Toyota to continue as sponsor?

[overthehillprop]

Don't care if its Audi, Toyota, Maud's Corner shop or a jersey covered in various sponsors as long as Munster get the right deal and top dollar.

[the_dazz]

Don't care if its Audi, Toyota, Maud's Corner shop or a jersey covered in various sponsors as long as Munster get the right deal and top dollar.

Totally agree, once Munster is getting the biggest amount of bucks they can the jersey can say whatever it wants.

[sledger2003]

Why should keeping Toyota be a priority ? If they want out, let them out , there will be someone else.

Because.. apart from the rather large sums of money (relative) there is also the subsidized club cars and being involved with brands like Toyota and Adidas is better than having "Ricky Galvin Tyres" on your Cotton Traders jersey... is that ok for ya ?

[Blindsider.]

Because.. apart from the rather large sums of money (relative) there is also the subsidized club cars and being involved with brands like Toyota and Adidas is better than having "Ricky Galvin Tyres" on your Cotton Traders jersey... is that ok for ya ?

If Toyota want out, then they will walk. Nothing will make them stay if they decide that a depressed car market = no sponsorship.

Munster obviously have a figure in mind and ideally the next sponsor will be exclusive - it suits both parties - however, if ACME Co. offers a less than ideal figure, then exclusivity is gone and we might see more sponsors on the jersey - it can be a useful 'trial' for a company to gauge reaction and think about a bigger deal next time.

The Toyota deal was diced up to include cars for players - but it's still part of an overall package, so it's not that important. €850K + €150K still = €1m. That's the magic figure.

If Toyota are no longer involved, the high-tech space is very interesting, and where all the hype is at present - think well-known web-browser and tablet manufacturer with Euro HQ in Dublin, smartphone and tablet manufactuerres based in Cork, and their big competitors who have done a deal with the Wallabies and sponsor Chelsea (?)

Big budget areas and all ripe for some sponsorship in rugby.

@ the_dazz: Maximuscle are just one lof a long list of partners - none of whom will appear on a Munster jersey anytime soon. Shorts? Maybe, but personally I think Munster will stick to one sponsor only.

[DONC]

Some interesting figures regarding shirt sales for soccer, perhaps not as high as one would expect.

1. Manchester United: 1,400,000 shirts per season.
2. Real Madrid: 1,400,000.
3. Barcelona: 1,150,000.
4. Chelsea: 910,000.
5. Bayern Munich: 880,000.
6. Liverpool: 810,000.
7. Arsenal: 800,000.
8. Juventus: 480,000.
9. Inter Milan: 425,000.
10. AC Milan: 350,000.

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/...charts-081001/

Still worth a few quid all the same

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/...ing-in-081002/

[McCloud]

Maximuscle sign a 2 year sponsorship deal with Munster.

[deadlyBuzz]

Maximuscle sign a 2 year sponsorship deal with Munster.

It doesn't say it's an exclusive shirt sponsorship though, Munster have an army of sponsors behind them, some contributing just money for advertising in the ground and others contributing services at discounted prices.
This doesn't say we'll be seeing Munster shirts with Maximuscle emblazoned across them so there's still the question of who'll be the next shirt sponsor.

[McCloud]

It doesn't say it's an exclusive shirt sponsorship though, Munster have an army of sponsors behind them, some contributing just money for advertising in the ground and others contributing services at discounted prices.
This doesn't say we'll be seeing Munster shirts with Maximuscle emblazoned across them so there's still the question of who'll be the next shirt sponsor.

Never suggested it was for the jersey. Just thought rather than creating a new thread I'd stick it in this one.

[the_dazz]

It doesn't say it's an exclusive shirt sponsorship though, Munster have an army of sponsors behind them, some contributing just money for advertising in the ground and others contributing services at discounted prices.
This doesn't say we'll be seeing Munster shirts with Maximuscle emblazoned across them so there's still the question of who'll be the next shirt sponsor.

Maximuscle have a lot of teams with a small logo on either the jerseys sleeve or on the shorts, we could see something like that. Remember way back when munster had tipp natural water on the shorts?

[LeakyBoots]

Munster Maximuscle video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=BJAJDaJr99w

[MunsterLux]

That star logo on the black/dark navy jersey would look wicked.

[Mack the Knife]

Tampax

[mr chips]

Edited

[Major TNT]

Maximuscle sign a 2 year sponsorship deal with Munster.

Good fit for Munster, can see them being a secondary sponsor with a logo on the shorts or sleeves.

[John Cooper Clarke]

Edited.

Even I found that a little distasteful Chippy.

[mr chips]

I apologise - edited. Judgement possibly affected by a combination of fatigue and a rare third glass on a Monday night.

[McCloud]

Irish Examiner

Recession hinders Munster chief’s search for sponsor
By Simon Lewis
Friday, January 11, 2013




Heineken Cup qualification is not the only battle Munster have on their plate this weekend after chief executive Garrett Fitzgerald confirmed the two-time European champions are still searching for a new shirt sponsor for next season.


