Chime Communications PLC is today pleased to announce the recent acquisition of pmplegacy, the global sporting events consultancy.
The move marks a further addition to the capabilities of the Sports Marketing Division of Chime Communications, developing our major event bidding and planning expertise.
pmplegacy, acquired from parent company pmpgenesis, has a long and distinguished twenty year track record of working with leading cities around the world on the evaluation, bidding, planning and delivery of major sporting events.
The business, founded by Peter Mann, has worked on a wide range of major events including Olympic & Paralympic Games; Youth Olympic Games; Asian and Commonwealth Games and Cricket, Football and Rugby World Cups.
Its clients include World Cup Barbados 2007; Beijing 2008; 2008 African Cup of Nations; Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games; London 2012; Glasgow 2014; Madrid 2016 and most recently, England’s 2018 FIFA World Cup bid.
pmplegacy has also worked extensively with many leading International Federations including FIFA, the IRB and FIBA and NGBs such as the RFU, the FA, LTA, British Equestrian Federation and England Netball.
Jim Glover, Chief Executive of the Sports Marketing Division of Chime Communications said: “Developing global major event bidding expertise is a clear area of focus for the Sports Marketing Division of Chime Communications. As our work is increasingly becoming more international, this acquisition marks an important move for us in our ambition to work even more closely with cities, governing bodies and bid committees on insightful strategies and activation plans to win major global events”
Alan Pascoe, Chairman of the Sports Marketing Division of Chime Communications and Vice Chair of London’s 2012 Olympic Bid said: “We are thrilled to welcome pmplegacy into the Sports Marketing Division of Chime Communications and are excited by the team’s skills and insight, which will be a perfect complement to our existing skills and our planned ambition in this area.”
Founding Director of pmplegacy, Peter Mann, said: “We are delighted to have joined the Chime Group and look forward very much to being an integral part of the Sports Marketing Division, working closely with such leading companies and strong brands as Fast Track, Essentially and Stuart Higgins Communications.
“Chime’s commitment to the major events sector will enable pmplegacy to build extensively upon our achievements to date and target key events and geographical markets in a robust and innovative way.”
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Steve Chisholm, Director of Communications, Fast Track
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Notes to Editors
The Chime Group helps clients create, manage, monitor and market their businesses, brands and reputation both in the UK and internationally.
Chime is the holding company for the UK's leading public relations group, Bell Pottinger, one of the fastest growing advertising and marketing services groups in the UK that includes VCCP and Teamspirit; the UK's number one sports marketing group that includes Fast Track, Essentially and Stuart Higgins Communications; and one of the UK's leading research groups including Opinion Leader Research and Facts International.
Chime is made up of four divisions, 50 agencies and over 1,100 people. We have offices in the UK, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, USA, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar, South Africa, India, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
