Matthew Glendinning

Sports Sponsorship Insider spoke to Chantelle Johnson, global head of marketing for the foreign exchange trading brand Alpari UK about Alpari's global sponsorship strategy.

Sports Sponsorship Insider spoke to Lars Christensen, co-CEO of Saxo Bank, after the announcement that Riis Cycling, the major cycling team which competed this year under the Saxo-Tinkoff name, had been acquired by Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov.

Global prosthetics company Ottobock is close to signing sponsorship deals with at least two more global or regional Paralympic events as it continues to support Paralympic sport at the elite level.

This month’s issue of Sport Sponsorship Insider contains interviews with two of the key commercial figures in world football: Uefa marketing director Guy-Laurent Epstein and Fifa marketing director Thierry W…

New York Road Runners, the body which organises the New York City Marathon, is overhauling its sponsorship structure by reducing the number of partners in its top two sponsorship tiers, signing longer-term deals, and bringing more sponsorship to its other events.

German football’s Bundesliga will earn around €35.55m ($47.6m) from its central sponsorship partners in the 2013-14 season, a 28.3-per-cent increase on the 2012-13 season.

Euroleague Basketball is searching for two brands to take its roster of second-tier Premium Partners to six, and aims to scrap sponsorships previously sold around its season-ending Final Four tournament and Game of the Week broadcast.

The Rugby League World Cup 2013, currently being hosted by England and Wales, will make £2m (€2.4m/$3.2m) to £3m in sponsorship revenue, according to Sports Sponsorship Insider research.

The French football league, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, is planning to create several new sponsorship packages - a title sponsorship, a technology partner, and some regional partners.

The French football federation, the Fédération Française de Football, expects to increase its national team sponsorship revenue by between 10 and 15 per cent in its next cycle, to about €72m ($96.5m) per year, with a host of deals set to be agreed in the coming months.