Geneva may still bid for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games despite opposition from Switzerland's National Olympic Committee, the Associated Press reports.
The deal includes free-to-air, pay-television and pay-per-view rights and will cover the rights to all of MPS’ 12 Italian clubs, including the top four sides – AC Milan, Internazionale, Juventus a
MasterCard’s study estimated that Vienna, Austria, would enjoy short and long-term gains of more than €100 million for hosting the final and that altogether Sunday's match would generate more than
- The IOC did not issue any new restriction or guidelines to non-rights holders this week.
The cash black hole equates to each of the 5,000,000 travelling fans losing an average of £4.75 in loose change.
Uefa general secretary, David Taylor, told a news conference on Friday that the majority of the revenue will come from television deals and sponsorship.
Euro 2008 chief operating officer Martin Kallen said: "All tickets have been sold. We are obviously trying to stop tickets from being sold on the black market.
This headline amount is in addition to the $866 million the IOC is expected to receive from its TOP sponsors’ programme, plus money from tickets and licensed programmes.
The 'qualified parties' can request the ISO document from TEAM Marketing AG, UEFA's exclusive marketing agent for the exploitation of commercial rights for the events, UEFA said in a statement.
The deal the European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona and the European Athletics Indoor Championships 2009 (Turin) and 2011 (Paris).
Under the deal, a four-year agreement that covers four seasons until 2010-11, Helvetia becomes a commercial partner for the following events:
The deal covers marketing rights for all FIS Alpine World Cups and the FIS World Cup Ski Jumping in Switzerland.
"This is something we have to address," Rogge said. "The purpose of the IOC is to have a common approach to that with all international sports federations and the national Olympic committees.
Two separate public tenders had been launched for FIFA’s hospitality rights for the 2009-2011 period, including the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, and for the 2013-2014 period, including the 2014
The Committee unanimously passed a decision to abandon the principle originally introduced in 2000 of rotating the men's World Cup from continent to continent.
The series of seminars, held over three and a half days, aim to instruct the Delegations of all Applicant Cities in all the technical aspects required to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The IOC said in a statement that the organisation was convinced that the creation of a legal basis for sport in the EU Reform Treaty would ‘better address the needs of sport and provide a sound lega
The new deal extends its existing agreement which runs until 2009. The new contract runs from 2010-2019.
The agency recruited Ed Floydd from the Singapore-based firm to head up its legal team at its headquarters in Geneva.
Graham Preston has replaced Floydd at ESS.
The service will provide basketball fans with scores, news, schedules, and interviews through ‘Nokia Video Center’, which is available on certain Nokia phones.
"We do not want to have anything to do with doping," said Andreas Georgiadis of ISH International Sport Holding AG, which coordinates BMC's sponsorship activities.
"When Mr Valcke first came to FIFA we had equity in the red," said FIFA president Blatter at a press conference in Zurich, reported by Reuters.
The meeting, to be held in Geneva on June 19, is expected to look at legal documents from the Spanish doping scandal, and could lead to a number of riders being banned for the Tour de France, which be
Chief Operating Officer, Martin Kallen, said "we are very much ahead of previous tournaments at the same stage," in an interview with Reuters, as celebrations got underway to mark the year’s countdo
Under the deal, Kia Motors an affiliate of Hyundai, South Korea's largest carmaker, will provide official vehicles to be used during the June 7-29 tournament in Switzerland and Austria.
It extends the brand’s involvement with UEFA; it is already a sponsor of the Champions League.
Highlight, which owns film company Constantin Film, could face competition from German pay-operator Premiere for EM.TV's sports unit.
According to Urs Eberhard, executive vice president of Schweiz Tourismus this “unique partnership” continues a long BVB tradition of good relations with Switzerland.
More than 2.5m ticket requests have been received from 128 countries at the halfway stage of the month-long application phase.
Under the deal it will also sponsor all Short Track Speed Skating Championships and World Cup events from next season until 2010.
Kournikova will appear in two television spots, the first beginning in March, illustrating the brand's product.
Speaking to German magazine Sport-Bild, G14 chief Thomas Kurth said if UEFA and FIFA could reach a compromise, it could be prepared to ditch its complaint it has taken to the European Court of Justice
Sepp Blatter has traditionally kept his salary a tightly-guarded secret, but admitted the seven figure payment for 2006 during an interview with Swiss newspaper Sonntags Zeitung.
Following a UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon, Senes Erzik (Turkey), Geoffrey Thompson (England), Angel María Villar Llona (Spain), and Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder (Germany) were all elected vice-
As an official partner, BenQ has been granted global marketing and sponsorship rights for the product category that includes mobile phones and digital still cameras.
The deal sees the brand become the official timekeeper of the 108-year-old nation-versus-nation competition.
Oris has been a Williams partner since 2003 when it became the team's official watch supplier.
