Events

Mango Event Management Ltd is launching a new department to manage growing demand for client entertainment.

Euroleague Basketball and the pan-European sport channel Eurosport 2 have announced a new deal for coverage of the ULEB Cup, starting on November 8, 2005.

English Premier League soccer chiefs look set to put six separate broadcast packages up for grabs when the next rights come to the marketplace.

Ontrack Marketing has been appointed by OKI Printing Solutions to activate their sponsorship of English Premiership side Portsmouth.

IEC in Sports have signed up to distribute the Stella Artois Championships for a further four-year period from 2006-09.

A major decision on the way sports rights are handled in India has sent shockwaves through the industry.

FIFA has launched a public tender process to select and appoint an agent to exploit its media rights in Asia.

BBC Radio Five Live has renewed its radio rights deal with Major League Baseball in the UK for the third successive year.

The London 2012 leader Sebastian Coe is to deliver an exclusive presentation at this year’s Soccerex.

Europe’s top club basketball league has clinched a three season TV deal in Poland.

Investment company MFS has signed up as the new naming rights sponsor of golf’s Australian Open.

Swedish city Gothenburg has won the right to host the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships.

European officials have denied that they ever proposed the FA Premier League would have to insist on no single broadcaster winning the rights to 50 per cent of future games.

Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund has agreed a deal with insurance and finance company Signal Iduna Group for naming rights to its Westfalenstadion stadium.

Editorial director Kevin Roberts reviews some of the issues from the past seven days.

In a bid to bolster its event management expertise, Octagon has promoted Bob Verbeeck to president of global event management.