Founder of Worms maker Team17 in line for £50m windfall

The founder of the Yorkshire-based video games company behind hits such as Worms is set for a £50m windfall from a stockmarket listing valuing the business at up to £230m. Debbie Bestwick, 48, founded Team17 in 1990 and her stake will be worth approximately £100m when the company floats on Aim this month. Bestwick, who received an MBE in 2016 for services to the video games industry, intends to sell up to 50% of her shareholding in the flotation. Bestwick has positioned the Wakefield-based business as a champion of independent games developers. In the "about us" section of Team17's website it describes itself as "a games label created by independent developers for independent developers".