For London 2012 a marketing firm is both service provider and client May 15, 2012 COUNTDOWN TO THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES 72 DAYS TO GO Q What was your brand’s primary reason for being involved with the Games? A The task of marketing the London Olympic Games has been described as the biggest assignment in UK marketing history. For a group of agencies to collectively and collaboratively be able [...]
Providing the intelligence behind the 2012 London Olympic Games May 8, 2012 COUNTDOWN TO THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES 79 DAYS TO GO Q What was your brand’s primary reason for being involved with the Games? A London 2012 offers us a great platform to demonstrate how Nielsen provides information and insights to organisations to give them a comprehensive understanding of global consumers and markets. In addition [...]
Fail to manage airport queues and see Britain’s future growth depart May 2, 2012 HEATHROW’S immigration queue crisis is already a national embarrassment, but the true scale of the damage it is doing has yet to be recognised. Inevitably, the coverage so far has focused on the Olympics. With hundreds of thousands of extra tourists flooding into the capital, and the attention of the world’s media and sporting establishments [...]
RAPID responses May 2, 2012 Fresh appeal [Re: Why Boris Johnson is by far the best choice for Londoners, yesterday] It’s good to see support for a candidate on the basis on his character, the worth of his policies, and how those coincide with the nature of London itself. There’s no better example of how directly-elected mayors can rejuvenate politics [...]
Perform is driving ahead with with revenues jumping by 45pc May 1, 2012 SPORTS rights company Perform said it expected strong profit growth this year after reporting first quarter revenues that rose 45 per cent. “We are very pleased with the momentum in the core business and are looking forward to posting another year of strong revenue and Ebitda growth,” joint chief executive Oliver Slipper said. The company, [...]
BEST of the BROKERS May 1, 2012 AB INBEV Liberum Capital has maintained its “buy” rating on the brewer and raised its target price from €63 to €68 following its quarterly update this week. The broker says it was encouraged by the expansion in the company’s gross margin – up 200bp globally and 450bp in North America. It says the most important [...]
Sports Direct raises Ashley’s payout plans April 25, 2012 MIKE Ashley, the billionaire founder of Sports Direct, could net a one-off shares bonus worth about £24m at current prices after Britain’s biggest sporting goods retailer raised a proposed payout. Sports Direct said yesterday it would ask shareholders at its annual meeting in September to back the granting of 8m shares to Ashley, up from [...]
F1 owners set deadline for flotation pitch April 10, 2012 CVC Capital Partners has set a Friday deadline for banks hoping to play a role in Formula One’s Singapore IPO, sources said yesterday, in a sign that the process for the roughly $1.5bn IPO is formally under way, with plans for a July listing. Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone said last month that he had [...]
All-new Swift Sport ups the fun April 10, 2012 Unless you’re of the age group that wore Frankie Says T-Shirts and espadrilles back in the 80s whilst tooling about in a Suzuki 4×4 with a Rhino logo on the tyre cover, then you’re more likely to associate the Suzuki brand name with motorcycles than motorcars. Although Suzuki has sold 6,000 Suzuki Swift Sports since [...]
Ex-chief of JJB charged amid £1m fraud case April 4, 2012 THE former chief executive of JJB Sports, Chris Ronnie, has been charged after a two and a half year probe into an alleged £1m fraud. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) yesterday announced that Ronnie has been charged with three fraud offences, two counts of money laundering and two counts of furnishing false information, in relation to contracts [...]