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 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 delighted 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.”

For further information please contact:

Peter Mann or Cathy Livock of pmplegacy,

Cathy: +44 (0) 7887 546495    cathylivock@pmplegacy.com

Peter: +44 (0) 7887 546488    petermann@pmplegacy.com