The deal was concluded with the Infront Sports & Media agency, the exclusive commercial partner of the Fédération International de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT), the governing body of both spor
Mango was selected after a competitive pitch process with other leading international agencies.
The decision came following a recent meeting in Malaysia of the federation’s executive board.
Valcke, FIFA’s director of marketing and TV, and colleagues Tom Houseman, Robert Lampman and Stefan Schuster were all shown the door by soccer’s governing body.
The deal includes the pay-rights in Latin American,
German pay-television company Arena TV acquired an exclusive package of pay-TV broadcast rights which includes all events of the FIBT World Cup and the FIBT World Championships for three seasons, effe
According German consultancy group Sport und Markt’s "sponsorship barometer" survey, nearly two thirds of Swiss companies are interested in using the tournament, which will be joint hosted by Switze
The UCI confirmed Christian Varin, a Swiss lawyer, had stepped down as anti-doping services manager to ‘explore new professional horizons’.
News wire services, citing an anonymous source, claimed the confederations want a greater say in the way the game is run, and a dilution of FIFA’s powers.
During the visits the possibility of forming a partnership to run sports management courses as part of FIFA’s “Win in Africa with Africa” initiative was discussed.
The purchase was concluded Friday and is being reviewed by the national Merger Control Authority.
Media Partners, founded in 1995, is one of Europe’s leading sports marketing companies. The
Their bright red, pointy hairstyles mirror the shape of the mountain peaks symbolically depicted in the official UEFA EURO 2008TM logo.
UEFA officially launched the mascot for the 2008 European Championship, a dynamic set of twins, dressed in red and white football strips, the national colours of both the host countries, Austria and Switzerland.
The Super Series will feature 12 tournaments with a minimum of USD $ 200,000 prize money each, running from January - December each year, in England, China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong S.A.R, Indonesia
The International Badminton Federation announced the launch of the Super Series starting 2007.
Exhibitors include A1GP WORLD CUP OF MOTORSPORT, AGFIS, ALCATEL, ALFACAM - EURO1080, ALFRED HABER DISTRIBUTION, INC., BBC WORLDWIDE, EUROPEAN BROADCASTING UNION – EUROVISION, EUROSPORT, FGSPORT, FIG
With more than 2 months to go before the opening of SPORTELMonaco 2006, exhibitors have committed to more than 85% of the expanded floor space in the Grimaldi Forum.
Uefa said it would invite applications for the hospitality contract following the conclusion of the World Cup.
Hospitality in Partnership (HiP), the global events and consultancy operation is to create a consortium to tender for the official corporate hospitality contract for Euro 2008, to be staged in Switzerland and Austria.
Telekom Austria will provide all telecommunications services necessary to Uefa and Euro 2008 before and during the event.
Telekom Austria signed a National Supporter agreement with Uefa, European football’s governing body, for Euro 2008, which will take place in Austria and Switzerland. It will be the tournament’s official telecommunication provider in Austria.
The deal marks the first time the firm, which produces ‘fine arts products and writing instruments’ has entered into a licensing arrangement.
Swiss manufacturer Caran d’Ache has inked a licensing agreement with European soccer’s governing body UEFA and Warner Bros. Consumer Products for a new range of goods bearing the UEFA Euro 2008 trademarks.
The figures released by FIFA agency Infront’s research arm Sponsorship Intelligence, cover the first three days of play.
TV audiences in Europe for the FIFA World Cup look set to beat expectations judging by the initial viewing figures.
Staff have spent the weekend moving into their new offices – with the FIFA Marketing & TV Division shifting from Zug next week.
If you believe there is a fair share of monkey business going on at FIFA headquarters, as of this week you could be right, as soccer’s world governing body settle in to a new HQ just a stone’s throw from Zurich Zoo.
The conference programme features some of the most influential people in world sport.
More than 600 delegates from 57 countries have signed up to attend SportAccord 2006, which takes place at the Grand InterContinental Hotel in Seoul, South Korea on April 3-7.
It gives NASN exclusive rights to televise more than 275 games each season, from Spring Training in March through the playoffs and World Series in October.
NASN and Major League Baseball (MLB) have reached a groundbreaking five-year, pan-European broadcast deal, beginning with the 2006 season.
FIFA agents Infront Sports & Media has signed an exclusive agreement with mobile network operator Swisscom Mobile for mobile broadcast rights covering all 64 matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup for the
For the first time in its 76-year history, the FIFA World Cup will be broadcast live on mobile phones.
On top of more than 7,000 hours of TV coverage scheduled across the Eurovision territories, broadcasters and sub-licensees are providing both live and delayed moving images of the Winter Games over a
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) says it is committed to providing additional content access to sports fans around Europe following record levels of new media coverage for the Winter Olympics.
