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...LeBlanq started running weekend and one-day trips this year — part of a continuing boom in the corporate entertainment and luxury travel offshoots of a sport some have dubbed “the new golf”....
...Leonine and Axel Springer would bring local content and promotional support which would help drive Pro7’s entertainment business and Joyn....
...Regional bias towards London and the South East needs addressing in all areas of policy from infrastructure to sport, the arts and banking....
...Providing an efficient omni or multichannel service by having the correct IT systems and dedicated staff is going to be the way of the future, says KPMG Boxwood’s Mr Martin....
...WPP is the world’s largest marketing services group and has become increasingly interested in sport....
...In January, the group invested in Bruin Sports Capital, which aims to spend $250m buying sports rights and is led by George Pyne, the former president of IMG’s sports and entertainment division....
...These include: Learfield Sports, a college sports rights and marketing agency; Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network, a television network; and Ironman, an international triathlon competition....
...The combined group is a “relatively large and complicated animal,” Mr Durban acknowledges. “We are in many more businesses and offer more services.”...
...Jacques-Antoine Granjon Vente-Privee French Known as “JAG”, the billionaire businessman sports long locks and V-neck T-shirts that reveal plenty of chest hair....
...He sports a dark jacket, V-neck sweater and white shirt and, most strikingly for Manhattan in winter, the deep suntan that he apparently maintains year round....
...The culture and entertainment category, which rose 0.8 per cent last year, was up a further 4.2 per cent this year, reflecting the draw of West End theatre and opera....
...John Martin, chief financial officer, said print advertising trends had stabilised since July....
...It is on course to raise $500m to finance acquisitions in media, sports and entertainment, with investors including Terry Semel, former chief executive of Yahoo, Jay and Miky Lee, from the family that started...
...After a spell out of the limelight he started his own company – Foresee Entertainment – and worked briefly with Theodore Forstmann, the financier who controls the sports marketing group IMG....
...While CAA and WME2 slug it out, opportunities have emerged for UTA and ICM. “Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Peter Phillipson, chairman, Merlin Entertainments Group. Diane Poole of Norfolkline Irish Sea Ferry Services. Rachel Portman, film composer. Francis Rossi, guitarist, Status Quo....
...Prices of culture and entertainment events – which include a 24-hour global concierge service, the Artprice global art index, Soho House club membership and Royal Opera House tickets – dropped 20.5 per cent...
...He traces its popular and aristocratic origins in post-renaissance Italy, its spread to the courts and salons of northern Europe, its role as a socially exclusive entertainment in democratic New York and...
...Coaxing growth out of magazines Time, People, Fortune and Sports Illustrated, has been more difficult as advertising and circulation decline....
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