Ten Entertainment Group, which runs the Tenpin bowling chain, has reported record turnover of £159.9 million, according to Propel. The same figures show the group paid £39.9 million for Fairgame, the competitive socialising brand it bought in December 2025 without disclosing a price at the time.
Ten Entertainment Group left the stock market after Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital announced its take-private on 6 February 2024. At that point, the group operated 53 centres across the UK.
By December 2025, when it bought Fairgame, the Tenpin estate had reached 58 centres. Propel published the turnover and the Fairgame price on 24 September 2026. No statement of its own from the group on these figures had been found at the time of writing.
Turnover up by more than a quarter since 2022
The last full-year results the group published as a listed company, in March 2023, showed turnover of £126.7 million for the 53 weeks to 1 January 2023, from 49 centres. The new figure is around 26% higher, although the two periods are not identical in length. Over the same stretch, the estate grew by nine centres, from 49 to 58. The public part of Propel’s report does not give the financial year covered, the profit figure or the split between bowling and Fairgame.
Five of those nine centres were added after the change of ownership, taking the estate from 53 at the take-private announcement in February 2024 to 58 at the time of the Fairgame deal iTenpin owner Ten Entertainment reports record £159.9 million turnover December 2025. By December 2025 the chain had more than 1,000 bowling lanes, according to the trade title Amusements and Attractions. The group has not published how many of those centres were new builds and how many were takeovers of existing bowling sites, a distinction that changes the cost base either way, as what it costs to open a franchise in the UK sets out.
Fairgame gives Tenpin a second format
Fairgame, founded in 2019 by Richard Hilton, combines fairground games run on its own technology with food and drink. It had two London venues when Tenpin bought it, at St Paul’s and Canary Wharf, a competitive socialising segment where several brands in the leisure category expand through franchised operators instead. The deal announced on 2 December 2025 gave no price, which makes the £39.9 million now reported the first public figure.
Shravan Thadani, partner at Trive Capital, said at the time: “Fairgame is a category-defining concept in competitive socializing.” Hilton, the brand’s co-founder, said the tie-up “opens the door to rapid, ambitious growth”. Fairgame’s backers before the sale included the investment firm BGF, whose investor Chris Jones congratulated the founders on the deal.
A change at the top of the holding company
The figures follow a change on the board. Companies House shows that Graham Blackwell, who was chief executive when Trive announced the take-private, stepped down as a director of TEG Holdings Ltd on 5 March 2026. Mark Simon Willis had joined that board on 19 August 2025.
No opening plan for either brand has been found in the group’s own announcements since the Fairgame deal. The full accounts behind Propel’s figures are the next document to show whether the record turnover also carried through to profit. Leisure brands that expand through independent operators rather than their own capital can be compared across the UK franchise directory.
