FRANCE – According to the recent report, the France based Mangas Gaming company has allegedly entered the list of the top five online sports betting companies in Europe after reportedly having taken control of Malta company Expekt. and Austria based operator Bet-at-Home.

Speaking about these acquisitions it is worth saying that Expekt was founded in 1999 and now officially caters for 1.5 million customers providing them with a scope of gaming services such as betting on sport events, online poker, online casino and operating mainly in the Scandinavian and Northern European markets.

As opposite to Expekt, Bet-at-home company has really solid market share in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe also acting as the sports bookie, poker and casino operator.

At present Mangas made an attractive offer to all the shareholders of bet-at-home company to buy their shares at approximately €11.2 per share. The proposed share price reportedly includes a premium of 29% over the single month average share price of bet-at-home and the incredible 52% over the six-month average price per share. As reported by a source in Mangas such offer will be launched on the 11th of March, 2009 and last until the 7th of April, 2009.

According to Mangas CEO Isabelle Parize, the earlier acquisition of Betclic in 2008, the previous week acquisition of Expekt and Bet-at-home go in line with Mangas ambitious plan of setting up a strong interconnected network of online sports betting and gaming services on the European territory.