jackson
Management
I’m going to start by giving you a brief overview of the headline developments of the group over last year. I then want to talk for a few minutes about the changes we’re making to put responsible gambling at the heart of what we do and the regulatory backdrop for our business and the sector more broadly. Jonathan will then go through our 2019 financial results before handing over to Matt, who will provide an updated view on the U.S. market and the progress we’re making there. It’s almost a year since our U.S. Capital Markets Day, and a lot has happened in the U.S. in that time. So it’s great to have Matt here. I’ll then talk about the performance of our core PPB online and Sportsbet businesses before giving you a brief update on our proposed combination with the Stars Group. We’ll then open up for Q&A. Turning to Slide 4. I can work the slides – here we are. It’s fair to say that 2019 was a very busy year for Flutter as we made progress against all four pillars of our strategy. In the year of big developments, the standout one was obviously announcements of our proposed combination with The Stars Group, which I’ll speak about at the end. Aside from that deal, in Europe, we added a podium position to our portfolio with the acquisition of Adjarabet in February and have been very encouraged by how well that business has performed in Georgia and Armenia since. In the U.S., performance has exceeded our expectations across the board. We became the market leader in both the online sport betting and online gaming. It is a market which I continue to believe were the biggest – to be the biggest legal market in the world. We saw…