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Suppliers signals
Vertical: every BrandCapitalWorks iGaming signal tagged Suppliers. Each one carries the fact, the enterprise-value read, and the forecast. 6 signals.
Platform supplier GiG spent €16.4M buying an operator. Its own revenue fell the week before.
GiG agreed to buy 80% of 888AFRICA from evoke on 26 August, eight days after reporting that its platform revenue had fallen again. A supplier on a 9% margin is buying the player relationship. On 26 August 2026 GiG Software agreed to acquire 80% of 888AFRICA from Virtual Emerging Entertainment Limited, a subsidiary of evoke plc, for €16.4M: €6M on completion and €10.4M deferred. The founders keep 20% and stay in management. GiG is funding it with a directed share issue and convertible loans. It guides to combined full-year revenue of €44M to €48M and adjusted EBITDA of €5M to €7M, assuming 888AFRICA contributes for the fourth quarter only. Eight days earlier it reported second-quarter revenue of €8.8M, down 5% year on year, with adjusted EBITDA of €0.8M at a 9% margin.
Kambi doubled its profit on an AI trading engine, and investors repriced the capability.
A record World Cup ran through Kambi’s automated trading at an 18% margin. Profit doubled, guidance rose, and the re-rating followed the capability. Kambi reported Q2 on 22 July. Revenue rose 13.5% to €45.9M and adjusted profit more than doubled to €7.6M. The engine did the work. Its AI trading system handled over 100 million World Cup bets at an 18% operator margin, and the Americas supplied 57% of that World Cup turnover, up from 38% four years ago.
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Evolution kept its margins and still got marked down. The story slipped.
Reported revenue fell 1.2%. At constant currency it grew 2.4%, and the Galaxy deal is now in doubt. Evolution reported Q2 2026 revenue of €517.8M, down 1.2% on last year as reported but up 2.4% once you strip out currency swings, just short of the €520M the market expected. Profit (EBITDA) was €341.0M, a 65.9% margin. Its planned Galaxy Gaming purchase, already delayed to 17 July 2026, is now in doubt. Growth in the Americas keeps making up for a soft Europe.
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A top-ten supplier rebranded to charge more. Now it has to make it stick.
SOFTSWISS moved from software provider to growth partner on 1 July. The claim is made. Whether operators pay for it is a different question. SOFTSWISS changed its pitch and its look on 1 July 2026. It went from calling itself a software provider to a growth partner, and gave someone the title of Chief AI Officer so reliability and AI move together. It showed the new identity to partners in person at iGB L!VE London on 6 July, an event built around operators wanting suppliers to add performance rather than just supply a service.
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Apollo’s IGT still tells three stories. Buyers pay for one.
The $6.3B take-private closed twelve months ago. The combined company still tells three stories, and the exit clock has started. Apollo closed its $6.3B all-cash deal for IGT’s Gaming and Digital business and Everi on 1 July 2025. Everi shareholders were paid $14.25 a share, a 56% premium, and the stock was taken off the market. The combined company now runs privately as IGT, out of Las Vegas, in three parts: Gaming, Digital and FinTech. Hector Fernandez, formerly of Aristocrat Gaming, became CEO in late 2025.
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Same quarter, opposite results: Playtech rose, Evolution fell. Where you sell decided it.
UK duty doubled to 40% in April. Two suppliers in that environment posted opposite results. Playtech’s half-year update on 13 July came in well ahead of expectations, driven by the US plus strength in Mexico, Colombia and parts of Europe. It guided first-half profit above €155M and raised the full-year figure toward €270M. This lands in the same period the UK doubled its online gaming tax from 21% to 40%, on 1 April 2026, hitting about 310 firms.
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