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United and PepsiCo form partnership

Manchester United Football Club (NYSE:Man Utd) and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) today announced a multi-year regional sponsorship agreement in Asia-Pacific.
Under terms of the agreement, PepsiCo will become the Official Soft Drinks Partner of Manchester United in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Brunei.

http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-F...ited-announce-pepsi-partnership.aspx?pageNo=1

Pepsi is back! :drool:
 
Another sponser yay! Now we can stop complaining about the lack of signings and relax, safe with the knowledge that the pictures of our players will be plastered on the bottles of Pepsi in these countries. Stuff of dreams, awesome.
 
Do you think the United board have a motivational video to watch every morning before they go about their business? I'm think along the lines of Pinky and the Brain...

"Gee, fellow United workers, what do you want to do today?"

"The same we do everyday - try to take over the world!"
 
Summit said:
Do you think the United board have a motivational video to watch every morning before they go about their business? I'm think along the lines of Pinky and the Brain...

"Gee, fellow United workers, what do you want to do today?"

"The same we do everyday - try to take over the world!"
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:lol:

We must have a playbook on how to acquire new sponsorships. It's like Eddie snaps his fingers, and we've got a new deal.
Now, get the finger out and actually bid properly for a player!
 
We've obviously entered this partnership to sign the players sponsored by Pepsi.

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Summit said:
Do you think the United board have a motivational video to watch every morning before they go about their business? I'm think along the lines of Pinky and the Brain...

"Gee, fellow United workers, what do you want to do today?"

"The same we do everyday - try to take over the world!"
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as if Fabregas needed any more convincing about the security of his future:


Manchester United and the Football Association (FA) are the latest organisations to be awarded the National Association of Pension Funds’ (NAPF) Pensions Quality Mark (PQM).
The award recognises contribution (DC) schemes that demonstrate high standards of governance, good contribution levels, and member communications that are clear, regular and engaging.
Manchester United, current Premier League champions and the second most successful English side ever, gained the PQM Plus award for its 6,000-member, £578m scheme.
The FA received a PQM award for its 530-member scheme.
PQM chairman Christopher Hitchen said: "Both these sporting giants recognise the importance of providing good pensions to their staff and view PQM as the symbol of a quality pension. The club and the sporting body are demonstrating leadership and success both on and off the pitch.
"By achieving the benchmark Manchester United and the FA can show their current and potential staff the quality of their schemes, and the valuable benefit it provides in helping them save for the future."
Manchester United director of communications Philip Townsend said: "With all the changes in pension arrangements, the trustees felt it was very important that our staff could have confidence in their scheme in order to achieve our key objective of increasing member engagement."
He said securing the PQM was an important step in the way the company communicated the benefits of retirement planning to staff.
FA group chief financial officer Andrew Crean said: "Having the PQM enables us to offer reassurance to our staff that the pension benefit that we provide is of high value. It is a positive message that has been well received especially as pensions are being brought to the forefront of people's minds due to the auto-enrolment legislation."
PQM recognises DC schemes whose total contributions are at least 10%, with a minimum employer contribution of 6%.

PQM Plus is the highest standard that can be attained through PQM and recognises schemes with total contributions of at least 15% of an employee's salary, with a minimum employer contribution of 10%.
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http://www.professionalpensions.com...6290/man-utd-adds-pqm-plus-to-trophy-cabinet?
 
C'mere, I am clueless about this - can anyone explain to me what the current situation is? Are our debts healthy? Was reading over it a bit and it looks like we're a long way away from being able to buy the likes of Ronaldo and Fabregas :

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Where did you get that? First, you must get back in your time machine and journey to the present. I believe the accountant who created that table was eaten by a T-Rex.

http://swissramble.blogspot.ch/2013/05/manchester-united-higher-than-sun.html

A good source of info.

I think our present debt is about £350m, but half the bonds have been converted to very low interest bank debt, so our total yearly interest payment is now well below £20m.
 
Reapersoul20 said:
C'mere, I am clueless about this - can anyone explain to me what the current situation is? Are our debts healthy? Was reading over it a bit and it looks like we're a long way away from being able to buy the likes of Ronaldo and Fabregas :
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Having a mortgage on your house doesn't mean you can't buy a new car. It's a matter of how much cash flow you've got left each year after you've made the mortgage payments. United is no different and, as Will said, the mortgage payments are now very low.
 
Who's the girl? She's a qt 3.14
 
Reapersoul20 said:
C'mere, I am clueless about this - can anyone explain to me what the current situation is? Are our debts healthy? Was reading over it a bit and it looks like we're a long way away from being able to buy the likes of Ronaldo and Fabregas :
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I assume you got the graphs from the link I posted in the Fabregas thread the other day. First of all, the article is over a year old so the figures have changed a bit. The listing on NYSE reduced the debt by a decent sum for example. There's a more recent post about the debt from Andersred on his blog (http://andersred.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-history-of-manchester-uniteds-debt.html)

In short; yes, the debt is healthy enough for us to afford a signing or two. How much the club would be willing to spend is up to people with an economics degree and great insight in United's situation to decide really. All depends on future revenue from a transfer, which players we'd be willing to sell (and how much we'd expect to receive from that), how it would affect our future interest payment etc. The club keeps finding new sponsors and with the new TV deal there should be no reason why we couldn't afford to spend big.
 
Will Absolute said:
That's a weird one. You'd think the home club could have any signs they chose in their own stadium.
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I would have thought so. Coke sponsor part of the stadium apparently, so I would think they would get preference over a team playing at the ground. Couldn't see united coming out of it well from a PR perspective if they didn't come out for the game. If anything this little news story has just given coke a bunch of free advertising.
 
They only make $20m turnover a year, no idea about profit. This can hardly be a lucrative sponsorship, but then I guess all the pennies and pounds add up.
 
Genius Me! said:
They only make $20m turnover a ear, no idea about profit. This can hardly be a lucrative sponsorship, but then I guess all the pennies and pounds add up.
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Thats it, itsnt it? Our sponsorship sponsor is TESCO - 'Every Little Helps'
 
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