Kindred Group to open a trio of new offices
Operator reveals plans to relocate staff into new office buildings in the UK, Gibraltar and Malta
Kindred Group is set to open three new offices in London, Gibraltar and Malta to aid the operator’s aggressive expansion plans, its CEO Henrik Tjärnström announced today.
The Stockholm-listed operator will relocate staff from its three current hubs to new office buildings during 2017, with staffers in its Gibraltar base scheduled to be the first to make the move.
The relocation will see Kindred move from the company’s office in Marina Bay Square – which it took over after acquiring Stan James in October 2015 – next door into the new World Trade Center building.
Other Gibraltar-based gaming firms are set to follow Kindred into the newly-built office complex.
Tjärnström also revealed this morning that Kindred planned to move to a more spacious office across the road from its current UK-base in Wimbledon Bridge House, London.
“It will be Kindred-only in that building, so that gives us a really good opportunity to make sure the employee experience there is optimum,” Tjärnström told EGR Intel.
“We will be spread out on more floors than we are today and we are working actively with developers to make sure it has the best possible interaction between the different areas and that the office has the best flow and logistics.”
Tjärnström claimed the operator was happy to remain outside of central London and in south-west London for the foreseeable future. “A lot of our employees have built their lives around the Wimbledon area, which is very important,” he said.
“We have been there for a number of years and the logic was to stay close to that as well. It is also slightly on the outskirts of the expensive rent areas, so it makes sense from that point of view as well.”
In addition to new offices in London and Gibraltar, Kindred Group will take up three floors in a brand new building located in Malta.
The decision to relocate its UK, Gibraltar and Malta hubs come after the operator last summer moved its Australia-facing business into a new office in Sydney’s Central Business District.
Kindred had previously been located approximately one hour north of Sydney in Baulkham Hills, where it had been located since it acquired Betchoice in 2012.
Today’s news comes after Kindred Group this morning reported a 54% year-on-year rise in 2016 gross winnings revenue despite being up against “tough comparables” in 2015.
According to today’s report, Kindred Group had 1,162 employees as of 31 December 2016, up from 1,038 the previous year.