Friday 10th February 2017; London, UK: The Sports Consultancy is delighted to share the news that it has been included in the shortlist as the BT Sport Industry Award’s Agency of the Year 2017, the result of which will be announced at the awards ceremony on 27th April 2017.
The nomination comes as The Sports Consultancy celebrates 10 years in business, with 2016 being a record-breaking year, posting close to 20% year on year growth in total revenues and in addition to continuing work with long terms clients such as Volvo Ocean Race, FIBA, London & Partners, Event Scotland and the FEI an expansion of its client roster welcoming organisations such as the Rugby Football League, World Rugby Formula E, EPCR, Gothenburg & Co:, Flanders, Aarhus, London World Athletics Championships 2017 and British Athletics to their growing stable of clients.
The nomination and recent business performance positions The Sports Consultancy as one of the most successful independent sports marketing agencies, providing expertise across a broad range of areas from rights marketing and brand sponsorship to host city consulting, legal and governance and major event consulting.
Commenting on the nomination co-founder and joint managing director, Robert Datnow said: “We are honoured to be recognized by our peers in being shortlisted for this prestigious award and very much hope we can provide a convincing case to the judges. We are hugely proud of our strong year on year growth, the high quality of our growing team, the welcoming of many high-profile new clients alongside the retention of existing client relationships and most importantly the results we are delivering for all these clients. 2017 is already shaping up to be an even bigger year for our business and a good way to start the next 10 years of our growth.”