Sponsorship & Marketing
Sponsorship & Marketing

NHL team the Edmonton Oilers have appointed a new president and chief executive officer.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Argentina's River Plate soccer team plans to open the club's marketing operations to a third party as part of a controversial plan to shore up and modernise its business.
Events

The Guby Network, an internet platform formed by the union of Latin America's top search engines, has signed Todosport, the online sports marketing firm targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking sports enthusiasts, as its exclusive provider of the latest in sports-related news and information.
Business

Sportswear firm adidas is denying accusations of ambush marketing ? despite stepping up its Olympic-based advertising campaign in Australia.
Sponsorship & Marketing

The marketing rights for Italian Serie A soccer club AS Roma has been sold to Havas Advertising Sports.
Sponsorship & Marketing

A multi-million dollar redevelopment of a UK racetrack to bring it up to speed to stage the British Formula One Grand Prix, has won approval from local councillors.
Events

CART has teamed up with the SFX Sports Group for the negotiation of television rights to its FedEx Championship Series.
Business

3M has confirmed it will be the title sponsor of Randy MacDonald's No. 72 Chevrolet through the remaining races of the 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
Sponsorship & Marketing

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
Business

Entertainment specialist Haymarket Advertising, the media arm of Global Entertainment Media, has completed a merger with North American entertainment agency Echo Advertising + Marketing - a move which will consolidate the companies? sports client interests.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Peter Robinson, former Executive Vice Chairman at Liverpool Football Club, is to join sports marketing agency ISM as Head of UK Operations
Business

Latin America's soccer champion, Argentina's Boca Juniors, is in talks to contract out its marketing operations to ISL.
Business

Formula One team chief Frank Williams said he has joined other team bosses in fighting to prevent Brands Hatch obtaining planning permission which would enable it to host the British Grand Prix.
Business

Barry Snellgrove has joined John Taylor International, the sports sponsorship consultancy, as business development director to head up the agency's new business drive.
Business

Taxpayer-financed sports stadiums lower per per-capita incomes in their areas ? according to a study carried out by two US academics.
Business

Worldzap, the joint venture between Prisma iVentures and The Fantastic Corporation has added three key executives to its management team.
Events

Havas Advertising and Transiciel have set up an online sports marketing agency specialising in developing web sites for sports events, clubs and sporting associations.
Sponsorship & Marketing

SportsYa!, the Spanish and Portuguese-language internet sports portal, has sponsored the first Hispanic-owned and driven racing car team in NASCAR?s 50-year history.