Matthew Glendinning

The world’s fourth-largest general-purpose card network uses sponsorship of major sports properties in the US to provide its card members with ticket offers and money-can’t-buy experiences.

At the start of the Women's Euro 2017 finals, Sports Sponsorship Insider spoke to Mark Bullingham, the Football Association’s group commercial and marketing director, and Katie Brazier, the FA’s head of women's leagues and competitions, about the commercial opportunities in the women’s game. 

A round-up of the key sponsorship deals signed around the world

Swiss watch manufacturer Rolex has taken over the title rights to the Paris Masters men’s tennis tournament from French bank BNP Paribas in a change of roles for two of the biggest sponsors in French tennis.

Payment services brand American Express has signed an extension to its marketing partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA), continuing as the Official Card of the NBA, WNBA and the NBA G League, the official minor league organisation, from 2017-18.

Premier League club Arsenal last month agreed a deal with Hollywood film studio Universal Pictures to promote a number of Universal’s new releases, including Despicable Me 3, which launched in North America and the UK on June 30.

Volvo Car Group and Volvo Group work together in a joint venture on the Volvo Ocean Race but operate separate sponsorship platforms with some other sporting properties

Telecommunications company Vodafone hands responsibility to its national and regional marketers to identify which sports properties best fit the brand's ambitions in the territories in which it operates

US consumer foods group General Mills launched its new Lawn Tennis Association-endorsed Nature Valley protein bar on the day that Andy Murray crashed out of the Aegon Championship at the Queen’s Club in London. But tennis is a long-term play for the group.

Telecommunications company Vodafone New Zealand signed as a Regional Partner of New Zealand Rugby (NZR) for four years, from 2017 to 2021, in a cash and technology services deal.