Rank Group sees the return of high-rolling London visitors after slow start to summer

Rank Group operates the Grosvenor Casinos business (Jane Barlow/PA)

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Rank Group, the FTSE 250 casino operator, is betting on the faster return of high-rolling foreign visitors to London after Covid kept some of its key customers away until later in the summer.

Covid restrictions have kept gamblers from the far east out of the company’s nine London venues, but its middle eastern customers are now coming back, escaping the extreme summer heat at home and providing an important customer base for Rank.