[1] An extension of the Mecca Bingo brand includes meccabingo.com and a number of online game stations.

[5] In 2007, Mecca Bingo and its parent company suffered significant losses, attributed to the implementation of the smoking ban in Britain.

[9] In 1997, members of the Muslim community in Luton, Bedfordshire were dissatisfied with the renaming of a local bingo hall under the Mecca Bingo brand, whose name is phonetically identical with Mecca, the holiest city of Islam, a religion in which gambling is not permitted.

On Christmas Day that year, bricks were thrown through the bingo hall's windows, causing £3000 of damage.

In December 2015, Mecca Bingo was ordered to forfeit nearly £1 million after allowing a woman to spend up to £50,000 a month on her gambling addiction.

[13] It won the same award in 2014 and 2015, with the Rank Group also winning "Socially Responsible Operator of the Year (Land Based)".