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Chocolate producer Cadbury has become a multi-million pound sponsor of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
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Investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DKW) has distributed a research note claiming that Manchester United plc has been the subject of bid speculation.

English Premier League soccer club Arsenal plans to float on the London Stock Exchange to raise money to build a new 60,000-capacity stadium.

English soccer club Crystal Palace is trying to establish a partnership with Walt Disney World to become the entertainment giant's official football club.

The Football Association and the British Olympic Association are set for more discussions about entering a British football team in the Olympic Games.

English Premier League football club, Everton has appointed its first direct marketing agency, Huet & Company, with the aim of boosting the club?s fan database by over 140,000 names.

Hockey?s governing body, the Federation Internationale de Hockey, has launched its new website.

The new structure of the Celtic Rugby League has been agreed by the Welsh, Irish and Scottish Rugby Unions.

The Scottish Football Association (SFA) has taken another step towards bidding to host the 2008 European soccer championships with the publication on Wednesday of a feasibility study.

Former CART CEO Andrew Craig has entered the race to buy up the research arm of the bankrupt ISMM Group, sportbusiness.com can exclusively reveal.

Sponsoring the shirts of an international soccer team would cost about $50m, sports sponsorship consultants have told sportbusiness.com.

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone has given the go-ahead to UK Premier League soccer club Arsenal?s new stadium proposals at Ashburton Grove in Highbury, London.

The English Cricket Board (ECB) has denied accusations from Jim Cumbes, the Lancashire Cricket Club chief executive, that it is to blame for the lack of ticket sales for the second npower Test match against Pakistan, which starts tomorrow at the club?s Old Trafford ground in Manchester.

The 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia is using two innovative software systems to help it manage the thousands of staff, volunteers, athletes and pieces of equipment needed to deliver the Games.

The share prices of two English soccer clubs showed contrasting fortunes after the clubs experienced both joy and despair in their First Division play-off clash at Cardiff?s Millennium Stadium.

Sportsworld Media, the London-based sports marketing group, has said it would like to recruit some Asian clients from bankrupt marketing group ISL Worldwide.