Hamburg, 20th January 2005
Global Sportnet, the Sports marketing Agency of the WPP Group, and the longstanding business partners Sauerland Event GmbH and ARD Werbung SALES & SERVICES GmbH (ASS) have forged an exclusive partnership to market all boxing events which will be broadcast live on ‘Das Erste’ (ARD) as of 2005.
Global Sportnet, in cooperation with ASS, has taken over the complete marketing of Sauerland Boxing events, which starts with around 10-12 events 2005.
The overall marketing strategy offers TV programme-sponsoring, phone- in-competitions as well as location branding and sponsorship rights for the Sauerland events.
Included in this offer is the TV programme sponsoring and phone-in-competition on TV for 4 fights with Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko.
‘We are delighted that through our cooperation with Global Sportnet the know-how and experience of a renowned international Sports marketing agency is being integrated in to our Team’, said box promoter Wilfried Sauerland.
Michael Lina, ARD’s Director of TV-Marketing at ARD Werbung SALES & SERVICES GmbH explained, ‘We are pleased to be able to offer a package to the sponsorship market out of one hand through the bundling of our marketing competencies.
Thomas Martens, CEO at Global Sportnet added; ‘We are particularly happy that this marketing cooperation with Sauerland Event GmbH and ARD Werbung SALES & SERVICES GmbH has been realised. Boxing is one of the most popular sports in Germany. Therefore we envision an enormous potential in these highly interesting boxing evenings which have not yet been marketed in such an all-round manner to date.’
Geert Bittner is the initiator and mediator of this business cooperation and shall be accompanying Sauerland Event, Global Sportnet and ARD Werbung SALES & SERVICES all the way.
For further information please contact:
Global Sportnet GmbH & Co. KG
Udo Harms
Sales & Marketing Manager
Tel.: +49.40.450112-28
E-Mail:uharms @globalsportnet.com
Or
Lars Bründel
Sales & Marketing
Tel.: +49.40.450112.29
E-Mail: lbruendel@globalsportnet.com
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