Speaking exclusively to the Irish Examiner as the Munster team prepare for a make-or-break European pool tie in Edinburgh on Sunday, Fitzgerald said current shirt sponsors Toyota Ireland, whose brand name has adorned the province’s jersey since 2004 and was front and centre for both Heineken Cup victories in 2006 and 2008, were "unlikely to remain as our primary sponsor".


Toyota’s current deal, a three-year extension signed in the summer of 2010, expires at the end of this season and was worth €5.75m, with the car company’s total backing of Munster amounting to more than €13m over nine years.


With Ireland in the teeth of an economic downturn, Munster must cast their net overseas in the search for a new shirt sponsor.


The Munster chief executive said he was confident a new sponsor would be found and Munster’s brand value ensured it could expect at least a similar return to the current deal with Toyota, struck after the end of the Celtic Tiger boom, with naming rights deal for both Thomond Park and Musgrave Park on the table if the financial incentives for the province were suitable.


"The situation at the moment is that Toyota are unlikely to remain as our primary sponsor," Fitzgerald told the Irish Examiner.


"I cannot speak highly enough of Toyota and their approach to sport in Ireland, when you look at horse racing, golf and many other sports that they have supported. They’ve been fantastic sponsors for us.


"We’ll see [if they remain] but it will be something that will be done professionally and amicably, whatever it is."


As for the search for a new sponsor, Fitzgerald needed no reminder of the current economic straits the Irish economy is in, and which saw Munster announce a projected deficit of more than €1m for the year ending June 30, 2012 at its Branch Annual General Meeting last summer.


"It’s an area we’re looking at and like everything else it’s a challenge but I think we’ll get there, maybe not when we want," Fitzgerald said this week.


"I don’t think there’s been any new sponsorship [in Ireland] announced in the last year or two, of any significance... The reason being is that people have the money and they want to spend it but the consumer spend isn’t going to give them the spin-off that they need to justify their sponsorship, so that’s a challenge.


"Any time you look at a sponsorship you look internationally. At this stage Ireland is too small a market to look just on its own. I think we showed that by going with Toyota and with adidas."


Fitzgerald said Munster Rugby had discussions with more than 20 prospective sponsors at home and abroad but it is apparent the stumbling block has been the current lack of consumer spending power in this country.


"Our sponsorship isn’t up until the end of June. If you ask me when would I like to see a deal done by I’d love to see it done today. But that doesn’t happen in business, you don’t always get what you want. What you fight for and what you wait for, you probably appreciate a lot more afterwards. So there’s no deadline on it but it’s something we need to be looking at in the next two months.


"We’ve had discussions with over 20 different companies at home and abroad, many of them who’ve shown great interest, but while people would have the money to spend it’s very hard to justify it with the current consumer spend in Ireland.


"We’ve had many people who have great respect for the Munster brand and who would like to be involved but it’s very hard when you go to get sign-off on something to justify it. That’s the challenge really.


"We’ve had very few negative conversations and a lot of positive conversations. Even when you have a sponsor you’re canvassing on a constant basis, talking to companies and talking to different businesses. There is always another opportunity."


As for the naming rights issue, the subject of keen debate at recent Munster Branch AGMs, Fitzgerald said: "I don’t think we’re going to look at a naming rights thing just for the sake of it. It needs to be financially worthwhile, given the history involved with the game here.


"But whether it’s Musgrave Park or Thomond Park, if the opportunity arises, it’s in our financial and economic interest to look at all of those. They are on the table if the proposal is right."

[LeakyBoots]

Whatever about having a dodgy sponsor on the shirt, you'd get over that, it's a necessary evil in the professional game... but changing the name of Thomond Park is something that would p*ss me off no end and would make me reconsider attendance

[Dumptruck]

Irish Examiner

Recession hinders Munster chief’s search for sponsor
By Simon Lewis
Friday, January 11, 2013




Heineken Cup qualification is not the only battle Munster have on their plate this weekend after chief executive Garrett Fitzgerald confirmed the two-time European champions are still searching for a new shirt sponsor for next season.


Speaking exclusively to the Irish Examiner as the Munster team prepare for a make-or-break European pool tie in Edinburgh on Sunday, Fitzgerald said current shirt sponsors Toyota Ireland, whose brand name has adorned the province’s jersey since 2004 and was front and centre for both Heineken Cup victories in 2006 and 2008, were "unlikely to remain as our primary sponsor".


Toyota’s current deal, a three-year extension signed in the summer of 2010, expires at the end of this season and was worth €5.75m, with the car company’s total backing of Munster amounting to more than €13m over nine years.


With Ireland in the teeth of an economic downturn, Munster must cast their net overseas in the search for a new shirt sponsor.


