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Can new manager David Moyes nurture the £3bn Manchester United 'brand'

Can new manager David Moyes nurture the £3bn Manchester United ‘brand’

By Stephen Foster on May 10, 2013

We put brand in inverted commas because brands and their valuation in football are even more difficult to compute than in other areas of business – and, indeed, sport. Manchester United turns over about £350m and makes an operating profit of about £90m; nice work (and a nice margin) if you can get it but [...]

Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Champions League, David Moyes, everton, glazers, John Magnier, Jose Mourinho, manchester united, new manager, Pep Guardiola, rock of gibraltar, Sir Alex Ferguson | Leave a response

Heineken gets lost in its new Champion's League 'Road To The Final' TV campaign

Heineken gets lost in its new Champion’s League ‘Road To The Final’ TV campaign

By Staff on April 8, 2013

All this global malarkey can bring problems in its train and Heineken and agency Wieden+Kennedy seem to have stumbled on some of them in their latest campaign for Heineken’s sponsorship of the Champion’s League football. The new ‘global’ ad ‘Road To The Final’ shows the resourceful hero of the campaign finding a way to get [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged alcohol, brazil, Champions League, cuba, heineken, road to the final, tv campaign, wieden+kennedy, Youtube

McCann unveils Champion ad for Mastercard

McCann unveils Champion ad for Mastercard

By Stephen Foster on April 2, 2013

Thought Mastercard and McCann had taken leave of their senses when I first saw this; but it’s not an ad just 12 different idents for Mastecard’s sponsorship of the Champion’s League. Here’s the ad and it’s a pretty good ‘use of winsome child in thirty seconds,’ a category that almost used to define advertising but [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Champions League, idents, mastercard, mccann, tv ad, visas, winsome child

Whoops - sponsor crisis as Manchester's big-spending clubs flop out of the Champion's League

Whoops – sponsor crisis as Manchester’s big-spending clubs flop out of the Champion’s League

By Stephen Foster on December 7, 2011

It’s a bad night for both Manchester United and Manchester City in the Champion’s League – Man U lost 2-1 to Swiss ‘no-hopers’ Basel and City beat Bayern Munich but failed to qualify for the knockout stages because Napoli beat Villareal in Spain. So, for the first time in years, England has only two teams [...]

Posted in Clients, News | Tagged abu dhabi, arsenal, barcelona, basel, bayern munich, Champions League, chelsea, David Gill, Glazer family, manchester united, manchster city, napoli, real madrid, Sir Alex Ferguson, villareal

Manchester United tops Brand Finance list of most valuable football clubs

Manchester United tops Brand Finance list of most valuable football clubs

By Stephen Foster on September 30, 2011

As you probably expected it would, given that owners the Glazer family are planning to sell a 30 per cent stake in it to Singapore investors at a whole club valuation of between £1bn and £2bn. So UK researchers Brand Finance’s ‘brand valuation’ of Manchester United at £412m is pretty measly but it still puts [...]

Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged abu dhabi royal family, barcelona, brand finance, brand valuations, Champions League, football, Glazer family, machester city, manchester united, real madrid, Roman Abramovitch, Stan Kroenke

Heineken and W+K up the creative stakes in new 'oldies' Champions League ad blitz

Heineken and W+K up the creative stakes in new ‘oldies’ Champions League ad blitz

By Stephen Foster on September 14, 2011

Actually Heineken’s new campaign promoting its sponsorship of the UEFA Champions League is called ‘Legendary Football’ but it’s a pretty neat way of showcasing the talents of footballers Gianluigi Buffon, Rene Adler, Patrick Vieira, Clarence Seedorf and Ruud Van Nistelrooy, some of whom are past their best and at least one, Viera, who has retired. [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged adidas, blink, Champions League, Clarence Seedorf, football extravaganza, Gianluigi Buffon, heineken, humour, Patrick Viera, rugby world cup, w+k amsterdam, wieden+kennedy amsterdam

Sponsors Coca-Cola and Adidas whack FIFA boss Sepp Blatter

Sponsors Coca-Cola and Adidas whack FIFA boss Sepp Blatter

By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2011

That’s ‘whack’ in the sense of a Mafia hit, it’s going to be very hard for FIFA president Sepp Blatter to recover from the assault launched on him yesterday by Coca-Cola and Adidas, two of FIFA’s and world football’s biggest sponsors. Coca-Cola said that the current state of FIFA, which organises World Cups, was “distressing” [...]

Posted in Clients, News, Politics | Tagged adidias, bribes, Champions League, coca-cola, David Beckham, David Cameron, fifa, Mohamed Bin Hammam, olympics, Prince William, qatar 2022, Sepp Blatter, sponsors, world cup

Olympics expert Jon Tibbs wins Manchester United PR challenge

Olympics expert Jon Tibbs wins Manchester United PR challenge

By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2011

You wouldn’t think Manchester United would be much of a challenge, heading for a record 19th UK Premiership title and more than half-way to this year’s Champion’s League final at Wembley but it undoubtedly is. The reason, of course, is the phenomenal unpopularity of owners the Florida-based Glazer family and the huge amounts of debt [...]

Posted in Clients, News, PR | Tagged barcelona, Bell Pottinger, Champions League, Cristiano Ronaldo, Glazer family, Hill & Knowlton, Jim O'Neill, Jon Tibbs, jon tibbs associates, Jose Mourinho, manchester united, Phil Townsend, qatar holdings, real madrid, red knights, schalke, Sir Alex Ferguson

Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona top football rich list

Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona top football rich list

By Stephen Foster on February 10, 2011

Spain’s footballing duopoly of Real Madrid and Barcelona top Deloitte’s list of Europe’s highest-earning clubs yet again, maintaining their lead over English moneybags Manchester United. Actually the oft-maligned English Premier League comes out of it pretty well because it negotiates its Sky TV deal centrally and shares the money around whereas in Spain TV rights [...]

Posted in Media, News | Tagged abu dhabi, barcelona, berlin, Champions League, deloitte richest football clubs, manchester city, manchester united, moscow, paris, real madrid, rome, sky, tv money

Spurs in brand sponsor dilemma

Spurs in brand sponsor dilemma

By David O'Reilly on July 6, 2010

Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur are reported to be looking for a different shirt sponsor for every competition they are in next season. Apparently chairman Daniel Levy has come up with the idea because no one brand is willing to pay the £10 million he wants for an exclusive deal with a sole sponsor appearing on [...]

Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged Champions League, Harry Redknapp, League Cup, Playstation, Premier League, Spurs, tv

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