Sports Authority

Atletico Madrid will promote Baku’s hosting of the inaugural European Games in 2015 as part of the Spanish Liga football club’s commercial partnership with Azerbaijan’s tourism authority.

Three new sponsors have been added to the roster of this year’s Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup in Tahiti.

German golf club VcG has agreed to become an official sponsor of the Solheim Cup women’s golf event, which is scheduled to take place in the country for the first time in 2015.

EXPERIENTIAL vs HOSPITALITY: At event, experiential marketing and hospitality programmes will figure even more strongly in sponsorship activation over the coming period, according to sports industry respondents…

AMID THE doom-laden headlines about the end of Europe as we know it business is quietly getting on with, err, business. And a good thing too, as it’s overwhelmingly business that invests in sports marketing.