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Articles in Dec, 2008 issue of Leisure Report

• Room to grow for EU fitness
• 888 grows despite poker slowdown
• Ladbrokes improves gross win margins
• Shareholders should now look closely at executive remuneration
• Public finances decline further
• SHOKK opens first franchise
• Leisure sector takes a hit as firms cut back on staff entertainment
• 10,000 visitors to people 1st website
• Recession will push jobless up to 3 million
• Consumer inflation falls
• Eurozone in recession
• Online moonshine: post UIGEA, operators withdrew from the US online poker market in droves, but some firms continue to allow US citizens to play poker. Robert Haukoos asks: is this the ultimate gamble?
  by Robert Haukoos
• VAT aerobics: now is the time to get your business in shape for the winter ahead, writes BDO Stoy Hayward's Jim Pinder, who suggests a number of exercise that could help firm up your bottom line
  by Jim Pinder
• Surviving the credit crunch: Richard Hathaway, head of travel, leisure and tourism, KPMG, says that despite the cyclical nature of many leisure firms, 'slash and burn' measures are not called for in the downturn
  by Richard Hathaway
• Poker shows signs of folding but diversification keeps Party going
• Webis in sponsor deal
• Highfield joins Hills
• Operators beat monopolies on reponsibility
• Rank receives 59.1m [pounds sterling] VAT repayment
• Inspired encouraged by progress in wake of pub division sale
• Harpers to roll out 'Experience'
• TLDC signs contract to supply Sport England with active data
• Esporta deal off
• Gladstone rejects hostile takeover bid from shareholder
• VisitBritain calls for spring investment
• Recession to cost 11bn [pounds sterling] in tourism
• Passenger numbers fall at UK airports
• Drug testing machine trialled in Scotland
• 10m [pounds sterling] visitor centre development plan for Sherwood Forest unveiled
• UK branded coffee market still offers potential for 6 % growth
• Alcohol tax rises
• LR Index leisure stockwatch November 2008
• Alton Towers Resort
• The National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure
• European gaming deadlock: an end in sight?
• BISL urges restraint on NMW
• Corporate clubs disemb-ARK
• FSB seeks 1bn [pounds sterling] survival fund
• A bull with a sore head: Duncan Rowe talks to Craig Baylis from Berwin Leighton Paisner about dealmaking in the credit crunch, the Licensing and Gambling Acts, and regulation of the poker market
  by Duncan Rowe
• Variations on a theme park: Gabrielle Gambina, senior associate, and Elizabeth Hillier, junior consultant in the Hotels & Leisure team at King Sturge look at the state of play in the international theme park market
  by Gabrielle Gambina
• NMLS raises funds via placing to drive marketing
• 3D plans to sell third of estate
• SIA chief to leave post as 17.4m [pounds sterling] deficit is discovered
• PD to open new club
• Scotland's G1 lifts profits
• Planning blow for Donington
• Abbycroft invests in sites
• Coffee Republic aims for 800,000 [pounds sterling]
• Leisure Connection
• Matrix Fitness
• So long, and thanks for all the fish
  by Duncan Rowe
• Irish trade tougher for Paddy Power
• UK services sector hits record low
• Fit to govern: Barack Obama will be the first self-confessed gym addict to occupy the White House. David Minton asks if he can help shape a nation, and get it in shape
  by David Minton
• NETeller now Neovia
• Amazing grace?
• Turftrax close to administration
• Attraction World adds products
• Britons plan to cut back on going out for this year's Christmas break
• 'Unusual' Kino Cinema is sold
• Rock n' Bowl venue for Bloomsbury
• New gyms for Forest of Dean
• Rotherham PFI continues progress
• Dalesauna improves accessibility
• Coffeeheaven sees sales rise as its markets avoid the crunch
• Subway set to benefit from the downturn
• Mandelson launches tips consultation
• DCMS
• East Midlands Development Agency
• Diary dates: Dec/Jan
• BISL lauds private sector for sports participation role
• Lo-Q proves just the ticket