The IOC says it received a letter from Switzerland withdrawing Lausanne from the race for the 2009 IOC meetings. No reason was given for the decision, reports aroundtherings.com
Lausanne has dropped out of the race for the 2009 IOC Session and Olympic Congress, leaving seven cities in the contest.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) members will make their choice on February 8 – and will be choosing the location for perhaps the most important Olympic meeting in years to come.
The race is hotting up for the right to host the 13th Olympic Congress in 2009, with a decision due at this month’s IOC Session in Torino.
Montreux hosts the draw for the UEFA event which will be jointly staged in Austria and Switzerland in a little over two years’ time.
The draw takes place today for the qualifying rounds of European soccer’s showcase international tournament – Euro 2008 – in Switzerland.
IOC president Jacques Rogge and FIFA president Sepp Blatter will be among those joining UN secretary general, Koffi Annan, for a Special Session on Sport at the 36th Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which
For the first time ever organisers of the World Economic Forum have invited leading figures from sport to discuss issues with political and economic leaders.
The appointment was confirmed by the ticketing sub-committee, comprising representatives of FIFA and the German local organising committee.
Auditing and consulting firm Ernst & Young (Switzerland) will serve as independent external auditors to monitor ticketing for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
The move is designed to deliver greater marketing value as well as increased revenues to invest in the game at all levels.
The (English) Football Association has restructured its partner programme to create a new sponsorship hierarchy.
“We are delighted that one of the world’s most distinguished and established Swiss companies has decided to support our most popular national team competition,” said LarsChrister Olsson, UEFA’
UBS, one of the world’s leading financial firms, has signed the first National Supporter agreement for UEFA EURO 2008 taking place in Austria and Switzerland.
TV2/Danmark A/S, TV2 AS Norway and TV4 AB Sweden have entered agreements with Infront Sports & Media, the exclusive commercial partner of the European Handball Federation (EHF), for their respective t
Deals have been signed with Scandinavian broadcasters for television rights to the men’s and women’s European Handball Championships in 2008 and 2010.
It sees the establishment of a jointly owned and managed company based in Zug. The ‘Organising Committee 2009 IIHF World Championship AG’ will be the official organising committee for the event.
Infront Sports & Media and the Swiss Ice Hockey Association (SIHA) have agreed a strategic co-operation for organisation of the 2009 IIHF World Championship Switzerland.
Football may never be the same again…
Editorial director Kevin Roberts on some of the key issues of the past seven days.
Italy and joint bids from Croatia/Hungary and Poland/Ukraine made the final list, with the decision on the hosts to be made in December 2006.
Uefa has named a shortlist of three candidates to host the European Championship in 2012.
In addition to its work in Formula One, Momentum has activated sponsorship programmes for Coca-Cola in Nascar, Buick in Golf and American Express in tennis.
John Armstrong, the UK's CEO of Momentum, one of the world's biggest sponsorship agencies, will deliver the keynote address on the second day of the Formula One Sponsorship Forum.
Villalonga, the former chairman of TelefC3nica and one of Europe’s most influential business executives, still has close links to Formula One and is very knowledgeable about the sports business.
Juan Villalonga, the man who brought telecommunications giant TelefC3nica into Formula One, will deliver the opening keynote address at the Formula One Sponsorship Forum.
The figure is a 31-percent increase over the EUR177m generated by the previous sponsorship cycle. The majority of this revenue comes from the six main partners as well as individual event sponsors.
UEFA has hailed its EUROTOP commercial programme a runaway success after completing sales in just four months – and pocketing EUR257m in the process.
The management consultancy specialises in sport, offering consulting services to cities and countries and training services for sports organisations.
TSE Consulting, whose headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland, is expanding its operations into Asia and the Middle East.
The management consultancy specialises in sport, offering consulting services to cities and countries and training services for sports organisations.
TSE Consulting, whose headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland, is expanding its operations into Asia and the Middle East.
The new two-year deal regulates the amount of financial compensation due to clubs when players move to the lucrative US league and assures NHL players will take part in the Winter Olympic Games in 200
The Czech Republic has become the latest ice hockey federation to ratify a new transfer agreement between European teams and the NHL.
Its agreement with the NFL runs from the 2005/06 season through the 2008/09 season and includes Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal and Poland.
NASN (the North American Sports Network) has acquired exclusive broadcast rights to the National Football League (NFL) in 17 European countries and shared rights in another four.
Its agreement with the NFL runs from the 2005/06 season through the 2008/09 season and includes Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal and Poland.
NASN (the North American Sports Network) has acquired exclusive broadcast rights to the National Football League (NFL) in 17 European countries and shared rights in another four.
The Formula One Sponsorship Forum will include two keynote conference sessions given by globally recognised industry leaders, with 40 seminars taking place throughout the two-day period chaired by exp
Big names have signed up to the only conference and meeting forum for the business of Formula One and motorsport, to be held in Monaco on November 16-17, 2005.
