Alcoholic Beverages/Beer

Team Dragon Roars Ahead With Long Term Brewery Partner

May 10, 2016

Ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio, state-owned Zhujiang (Pearl River) Brewery has continued to back the Chinese national basketball team as its official beer partner.

Yanjing Beer Continues Partnering Team Dragon

March 28, 2016

With football hogging the headlines in China, it was inevitable Yanjing Beer, the state-owned brewery, has chosen to renew its sponsorship deal with Team Dragon, the country’s national…

ASN Interview: Singha to Continue to Use Sports Sponsorship as a Vehicle for International Expansion

October 15, 2015

Most ASEAN brands tend to be cautious and rarely venture into sports Sponsorship. However, the Thai beer Singha has been a notable outlier making a slew of high…

Emirates Tipped To Consolidate Its Global Tennis Footprint

July 20, 2015

Emirates is widely tipped to replace Corona as the ATP’s lead sponsor from early 2016, according to numerous tennis insiders, with a deal believed to be worth at…

Will FIFA's Remaining Asian Sponsor Give Sepp the Red Card?

May 29, 2015

Joseph S. Blatter's recent re-election as the President of FIFA - and the results to come from the US Justice Department investigation into a cartel of (allegedly) corrupt FIFA…

ASN INSIGHT: La Liga Courts More Chinese Sponsors

April 28, 2015

Spain’s elite club football league La Liga, which boasts perennial European powerhouses FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, has agreed a regional sponsorship deal with China’s Snow Beer.

ASN INSIGHT: CBA CEMENTS POSITION AS CHINA'S MOST VALUABLE SPORTING PROPERTY

March 31, 2015

The year’s edition of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) Final Series was a resounding success on all fronts, especially for its sponsors.

ASN INSIGHT: Thailand bans Alcohol Sponsorship. How Will The Crackdown Affect the Sponsorship Market?

August 28, 2014

This week, the new Thai government began enforcing regulations on how alcohol brands can advertise domestically. As a result, overnight, rights holders have lost a valuable category and…

DHL Partners Chinese Super League (CSL)

July 30, 2014

Global logistics giant DHL (DPWGn.DE) has become a partner of China’s top-tier club football competition, the Chinese Super League (CSL).

INTERVIEW: ARCHIE HAMILTON TALKS TO ASN ABOUT CHINA’S BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT SCENE

May 30, 2014

Archie Hamilton, the head honcho of Split Works and Splatter, is the opinionated, lovable, double-denim (when we met him) scruff who wears many hats in China’s live music scene.…