By Penny Walker on Monday, 20 Oct 2008 A bingo boss has explained what it was like to move from the world of banking to the bingo industry more than 30 years ago and has raised some issues concerning the numbers game industry at present.
Stewart Neame, who owns two bingo establishments in Kent, told the Whitstable Times that the bingo business has changed over the years.
Adapting to the developments is something companies such as his have had to do in order to survive and, in some cases, thrive in a competitive sector.
Mr Neame runs Connaught Bingo in Herne Bay and Oxford Bingo in Whitstable, and claimed that he has "never looked back" since swapping his job in banking for running his own firm.
"People don't want the old bingo halls anymore so we have had to change with the times. We have refurbished and run it more as a social club with less hardcore bingo," the businessman stated.
Earlier this year, the Bingo Association's communications manager Steve Baldwin suggested that there are a number of similarities between playing bingo online and getting one's eyes down at a land-based hall. He also indicated that online bingo compliments the traditional form of the game.
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