BHB RESPONDS TO BOOKMAKERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT OF LEVY OFFER

19 Oct 1999 Pre-2014 Releases

Responding to today’s announcement by the Bookmakers’ Committee of the offer it has put forward for consideration by the Levy Board tomorrow, BHB Chief Executive, Tristram Ricketts, said:
“”With negotiations due to begin at the Levy Board tomorrow, it is regrettable and highly inappropriate that the Bookmakers’ Committee should choose to make its offer public and then seek to justify it at a press conference.
“”When news of the bookmakers’ offer was first leaked, the Chairman made the BHB’s position clear. We have consistently said we believe the negotiations should properly be conducted in private and we have nothing to add to the Chairman’s earlier statement.””