Marketing & Sponsorship

RCD Mallorca extend alliance with Taica Corporation for two seasons

The LaLiga club, RCD Mallorca have inked a two-season sponsorship extension with a R&D-oriented company, Taica Corporation.

Following the signing of a new deal, the brand will continue to act as the main jersey sponsor of RCD Mallorca.

The Japanese multinational, which has already supported the team for two years, will also get to promote its products prominently throughout all facilities. For the second summer in a row, a club delegation visited Tokyo to negotiate an extension of the contract with Taica Corporation through the year 2025.

While advancing current technologies, Taica Corporation is always looking for the next great product. The brand’s goal is to enable individuals to lead richer, more fulfilling lives. As part of this objective, the company has worked to create unique solutions that meet client needs in novel, inventive ways—things that enable the impossibility of the impossible.

Andy Kohlberg, the majority shareholder and club president, connected with Taito Suzuki, the president of Taica Corporation, in the city’s centre along with Alfonso Diaz, the CEO of Business.

Andy Kohlberg, Club President and Majority Shareholder, said, “This agreement means a lot to RCD Mallorca. For starters, it means doubling the two-year relationship we have already had together and that is the best news across any business relationship. Taica Corporation is happy with RCD Mallorca and vice versa; that well-being is based on the trust we both share for each other and the excitement we have for everything that lies ahead as we continue working together.

“We have challenges we will face together and a great desire to continue growing beside one another and that is the basis of everything: a shared effort to be better and to give even more value to the business relationship we maintain.”

Alfonso Díaz, CEO of Business, said, “The agreement with Taica Corporation is much more than a commercial agreement. It is our gateway to Japan and wider Asia. In these two years, our initial contact has developed into a close relationship of mutual trust and that is the best thing of all. On this basis, RCD Mallorca and Taica Corporation will work together for two more seasons, a period of time in which we want to take a step forward in our relationship and give shape to the many joint projects we have both in sports and commercial matters.”

Taito Suzuki, President, Taica Corporation, “I am delighted with the renewal of our main sponsorship agreement with RCD Mallorca. We have been supporting football for years with agreements with Shimizu S-Pulse, Chuo University Soccer Club and various amateur clubs. Together with us, RCD Mallorca has improved its position in LaLiga and the complete renovation of the stadium is about to materialize. In addition, we will be celebrating 75 years of our company and we want to increase our brand awareness as well as accompany RCD Mallorca in its process of growth.”

Marketing & Sponsorship

Liverpool Sign $77.36 million Adidas Deal To Replace Nike

Liverpool have announced a multi-year kit deal with Adidas that will begin next season, replacing existing manufacturer Nike.

The club previously sported Adidas kits between 1985 to 1996, and again between 2006 and 2012. Liverpool did not say how long the new Adidas deal would be. British media reports previously said it was a five-year agreement worth more than £60 million per year.

The Premier League record kit deal belongs to Manchester United after they signed a £90m-per-year contract with Adidas in July 2023.

“Everyone at the club is incredibly excited to welcome adidas back into the LFC family,” Liverpool chief executive Billy Hogan said in a statement on Monday.

“We have enjoyed fantastic success together in the past and created some of the most iconic LFC kits of all time. adidas and Liverpool share an ambition of success and we couldn’t be more excited to partner together again as we look forward to creating more incredible kits to help drive on pitch performance. We’d like to thank Nike for their support over the last five years and wish them well for the future.”

Marketing & Sponsorship

Lagos Sports Commission DG, Gaslink Commission Newly Refurbished Elegbata Sports Centre

Lagos State Sports scores another milestone in the public/private partnership with the recently commissioned Elegbata Sports Centre, Elegbata on Lagos Island.

Director General Lekan Fatodu led top management staff of the Lagos State Sports Commission to the Elegbata Sports Centre for the brief commissioning of the sports centre.

Also on hand was the Managing Director, Gas Distribution Axxela, Kehinde Alabi who also came along with some staff of the company.

Sports Marketing International reports that Gaslink refurbished the playing turf, perimeter fence, spectator gallery stand, and improved the overall aesthetic of the sports centre.

Marketing & Sponsorship

Niger Delta Sports Festival: Akwa Ibom ready to host – Gov Umoh Eno

The maiden edition of the Niger Delta Sports Festival has received a major boost with the assurance by the Akwa Ibom State Government of its readiness to host.

The State Governor, His Excellency, Pastor Umoh Eno, gave the assurance on Thursday during a courtesy visit by the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission led by the Managing Director, Dr Sam Ogbuku, accompanied Executive Director, Sector Directors, and the Project Consultants, Dunamis Icon, to brief the Governor on the objectives for instituting the multi sports competition and plans for its successful realisation.

Thanking the NDDC for initiating the festival and choosing Akwa Ibom State as host of the maiden edition, Gov Enoh said the visit by the NDDC shows it’s seriousness on the project.

“We thank you for the privilege to host. Your visit shows your seriousness, and there is no way we will reject it.

“The festival will promote the unity in our diversity and also help the local economy through the various commercial activities, from patronage of hotels, food, transportation and other things involved.

“We will set up a small committee to work with you to deliver the event. We look forward to welcoming the Niger Delta, and together, we will have a good time.”

On the availability of required sports facilities, the governor expressed pleasure that successive administrations in the state have contributed to the stock.

“These facilities have come through the combination of works done by each administration. The Godswill Akpabio Stadium done by our present Senate President has stood the test of time, and it also takes great efforts to maintain and sustain it.”

L-R: MD of NDDC, Dr Sam Ogbuku; Akwa Ibom State Governor, His Excellency, Pastor Umoh Eno; NDDC Executive Director of Projects, Sir Victor Antai; and Exective Director, Corporate Services, Hon Ifedayo Abegunde

Earlier in his address, the NDDC Managing Director said the key objectives of the initiative is to foster regional integration, project the identity of the region as a leader in Nigerian sports, and support the partner the states in the discovery and harnessing of talents for the attainment of gainful sporting careers and national excellence in international competitions.

“The Niger Delta is a leading sports hub in Nigeria. The region has produced great sports legends, but when we do not do something to sustain that, there will be a decline.

“We have done very well in our interventions on roads, bridges, education, health, the provision of infrastructure in various other sectors, and as we mark the 25th anniversary of the NDDC, we are starting with intervention in sports.

“We have had a meeting with the commissioners for sports of the nine states, and they are excited and confirmed their participation in the festival.”

“We chose Akwa Ibom after having confirmed that the state has the facilities for competition in the featured sports and we would only need to do a few touches on some of them, with the Godswill as the main venue.”

Rhe NDDC entourage included Sir Victor Antai, Executive Director, Projects; Hon Ifedayo Abegunde, Executive Director, Corporate Services; Apostle Edikan Nkono, Akwa Ibom representative on the board of the NDDC; Directors of various operational departments; Sir Itiako Ikpokpo, Chairman of Dunamis Icon Limited, and other officers of the company.

The Niger Delta Sports Festival is scheduled for April 1 to 8, 2025, with Uyo as the host city.

The activities would start with state trials and selection process, which the organisers say would begin from the local government areas and across the 85 federal constituencies in the region.