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ByRebecca Marston
Business reporter, BBC News

Denise Coates, the billionaire employer of Bet365, added another ₤ 323m to her wealth today after the business her household established acquired another year of substantial earnings.

She's been called the UK's most successful woman, with a fortune that Forbes magazine puts in the region of ₤ 9.3 bn.

Most noticeably, she has actually made that mostly herself.

Bet365 is Stoke-on-Trent's largest economic sector company, with more than 4,600 personnel. It uses its millions of worldwide customers sports betting, poker, gambling establishment, video games and bingo. The firm had a ₤ 3bn turnover in the year to the end of March and a profit before tax of ₤ 791m.

Ms Coates' bro John is joint chief executive and her daddy Peter is the firm's chairman, but Denise Coates owns half the company and there's no doubt the success is largely hers.

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Serious bettors tend to have a "system", an allegedly sure-fire approach that will keep on bringing benefits. So what's her "system"?

Go back to the 1990s and there aren't lots of who would have bet on the small family-run chain of local betting stores growing to such a size.

A lot is down to her mathematical talent, which was impressive from an early age. David Owen taught her at secondary school in the 1980s.

"She got everything right, just asked pertinent concerns and was angelically acted. She was plainly off the scale. If we were talking Mensa, she 'd remain in the top 1%," he told the BBC.

'More girls'

She accomplished a top-notch degree in econometrics and trained as an accounting professional within the company, constructing further on the understanding of the little chain that she chose up while working part-time during high school.

As well as a very eager eye for figures - the yohaig code heart of any successful bookmaker - she is also a moderniser.

Among her associates, Debbie Tatton, informed the BBC: "When Denise came, she desired a closer relationship in between the staff and the consumers. We ended up being a lot more expert, a lot more customer-focused. A great deal of younger people began coming in, as well as a lot more ladies."

In 2000, Ms Coates upped the stakes and convinced the family to mortgage the organization to permit them to develop new software application.

Her bro says she became focused on the potential for online gaming and ended up being a pioneer in that company.

Establishing head office in a short-term structure in a parking area, Ms Coates called it the ultimate gamble, buying the domain Bet365.com so that she might drive business because instructions.

'Innate knowledge'

"She's highly intelligent and very identified," states Warwick Bartlett, from global wagering and gaming specialists GBGC.

"She is likewise efficient in taking a look at the big photo. Betfair was the innovator in in-play betting, however she was generally the very first to harness mobile innovation, identifying that bettors anywhere would have the ability to bet on sporting events."

A substantial 70% of income now comes through banking on tablets and phones.

She is helped, Mr Bartlett says, by the fact that she, uniquely, actually understands the industry. "The Coates household are third-generation bookies. They have discovered business from moms and dads and grandparents.

"She has a natural understanding of what the gambler is looking for. A great deal of the business nowadays have supervisors that might have originated from [other sectors] They are professional supervisors who attempt to use their understanding got from offering beans or margarines."

Ad controversy

Mr Bartlett states close knowledge of another company has assisted with the in-play football income: Bet365 owns local club Stoke City.

"Owning a football club provided them an insight into the method the Premier League worked. Stoke City, not so effective itself, has actually played teams that really are," he states.

"On top of the contact with the experts they benefit from protection through the sponsorship of the team. Bet365 has fantastic exposure every time Stoke are featured."

Ms Coates' dad is chairman of Stoke and has a higher public profile than she does.

But the name best connected with Bet365 is, obviously, Ray Winstone, whose gravelly tones used to prompt punters to "wager in play - NOW!" before the advertisements were pulled.

Again, Warwick Bartlett states, Ms Coates got it right. "Using Ray validates my point about 365, they understand their consumers. He's a middle-aged guy and a little bit of a geezer.

"Cleverly, Bet365 use comparable types to attract their consumers in other markets. In Australia, it's Samuel L Jackson - he encounters in the advert as an extremely cool guy."

Bet365 continues to keep one action ahead. It's moving into the US as the market there opens.

But while Denise Coates' business brain thinks international, she herself is most likely to remain rooted in Stoke.

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