Stoke Holding SA is a company created in 1999 headed by Icelandic businessman

Gunnar Gíslason Gunnar Gíslason (born 4 January 1961) is an Icelandic former footballer who played as a defender. Club career Gíslason started his career at KA Akureyri before moving abroad to play in Germany, Norway and Sweden Sweden, form ...

, Halldór Birgisson, Stefán Geir Þórisson and Magnus Kristinsson.The company is based in

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small land ...

, and financed by an Icelandic bank. The company purchased 70% of the shares in Stoke City Football Club from

Peter Coates Peter Coates (born 13 January 1938) is an English businessman, the co-founder of bet365, and the chairman of Stoke City Football Club. He has been listed as the 25th-richest person in British football. He founded Stadia Catering in the 1960s an ...

in 1999 for a fee of £3.5m. 10% of these shares were then sold to businessman Phil Rawlins. On 5 May 2006, the company sold their shares in the club back to

for £1.7 million.

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{{reflist Stoke City F.C. 1999 establishments in Luxembourg Companies established in 1999