Bookmaker Paddy Power’s advertising antics during this summer’s Euro 2012 football tournament were today rewarded with a 21% hike in half-year profits.
The bookie took €78m in bets on Euro 2012 alone, helped by PR stunts such as its 100ft high statue modelled on Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer with England manager Roy Hodgson’s face.
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