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The London 2012 Olympics has nearly hit its target of raising $1.1 billion (£700 million) from domestic sponsorship sales, the organising committee's chairman Sebastian Coe said yesterday.
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The UFA Sports agency has extended its activities into Asia with the opening of a new office in Singapore.
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Beer brand Carling will sponsor live broadcasts of Scottish Premier League (SPL) matches on the Sky Sports and ESPN pay-television channels in the UK.
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Portuguese sports broadcaster Sport TV is to launch a channel in the US and Canada to cater for Portuguese-speaking audiences.
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Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has begun sales of advertising spots around the 2012 Olympic Games, and around broadcasts linked to the games in the two years leading up to them.
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Prozone, a company which creates systems for analysis of athlete performance, has signed as a partner of the Leaders in Performance conference.
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The Mayor of London has called for the marathon and triathlon events at the 2012 Olympics to be moved to weekends, from midweek under the current schedule.
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A US court has ruled in favour of Google's video-sharing website YouTube in a copyright infringement case to which the English Premier League had been added as a claimant.
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Car manufacturer BMW has extended its sponsorship of the Ryder Cup to cover the 2010, 2012 and 2014 events.
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US F1 has been fined €309,000 and banned from participating in any Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile championship after failing to start the 2010 Formula One season.
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A crowd of 30,000 attended a day of celebrations in Annecy on Wednesday to celebrate the French city being chosen as one of the candidates to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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The Ashes cricket match will not be added to the list of events that must be broadcast on free-to-air television in the UK, the sports minister Hugh Robertson has hinted.
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UK-based Olympics fans will only be able to use Visa's payment system to buy tickets for London 2012, and Visa debit and credit cards will be the only ones accepted at shops or cash machines at Olympics venues.
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FIFA will release 5,000 tickets for the first knock-out stage of the World Cup that had been reserved for fans of teams including France and South Africa, following the knocking out of those teams in the first round.
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Italian tyremaker Pirelli will take over from Japan's Bridgestone as Formula One's tyre supplier from next season.
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Sports Turf Research Institute, the company responsible for the pitch at London’s Wembley Stadium, has stepped down after 13 months.
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BMW has been announced as an international sponsor of the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) Cross-Country World Cup, as the event revamps its sponsorship structure.
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Porsche has announced one new partner and a host of extensions of existing sponsorships for its motor-racing business.
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FIFA has decided not to pursue its case in the South African courts against two Dutch women accused of illegal involvement in an ambush marketing campaign.
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Soaring demand is powering an increase in the production of vuvuzela horns at Chinese factories.
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The City of Stockholm has leased the new 30,000-seat Stockholm Arena to international sports and entertainment venue operator AEG Facilities.
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Wine brand Brancott Estate will be an official sponsor of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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Sports media agency MP & Silva has opened a new office in Vietnamese capital Hanoi.
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Financial services company Credit Agricole and fast-food company Quick have suspended ad campaigns based around the French national football team, and other sponsors have expressed dismay after the turmoil in the team's World Cup camp over the weekend.
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A professional basketball league in India featuring home-grown and foreign players will be create by IMG Reliance, the joint venture between sports marketing company IMG and Indian conglomerate Reliance.
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A bigger proportion of the German public intended to watch the World Cup than the British public, according to a survey conducted in the days leading up to the tournament by SMGYouGov.
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The Japanese wrestling sport of Sumo joined the France national football team in hot water with their sponsors, after wrestlers admitted to illegal gambling on baseball matches, mahjong and card games.
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Sportswear manufacturer adidas is expecting record sales of football products this year, of €1.5 billion, helped by the World Cup.
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Dave Checketts, owner of Major League Soccer team Real Salt Lake and National Hockey League team the St Louis Blues, has been announced as a speaker at this year’s Leaders in Football conference.
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CNBC has reported that a leaked document it obtained belonging to IMG shows that Tiger Woods' loss of endorsement income cost the agency $4.6 million in fees last year.