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The Lagardère Unlimited sports marketing division of media conglomerate Lagardère has announced it will centralise its European football resources.

The Lagardère Unlimited sports marketing division of media conglomerate Lagardère posted a 13.6-per-cent year-on-year fall in turnover in 2013 after a sharp fall in sales in the final quarter of the year.

German Bundesliga top-tier football club Hertha Berlin has extended a deal with the Sportfive agency for the marketing of its media and commercial rights.

More top-level defections raise questions about Sportfive International

TF1 pays less for France matches but Uefa still happy with deal

TF1’s Le Lay says focus is now on major events

Al Jazeera beats rivals to land handball World Championships

Ufa Sports: We will bounce back after handball loss

Interview with Sandi Sola, treasurer and executive member of the International Handball Federation, on its new global deal with Al Jazeera covering the World Championships in 2015 and 2017.

Infront guarantees the future income of Serie A but rights-fee growth is in the hands of clubs

Sportfive/IEC says pooling of rights will give agencies stronger base to take on rivals

IMG and Sportfive to challenge Infront for lucrative Serie A adviser role

How Europe’s top football leagues use external experts

SPL drops Sportfive for MP & Silva premium in nine-year deal for international rights

European football federations ponder how to increase the value of their friendly rights

The recipe is simple: take the world’s most popular sport in a market primed for growth, get in while the sport, the broadcast market or the economy more generally is underdeveloped, invest in long-term p…

The joint venture of Dentsu and Infront will be banking heavily on getting good revenue from China.

Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.

Advent International has begun a recapitalisation of its stake in the Sportfive agency.

·   Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency. 

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency. It is the first deal done for the championship.