SportBusiness Sponsorship staff

The brandRapport agency has been appointed by PrimeLocation.com to manage its ground sponsorship deal covering this summer’s Ashes cricket series between England and Australia.

The Canadian Olympic Committee has announced a four-year partnership, from 2013 to 2016, with sportswear company Adidas.

Allianz has agreed a deal to sponsor the 2013 edition of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships.

News Corporation has handed Team Sky a boost ahead of the start of the Tour de France this weekend by confirming 21st Century Fox as a sponsor of the International Cycling Union (UCI) ProTour outfit.

Pharmaceutical company Actavis is to become the central sponsor of ice hockey’s European Trophy.

US manufacturer Trek Bicycle has stepped up from a sponsorship position to acquire the WorldTour racing licence for leading cycling team RadioShack-Leopard-Trek.

Champagne brand Taittinger has been named as a sponsor of the 2014 Fifa World Cup football tournament in Brazil.

Austrian Bundesliga top-tier football club Wacker Innsbruck has agreed an extension with lead sponsor TIWAG-Tiroler Wasserkraft.

Courts, the largest furniture, appliance and electrical retailer in the Caribbean, has signed up as an official partner of the inaugural Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition.

Tipico has extended its exclusive partnership with German 1.Bundesliga football club Hamburg SV by an additional three years.