The deal will see WBCP manage the licensing programme to develop official licensed products and the ever-growing retail licensing operation.
UEFA has appointed Warner Bros Consumer Products (WBCP) its worldwide licensing partner for Euro 2008.
Oswald will lead a 15-strong, multi-national team of men and women
responsible for assisting the London Organising Committee for the
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appointed Denis Oswald aschairman of the Coordination Commission for the London 2012 OlympicGames.
Representatives of ICC Cricket World Cup, the United States Olympic Committee, London 2012, The Football Association and the Croatian Olympic Committee will be among those present.
Delegations from major sports bodies around the world will be among those attending the second International Sports security Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on October 19 and 20.
Giovani Pulce, head of security for TOROC, the organising committee for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, and Vassilios Konstandinos, head of the Greek police security operation for the Athens Olympic Ga
The second International Sports Security Summit is set to field the strongest line-up of speakers ever assembled to discuss this increasingly important subject..
The forum, backed by Formula One Management, is a conference as well as a meeting place for all of Formula One’s stakeholders to network, debate and close deals.
The Formula One Sponsorship Forum is attracting registrations from key industry personnel ahead of the event on November 16 and 17, 2005.
Failure to reach an agreement could affect the availability of NHL players at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin next year.
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has set a Monday deadline for officials from Russia and the Czech Republic to give a final reply to the proposed National Hockey League transfer agreement.
They join 16 other countries already signed up the 'World Cup of Motorsport'.
France, Switzerland and the USA are the three latest signings to the new A1 Grand Prix motor racing series.
The 32,000-seater stadium will be home to Swiss club Young Boys and will also be used for international matches.
The stade de Suisse Wankdorf , Berne opens on Sunday after a $270 million rebuild which will enable it to stage games during the Euro 2008 championship, co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria.
Bids from Azerbaijan, Romania and Russia which were submitted by the initial deadline were not followed through by Thursday's final deadline.
UEFA have received five bids to host the European soccer championship in 2012. They comprise joint bids from Croatia-Hungary and Poland-Ukraine and single bids from Greece, Italy and Turkey.
Prosecutors in Munich raided 15 locations in Germany and Switzerland last week to investigate whether Andreas von Zitzewitz received bribes from a marketing agency between 2002 and 2004.
The head of German microchip firm Infineon Technologies has resigned on suspicion of having accepted bribes in connection with motorsports sponsorships.
International Sport Security Summit 2005 will be staged at the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland on October 19 and 20.
Sector leading security systems manufacturers Siemens and Bosch will be among the exhibitors when the $6billion-a-year sports security sector meets for the second International Sport Security Summit.
It has gathered an array of top golfers around the brand to create The AP Golf Ambassador Team.
Watchmaker Audemars Piguet has reinforced its commitment to golf and sailing by creating its own unique event.
It will take place at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland on October 19 to 20, 2005.
Peter Ryan, the mastermind behind the security operations at the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games, will deliver the opening keynote address at the second International Sports Security Summit.
Payne, the highly experienced and respected sports marketing professional, is best known for his 21 years with the International Olympic Committee.
Totals Sports Asia Ltd has confirmed that Michael Payne of Formula One Management will be one of the key speakers at their forthcoming Sports Xchange forum at the Hyatt Hotel in Singapore on July 4, 2005.
He was featured in the May issue of SportBusiness International and has spent more than 20 years with CCTV, recently being invited to become chief operations officer for the Beijing Olympics Broadcast
Ma Guo Li, president of CCTV Sports, has been confirmed as a headline speaker at Sport Xchange to be held in Singapore on July 4.
Building on the success of the inaugural event in London last year, The International Sports Security Summit ’05 will be the world’s leading forum for discussion and information sharing among all
The second International Sports Security Summit will be held at the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland from October 19 to 20, 2005.
The first meeting took place yesterday at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
Soccer’s European governing body, UEFA, has held the first meeting of a working group set up to address concerns over the role of agents in the game.
It has agreed various deals, mainly in soccer, via its German-based sponsorship consulting agency SMI Sport & Entertainment, Hamburg.
HC6rmann KG, Steinhagen (Germany), a leading European manufacturer of construction elements, has strengthened its commitment to sport sponsorship across the continent.
Speaking after a round table discussion co-hosted by the United Nations and the French sports magazine L’Equipe in Geneva, Mr Mani said that sports governing bodies had an important role to play in
ICC President Ehsan Mani has supported a call from Adolf Ogi, the former President of Switzerland and current United Nations Special Advisor of the Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace, for the international sports community to work together to address humanitarian issues.
The GOLF4D Charity Challenge 2005 is mainly a web platform that gives points according to the slope rating and a golfer’s score on any particular day.
A golf event running on the web gives golfers of all ages and categories the chance to participate in aid of charity.
