17.01.2017
CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA DE0005470306
CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA: Simon Lewis joins CTS EVENTIM to lead new marketing partnerships and sponsorship division
DGAP-Media / 17.01.2017 / 10:49
PRESS RELEASE
Simon Lewis joins CTS EVENTIM to lead new marketing partnerships and
sponsorship division
European leader in ticketing and live entertainment takes strategic move to
further exploit its wide array of assets / Focus on new revenue streams
Munich, 17 January 2017. CTS EVENTIM, Europe's market leader in the
ticketing field and one of the world's leading providers of live
entertainment, concerts and festivals has signed Simon Lewis, former
President of Live Nation Europe, to launch the newly created marketing
partnerships and sponsorship division. The new unit to be headed by Lewis
will serve the whole EVENTIM group across Europe and build partnerships
around CTS EVENTIM's substantial network of major European festivals,
concerts, venues and traffic-rich ticketing websites and related digital
assets.
CTS EVENTIM operates more than 20 music festivals across Europe, including
Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, Hurricane, Southside and Deichbrand in Germany,
Greenfield in Switzerland, and Bravalla in Sweden. The group promotes a
multitude of tours and shows in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and is
rapidly expanding its international promoting footprint. EVENTIM's
portfolio also includes market-leading ticketing brands in 25 countries
with comprehensive fan reach like eventim.de, ticketone.it and
ticketcorner.ch, and major European venues like the legendary Waldbuehne in
Berlin, Lanxess Arena in Cologne and the Eventim Apollo in London.
The new division will develop large scale marketing partnerships centered
on these assets and partner with renowned global, Pan-European and national
brands from a wide range of commercial sectors. "With this move we
underscore our reinforced focus on direct and indirect income streams and
benefits of brand partnerships and sponsoring, while at the same time
leveraging our assets on a European scale", says Klaus-Peter Schulenberg,
CEO of CTS EVENTIM.
"The new unit will put particular emphasis on a data-driven approach, and
has the unique ability to combine both ticketing and promoting to develop
products according to our current and future partners' needs" says Dr.
Frithjof Pils, Director New Business of CTS EVENTIM and Managing Director
of Medusa Music Group.
Simon Lewis, designated head of EVENTIM's marketing partnerships unit:
"Eventim's substantial estate of European businesses is profoundly
impressive and is set for further growth in key areas of the live
entertainment market. I will greatly enjoy the motivation of representing
EVENTIM as we build on the marketing partnerships sector in Europe's key
territories."
In a career spanning almost 3 decades, Lewis has worked for Thames TV, MTV
Networks Europe and Live Nation. He has led launches of MTV and VH1
channels in a range of European markets and developed strong and credible
marketing partnership initiatives with some of the Worlds leading brands
such as O2, American Express, Nokia, Vodafone, Carlsberg, Pepsi and many
others.
About CTS EVENTIM
MDAX listed CTS EVENTIM AG & Co. KGaA (ISIN DE 0005470306) is Europe's
market leader in the ticketing field, with operations in 25 countries, and
one of the leading providers of live entertainment. More than 140 million
tickets for more than 200,000 events are marketed annually via Eventim
group systems. In addition to more than 20,000 stationary outlets in
Europe, Eventim distributes tickets via online platforms and call centres.
Among others, EVENTIM group operates the online portals eventim.de,
oeticket.com, ticketcorner.ch, ticketone.it, lippu.fi and entradas.com.
For further information:
Engel & Zimmermann AG, Unternehmensberatung für Kommunikation
Dr. Andreas Bachmeier, Tel. +49 89 8935 633, [email protected]
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Language: English
Company: CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA
Rablstr. 26
81669 München
Germany
Phone: 0421/ 3666-233
Fax: 0421/ 3666-290
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.eventim.de
ISIN: DE0005470306
WKN: 547030
Indices: MDAX
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover,
Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
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