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By Stephen Foster on December 10, 2012
This is interesting for all sorts of reasons (most of which we’ve tried to cram into the headline). So have the Big Apple-ites captured the (often rancid) flavour of British football support? Maybe they have. And they weren’t to know that the Manchester derby match at the weekend would turn into a thoroughly rancid affair [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged espn, football, hooligans, manchester city, manchester derby, manchester united, Rio Ferdinand, sky, wieden+kennedy new york
By Stephen Foster on September 4, 2012
That’s a bit unsporting isn’t it? As the UK enjoys the Paralympics in the wake of the London Olympics it looks as though the much hoped-for boost to the UK economy hasn’t happened, or has been delayed anyway. Figures from the British Retail Consortium show that retail spending was up a modest 1.6 per cent [...]
Posted in Finance, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Baron Coubertin, Jessica Ennis, london olympics, manchester city, Michael Gove, paralympics, retail sales, uk economy, £11.3bn cost
By Stephen Foster on February 16, 2012
M&C Saatchi executives have been grumbling into their cappuccinos for years about losing the British Airways account to Bartle Bogle Hegarty. BA was the account that made M&C pssible (or gave it lift off anyway) when it followed Charles and Maurice Saatchi, David Kershaw, Bill Muirhead and Co to M&C when the Saatchi brothers (pictured) [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged $100m account, abu dhabi, BA, bartle bogle hegarty, Bill Muirhead, british airways, Charles and Maurice Saatchi, David Kershaw, etihad airways, etihad stadium, m&c saatchi, manchester city, manhattan commercial, saatchi & saatchi, world's favourite airline
By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2012
Let’s try to look at this logically. Football is a big business in the UK (BSkyB’s humungous profits depend on it, almost entirely). We have a very expensive Premier League of high-performing clubs, some of whose players are English. The finances of the England team depend on the willingness of supporters and commercial backers, sponsors, [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged 1966, Anton Ferdinand, bskyb, David Bernstein, england manager, Euro finals, fa chairman, Fabio Capello, football association, James Lawton, John Terry, manchester city, Patrick Barclay, Peter Scudamore, Rio Ferdinand, sponsors, Wayne Rooney, wembley stadium, world cup
By Stephen Foster on December 6, 2011
London’s Olympics Park Legacy Committee, charged with ensuring that the various venues for the London Olympics next year don’t end up as landfill sites, is looking for a name sponsor for the three main Olympic arenas in Stratford, East London. Not for the Games themselves though, for life thereafter. The provisional ticket is £10m a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged abu dhabi, David Gold, David Sullivan, etihad airways, Karren Brady, london olympics 2012, manchester city, Mike Ashley, olympics park legacy committee, sportsdirect arena, st james' park, stadium naming rights, stratford east london, west ham united, £10m deal
By Stephen Foster on August 17, 2011
Manchester United was a public company until it was bought by the hated (as far as the fans are concerned) Glazer family from Florida and now it looks as though it’s going to become one again (partly) as it prepares as $1bn share sale in Singapore. The deal will value Man U at around £2bn, [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged abu dhabi, bskyb, Glazer family, John Magnier, JP McManus, manchester city, manchester united, Rupert Murdoch, singapore share float, Sir Alex Ferguson
By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
David Bernstein is no stranger to controversy. He was non-executive chairman of French Connection during its “f.c.u.k” ad campaign in 1997, created by the mercurial Trevor Beattie at TBWA and banned from time to time by the Advertising Standards Authority. It was ultimately successful for the clothing label. Bernstein has also a held a number [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged argentina, british press, corruption, David Bernstein, Dennis Skinner, falkland islands, fifa, football association, Helen Mirren, Julio Grondona, manchester city, Sepp Blatter, Sun, Telegraph, The Queen
By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2011
What happens on the pitch is only half of it in football these days (but it always has been a game of two halves) with footballers clogging up the courts with injunctions and boardroom battles. London Premiership team Arsenal, for decades supposedly run by gentlemen in contrast to the vulgar types in charge at other [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Alisher Usmanov, arsenal, Arsene Wenger, chelsea, Danny Fiszman, David Dein, emirates stadium, Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, manchester city, manchester united, north london, Peter Hill-Wood, Roman Abramovitch, Stan Kroenke, steel magnate, uzbekistan, walmart
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