Action Images: The Specialist Sports Arm of Reuters

Established in 1983, Action Images was acquired by Reuters – the world’s leading multimedia news agency – in 2005.

Action Images now combines its market-leading skills in sports photography with Reuters’ production of sports photography, text and graphics, as well as bespoke television services, into a compelling multimedia offering for the media, rights holders, sponsors, and creative agencies.

Major (and more unusual) sports and sporting events are covered worldwide. In addition to Action Images’ own specialist team of sports photographers, Reuters brings a global network of more than 600 photographers, as well as sports journalists and television production crews from 196 bureaux in 130 countries.

Clients include major national newspapers, magazines, online media, corporate sponsors, governing bodies and advertising and PR agencies.

Visit www.actionimages.com.

The Norwegian Sponsoring and Event Association was founded in 2001 and is an arena for enhancing the knowledge of sponsoring and event as communication tools in the marketing mix. The Association also aspires to increase the understanding of sponsoring and event, as such, in the general market place.

Since 1996, FASPO, the professional association of sponsoring, acts as a mediator between the various actors in the field of sponsoring and the requests of an integrated media and marketing planning on the side of economy.

FASPO claims to be the unique representative for cultural, social and sport sponsoring in the German speaking region, i. e. in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Sponsoring emotionalizes brands!

FASPO serves as an umbrella organization for all those offering and marketing sponsoring, for sponsors and agencies as well as for service companies. In short: for all those who are interested in a fair competition and a positive development of the market and who look after this interest as members of FASPO.

Hollis Publishing is at the forefront of information publishing for the sponsorship industry. The Hollis Sponsorship Newsletter, Hollis Sponsorship & Donations Yearbook and Hollis Sponsorship Awards seek to inform professionals across the medium.

Launched this year, the Hollis Sponsorship website offers users a wealth of information with a fully searchable database of sponsors, consultancies and suppliers together with leading articles, events calendar and Awards section. A 12-month subscription costs £145 and includes a free copy of Hollis Sponsorship & Donations Yearbook. Please visit www.hollis-sponsorship.com

Journal of Sponsorship, the leading international professional journal for all those concerned with sponsorship and experiential marketing, delivers high quality, peer-reviewed content in all areas of sponsorship.

Every quarter, Journal of Sponsorship publishes a wide range of authoritative, peer-reviewed practice papers, research articles and professional briefings written by leading industry and academic experts - including:

• Practice papers - addressing the issues facing practitioners in industry and consultancy
• Legal and regulatory updates - providing expert guidance on the major legal and regulatory issues
• Reviews – commissioned articles by top experts in the field, reviewing key topics in the area
• Comments – short analyses of topical issues affecting sponsorship professionals
• Case studies - focusing on the real-life challenges and problems faced by sponsorship professionals, how they were approached, and lessons learnt

For more information about the Journal, including a list of forthcoming content, the Editorial Board and how to subscribe, please visit the Journal website at www.henrystewart.com/jos.

Business Group is an independent communications specialist, focusing on media and sports marketing.

It offers clients a range of services from strategy, negotiation, activation and evaluation across all forms of sponsorship. Business Group works with specialists from different business areas in order to develop efficient sport business solutions.

www.businessgroup.hu

Sponsor Magazine is the trade magazine about sponsorships in The Netherlands. With the bimonthly magazine and it's extensions SponsorProfiles, SponsorReport and SponsorOnline (with it's weekly email newsletter). Sponsor Magazine is the leading information provider and newsmaker on sponsorships in The Netherlands. Sponsor Magazine covers the whole range of sponsorships, including sports, art, entertainment, cause related marketing, and is widely appreciated by sponsors, sponsees and agencies.

www.sponsoronline.nl

Sponsorship News has been pioneering the medium of sponsorship for over 25 years. Since 1982, Charterhouse Business Publications have published a 32-page A4 glossy magazine every month which reports on sports, the arts, broadcast, charities, etc. - in fact, anything that is sponsored! Available on subscription only, Sponsorship News costs just £199 (in the UK) for a 12-month subscription. And... subscribers automatically receive an ongoing 'breaking news' e-mail service.

www.sponsorshipnews.com

SportBusiness are publishers and conference organisers, with the world renowned SportBusiness International magazine, serving the global sport industry; covering all sports, all sectors, and all countries.

The 'Sponsorship Works: The Casebook' is a compendium of sponsorship case studies from sponsorship agencies, representing a range of brands and approaches to sponsorship. You can purchase a copy by contacting Adam Colthorpe adam.colthorpe@sportbusiness.com

For free daily news on the business side of sport, please visit www.sportbusiness.com and subscribe to the free newslines service.

With its wealth of information derived from being the leading provider of market data for the past 15 years, Sportcal.com is in a unique position to offer its clients a one-stop shop for essential quality information on the latest deals and opportunities in the Sports Market.

The online Sports Market allows clients to search and identify latest TV & Media rights deals, view Sponsorship announcements and company portfolios, search the most comprehensive Calendar of sporting events, search Bidding opportunities for future sporting events and make use of the comprehensive company Directory. The services are brought together with what is widely recognised as the leading business News service for the sports market with upwards of 25 cutting-edge articles each day.

In one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting industries, Sportcal.com has established itself as the market leader in the provision of quality information to the Sports Market.

For more information on our range of services and to find how to get connected please visit www.sportcal.com or contact a member of the sales team on sales@sportcal.com

Sport & Business Foundation is one of the leading organizations in Polish sports marketing and management. Sport is one of Poland‘s developing businesses and it is an exciting experience to watch how it grows and evolves.

So far sports marketing in Poland has developed some significant sponsorship relationships and experienced a phenomenal rise of several sport celebrities. Sport & Business Foundation strive to promote the best of what Polish sport business has to offer and to encourage leading global players to expand into this market.

Sport & Business Foundation is an organizer of the annual international conference “Sport Marketing Days”. The conference is the most important meeting of the key decision makers in the industry in Poland and one of the biggest events of this kind in Central-Eastern Europe. Its seventh edition will be held on November 6th-7th 2008 at the Olympic Centre of the Polish Olympic Committee in Warsaw, Poland.

Please visit www.dms.sbf.pl/en for more information.