Soccerex Asian Forum
Host Partner
Football Asia
Football Asia is an exciting and unique new company dedicated to the business of football. Operating in the field of sponsorship, events touring, player endorsements and talent development, Football Asia is set to become the leading commercial resource in Asia for all things football.
Title Sponsor
SBOBET Isle of Man
SBOBET is recognized as a leading Global Brand in Online Sports Betting.
Its European Operation is Headquartered, Licenced and Regulated in the Isle of Man, British Isles one of the World’s Premier Jurisdictions for regulated eGaming operators.
SBOBET Isle of Man has invested heavily in the latest technologies to deliver a fast and secure player environment committed to providing its customers with an outstanding gaming experience.
SBOBET has made the Isle of Man its Global location for all Business to Consumer player accounts worldwide in addition to its ‘Springboard’ into the UK and Europe. SBOBET is a leader in Sports Betting offering Value, depth of content with some 1,500 markets on soccer each week, security and fairness to all of its customers.
As part of building its Brand in these new markets SBOBET has, since 2008, been principle sponsor of West Ham United in the Premier League and Cardiff City football club.
Global Partners
IMG
IMG is the world's premier and most diversified sports, entertainment and media company. We partner with the world's leading marketers and media networks to help them grow their businesses through our event properties, media production and distribution, talent brands, sponsorship consulting, brand licensing, sponsorship sales and other services.
IMG's areas of expertise include:
• Media production and distribution across multiple platforms
• Event creation, management and sponsorship sales
• Client representation and brand management
• Sponsorship and media consulting
• Global sponsorship and media sales
• Consumer products licensing
• Athlete training
Lockton
Lockton, the world's largest, privately owned, independent insurance broker and risk management specialist. The brokerage firm have global presence and a considerable expertise, offering their services to clients throughout the world, in all the major continents.
For futher information about Lockton's services contact Stephen Akers on +44 (0) 20 7933 2910
Oxigen
Oxigen Investments is one of the most respected UK based companies specialising in ethical and sustainable forestry. We are the only sustainable choice for clients buying into commercial Plantations which we own either outright or by joint venture in tropical countries.
Our policy at Oxigen is to use our land in an ecologically responsible way. By this we mean planting and harvesting trees through what we call sustainable rotation, which means we can plant and harvest our tree crops for literally hundreds of years to come on the same sites!
Event Supporters
FastWebMedia
Fast Web Media Ltd, based in Manchester, is the wholly owned UK operating company of Total Sports Online ASA -www.totalsportsonline.com Fast Web Media has three main business areas:
Sports media owner - Fast Web Media owns, hosts and manages www.4thegame.com, one of the largest sports websites on the web.
Sports digital media - Fast Web Media is a full service digital agency specialising working for sports governing bodies, rights holders, media and sponsors. We have won awards for web development and search engine marketing in particular. Current clients include Carling, Nationwide Building Society, The Rugby Football Union, The Premier League, The Football League and Manchester United.
Sports Public Relations - Fast Web Media is a full service Sports PR agency. We provide business to business and business to consumer PR only for sporting clients. We currently work with PA Sport, Manchester World Sport 08, Slazenger, Dunlop, Lonsdale, The Football League and UEFA New Media.
Navyblue
Navyblue Design Group is one of the top 20 design groups in the UK. Established in 1994, we now operate with a full-time team of 68 and a £8million turnover. We are a creative-led consultancy with an enviable portfolio comprising a range of international FTSE 100 listed companies and household brand names, as well as smaller privately owned businesses and public sector bodies. We have a proven track record in sports bidding, beginning with the joint Scotland/Ireland bid to co-host the European Football Championships in 2008 and we created and delivered the prestigious Candidature File for the winning bid by London to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. Our expertise in the sporting arena also extends to football clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur and Glasgow Rangers where we are their chosen creative partner on their hospitality, branding and retailing programmes.
For further information:
Tel: +44 (0)20 7253 0316 +44 (0)20 7253 0316
Email: geoff.nicol@navyblue.com or phil.jones@navyblue.com
JMW Solicitors
The Manchester based law firm has many years of experience in acting for sports and media personalities, clubs and leading brands and offers advice on issues such as transfer negotiations and contracts, image rights, sports sponsorship and stadia naming rights.
For further information about JMW Solicitors LLP please contact Daniel.Clark@jmw.co.uk or visit www.jmw.co.uk and www.jmwsports.co.uk.
