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Entain Publishes ESG Report
Entain Publishes ESG Report.
About this update from Entain Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n 7 June 2023\n Entain plc (\"Entain\", the \"Group\")\n\nEntain Publishes ESG Report\nEntain plc (LSE: ENT), the global sports-betting, gaming and interactive entertainment Group, has today published its 2022-23 ESG report, setting out the Group's approach to and performance on sustainability and ESG related issues.\nSustainability - alongside growth - is one of Entain's two core strategic pillars. The new report details the significant progress the Group has made in implementing its ESG objectives, as set out in its Sustainability Charter which is built around four core principles: an exclusive focus on regulated markets; continuing to take the lead on responsible betting and gaming; best-in-class corporate governance; and investing in our people and local communities.\nThe report also provides a further update from that provided at Entain Sustain, in November 2022, the industry-leading sustainability and ESG-focused event.\nHighlights of the report include:\nAn exclusive focus on regulated markets:\n• 100% of our revenues are from domestically regulated or regulating markets\n• Exited nine markets with no clear path to a safe regulated betting and gaming industry\n• Holding domestic licences in 30 countries and 26 North American markets\nContinuing to take the lead on safer betting and gaming\n• Successful roll-out of our pioneering ARCTM player protection programme outside the UK to 22 international markets\n• Increased UK contributions to Research, Education and Treatment (\"RET\") to 1% of GGY in 2023\n \nPursuing the highest standards of corporate governance\n• Initial findings from our double materiality assessment released\n• 33% of our Board is female\n• Entain published first-ever Board Diversity Policy\n• 15% of the group-wide bonus is based on a safer betting and gaming metric and 5% on a customer metric\n• The Big Six Compliance Programme drove the average completion rate in mandatory employee training to 93% - up from 82% in 2021.\n \nInvest in people and communities\n· C...