Hollywood Bowl Group is a British company that runs the Hollywood Bowl branded multi lane ten-pin bowling and Puttstars brand minigolf centres in the UK, and Splitsville bowling in Canada.
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
Foundation as AMF Bowling UK
The United States company AMF Bowling opened its first centre in the United Kingdom in Stamford Hill, North London on 20 January 1960. Between 1967 and 1970, AMF Bowling UK acquired its first 15 centres. After Goldman Sachs purchased AMF Bowling in 1996, the number of centres owned and operated by AMF Bowling in the UK rose in 1997 from 15 to 37. The company then embarked on a program to refurbish the acquired centres.[2]
In 2004 certain shareholders of the British leisure conglomerate,