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Man City Begins $109M Nike Deal By Wearing New Kit On Its U.S. Tour Stops05 / 22 / 13Nike will pay Man City $18.2M annually, as reported in July , "for the next six years and the club will wear the new kit in both games" against Chelsea this week during exhibitions in St. Louis and N.Y. as "part of the two-game brand-building trans-Atlantic trip," according to Mark Ogden of the Lon... Tags: Marketing and Sponsorship, United Kingdom, North America |
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Waitrose To Sponsor England Cricket
The England Cricket team "will be sponsored by U.K. grocery chain Waitrose" for three years starting in '14, according to Bob Bensch of BLOOMBERG. Waitrose, part of John Lewis Partnership Plc, "will have its logo on all England teams' apparel, advertisements on the cricket grounds and access to team ...
U.K. Sees 31K Jobs Created By Olympics
Preliminary government figures revealed that more than 30,000 new jobs "were created last year on the back of the Olympics" as foreign investors poured more than £2.5B ($3.9B) into the U.K., according to Phillip Inman of the London GUARDIAN. British Trade & Investment Minister Stephen Keit ...
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Silverstone Receives $14M For F1 Center
The Heritage Lottery Fund announced Silverstone, the regular home of the British Grand Prix, is to get £9.1M ($14M) of lottery money "to help create a Formula 1 heritage centre," according to Mark Brown of the London GUARDIAN. The scheme at the Northamptonshire track "is one of six major ...
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Alex Ferguson Tributes Pour In
There used to be a joke among the Manchester press corps that the day ManU Manager ALEX FERGUSON quit "we would all meet for a party" and "toast to his departure," according to Matt Dickinson of the LONDON TIMES. We would "remember all the bans, foul tirades, evasions, downright lies and collectiv ...
Manchester United Shares Fall 5%
Shares in ManU fell almost 5% on news of Manager Alex Ferguson’s departure "and continued to fall," according to Graham Hutson of the LONDON TIMES. The club is listed on the N.Y. Stock Exchange and "the share price slide has been seen as a reflection of the lack of confidence investors have wi ...
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ManU Announces Ferguson Retirement
ManU announced Wednesday that Manager Alex Ferguson will retire at the end of the season. Ferguson will step down after the West Brom game on May 19 and join the club's football board. Ferguson said, "The decision to retire is one that I have thought a great deal about and one that I have not taken ...
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Man City To Install Wi-Fi At Etihad
Man City is set to install Wi-Fi delivered by O2 and Cisco for fans at Etihad Stadium. The Wi-Fi is expected to go live at the 47,000-seat stadium sometime in the coming weeks. Man City will additionally offer StadiumVision Mobile to all fans in the future. StadiumVision Mobile is capable of deliver ...
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Twickenham To Host Int'l Rugby Sevens
A new club rugby tournament involving sides from around the world "is to be launched this summer" in a bid to capitalize on the sport's increasing global appeal, according to Robert Kitson of the London GUARDIAN. Super Rugby side Auckland Blues, the Western Province Stormers, the ACT Brumbies and t ...
Badminton England Partners With Adidas
Badminton England announced a new partnership with adidas for the London Grand Prix, part of the Badminton World Federation's Grand Prix Gold event series. The event, which is to take place at the Copper Box on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from Oct. 1-6, is the first major badminton partnership for ...
Chelsea's Mourinho Talks Hit Snag
Chelsea’s negotiations to secure the return of coach José Mourinho "have reached an impasse over their refusal to pay the buyout clause in their former manager’s contract at Real Madrid," according to Matt Hughes of the LONDON TIMES. There "are also concerns at Stamford Bridge ove ...
