World Gaming floats at the London AIM

This week saw the listing on the London AIM stock market of World Gaming plc, which went public under the symbol WGP. The company has raised a total of GBP 2,499,000 at 52.5 pence (US$1.00) per share.

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Fri, May 20th, 2005

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