MAJOR SPONSOR ON BOARD FOR TASMANIAN AFL TEAM BID
Tasmania's bid to secure its own Australian Football League (AFL) team has been boosted after the Tasmanian Government confirmed the bid's first major corporate sponsor. Read more
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SHERRIN MOTORSPORTS PLACED INTO LIQUIDATION
Sherrin Motorsports is in liquidation and follows its June announcement that it would cease category management of the Carrera Cup Championship and MINI Challenge.Read more
TWENTY20 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE THROWS UP SPONSORSHIP ISSUES
With the global Champions Twenty20 League structure now finalised, and the Victorian Bushrangers and West Australian Warriors confirmed as participants, teams in the new competition are looking at potential new sponsorship revenue streams as well as legal issues with existing sponsors.Read more
NRL SPONSORHSIPS UNDERSOLD
NRL jumper sponsorships are massively undervalued and are costing clubs much-needed profit says Manly Sea Eagles co-owner, Max Delmege.Read more
BLAZE SIGNS NAMING RIGHTS SPONSOR
National Basketball League (NBL) club, the Gold Coast Blaze, has signed QDeck as its naming rights sponsor for the 2008/09 NBL season.Read more
LOCAL SPONSORSHIP INDUSTRY WILL RIDE THE STORM
The Australian sponsorship industry is insulated and robust enough to ride through the global economic storm, says Australasian Sponsorship Marketing Association president, Phil Whittaker.
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HOPMAN CUP RE-SIGN MAJOR SPONSOR
The Hopman Cup has confirmed that major sponsor, Amcom Telecommunication Ltd, has renewed its association with the tournament for two years.Read more
SLINGERS LEAVE THE NBL FOR GREATER LOCAL FOCUS
The Singapore Slingers have become the third team to bow out of National Basketball League (NBL) citing rising fuel and transportation costs and the desire to increase its local focus through the introduction of the Asia-based Slingers Challenge Series 2008/09. Read more
SPONSORS NOT PHASED BY HIGH-PROFILE PLAYER EXITS
The departure of high-profile players from a sports team can have a minimal impact on major club sponsors if the player exit is well managed, says Matt Neat, public affairs manager from health insurer, NIB, a major sponsor of the Newcastle Knights NRL and Geelong AFL clubs.Read more
NRMA SPONSORS HISTORIC FINAL RACE
New South Wales' peak motoring body, the NRMA, has won naming rights to the last ever round of V8 Supercars to be held at Oran Park.Read more
