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With 90 days to go before Campus 07, SportBusiness has signed up over 90 leading speakers to address the conference in April with new presenters confirming all the time.

With unprecedented demand for the Soccerex London Forum 2007, a get together and conference for 1000 of the most influential leaders in world football, Soccerex and Wembley have decided to move the date of the event to 9th May 2007.

The total value of the media and TV rights packages for the English Premier League for the three years from the start of the 2007-08 season is a staggering £2.7 billion.

The IMG agency formally announced the acquisition of the CSI Sports group of companies from CSI Sports’ management team.

The starting line up of speakers has been announced for this year’s UK Trade and Investment’s Partnership Excellence in Global Sport Conference. Following on from last year’s success the conference looks set to smash all expectations with an exclusive range of speakers from organising and bidding cites all over the world. The line up includes:

‘Halligan will examine the issues and challenges faced by his team and the strategic, managerial and operational solutions adopted in the high- pressure environment of match day at the home of one of the biggest names in sport.’

The former executive director of the European Tour, Ken Schofield, has been named to head up an independent strategic planning committee set-up to improve England’s cricket fortunes.

UK satellite and digital channel Sky Sports has extended its coverage contract of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)’s Premier League Darts until the end of 2010.

The British Olympic Association (BOA) and Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) agreed to extend the close links between the two organisations in the period running up to the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The British & Irish Lions appointed Accelerate as its exclusive commercial broker and sponsorship managers for the 2009 tour to South Africa.

The English Football Association is expected to bring in over £400 million for its new TV rights deal because all of the commercial broadcasters, including ITV, NTL and Five, are interested in the rights.

London brewer Fuller Smith & Turner P.L.C signed a three-year agreement for London Pride to be the official beer of the Flora London Marathon from 2007.

English Premier League club Portsmouth Football Club and OKI Printing Solutions agreed an extension to their shirt sponsorship agreement until June 2009.

With less than three weeks to go, Legacy Lives 2007 features an impressive programme of conference papers from leading worldwide officials, including:

The speaker roster for the upcoming International Sports Security Summit goes from strength-to-strength with the addition of one of the USA’s best respected sports security specialists.

Petroleum company BP and telecoms company BT are reported to be close to being named as the next two big corporate sponsors of the 2012 London Olympic Games.