The Munster chief executive said he was confident a new sponsor would be found and Munster’s brand value ensured it could expect at least a similar return to the current deal with Toyota, struck after the end of the Celtic Tiger boom, with naming rights deal for both Thomond Park and Musgrave Park on the table if the financial incentives for the province were suitable.


"The situation at the moment is that Toyota are unlikely to remain as our primary sponsor," Fitzgerald told the Irish Examiner.


"I cannot speak highly enough of Toyota and their approach to sport in Ireland, when you look at horse racing, golf and many other sports that they have supported. They’ve been fantastic sponsors for us.


"We’ll see [if they remain] but it will be something that will be done professionally and amicably, whatever it is."


As for the search for a new sponsor, Fitzgerald needed no reminder of the current economic straits the Irish economy is in, and which saw Munster announce a projected deficit of more than €1m for the year ending June 30, 2012 at its Branch Annual General Meeting last summer.


"It’s an area we’re looking at and like everything else it’s a challenge but I think we’ll get there, maybe not when we want," Fitzgerald said this week.


"I don’t think there’s been any new sponsorship [in Ireland] announced in the last year or two, of any significance... The reason being is that people have the money and they want to spend it but the consumer spend isn’t going to give them the spin-off that they need to justify their sponsorship, so that’s a challenge.


"Any time you look at a sponsorship you look internationally. At this stage Ireland is too small a market to look just on its own. I think we showed that by going with Toyota and with adidas."


Fitzgerald said Munster Rugby had discussions with more than 20 prospective sponsors at home and abroad but it is apparent the stumbling block has been the current lack of consumer spending power in this country.


"Our sponsorship isn’t up until the end of June. If you ask me when would I like to see a deal done by I’d love to see it done today. But that doesn’t happen in business, you don’t always get what you want. What you fight for and what you wait for, you probably appreciate a lot more afterwards. So there’s no deadline on it but it’s something we need to be looking at in the next two months.


"We’ve had discussions with over 20 different companies at home and abroad, many of them who’ve shown great interest, but while people would have the money to spend it’s very hard to justify it with the current consumer spend in Ireland.


"We’ve had many people who have great respect for the Munster brand and who would like to be involved but it’s very hard when you go to get sign-off on something to justify it. That’s the challenge really.


"We’ve had very few negative conversations and a lot of positive conversations. Even when you have a sponsor you’re canvassing on a constant basis, talking to companies and talking to different businesses. There is always another opportunity."


As for the naming rights issue, the subject of keen debate at recent Munster Branch AGMs, Fitzgerald said: "I don’t think we’re going to look at a naming rights thing just for the sake of it. It needs to be financially worthwhile, given the history involved with the game here.


"But whether it’s Musgrave Park or Thomond Park, if the opportunity arises, it’s in our financial and economic interest to look at all of those. They are on the table if the proposal is right."

Musgrave is being renamed woodies car park south.

[Waterfordlad]

Not 'Pretty Near-by Park and Ride' or 'Don't You Dare Park Outside Our Centra Shop'?

[The Spoofer]

Whatever about having a dodgy sponsor on the shirt, you'd get over that, it's a necessary evil in the professional game... but changing the name of Thomond Park is something that would p*ss me off no end and would make me reconsider attendance

Wow.

[Native Land]

Whatever about having a dodgy sponsor on the shirt, you'd get over that, it's a necessary evil in the professional game... but changing the name of Thomond Park is something that would p*ss me off no end and would make me reconsider attendance

Totally agree

[McCloud]

Hm. Must have a dig around for the thread which covered Thomond Park naming rights last time this was raised.

[Cowboy]

8 Degrees Brewing come on down your time is now!

(this is not a rumor or a fact, merely something I'd love to see)

[deltared]

The Park and No Ride!

[Buceph]

8 Degrees Brewing come on down your time is now!

(this is not a rumor or a fact, merely something I'd love to see)

The Fran Well as sponsors. Seeing as they're supposedly being taken over by Molson Coors. Although I can put up with hordes of Munster players in Wagamamas, not too sure about them drinking all my Friar Weiss.

[Piquet]

Musgrave is being renamed woodies car park south.

Why? Musgrave Park is to the North West of Woodies, as you would know, if you bothered your arse to go there often enough.

[Bitter As A Lemon]

Whatever about having a dodgy sponsor on the shirt, you'd get over that, it's a necessary evil in the professional game... but changing the name of Thomond Park is something that would p*ss me off no end and would make me reconsider attendance

So in essence if it came down to it, you would prefer a Munster team not being able to compete at Rabo level, rather than give up the name of a stadium?
They are not moving the stadium, it will still be in Thomondgate, not "insertsponsorhere"gate.

A couple of years ago, I was against the idea of selling the naming rights. Right now, because we don't have the backers that both Ulster and Leinster have, I don't give a **** what they call the place. It will still be Thomond Park to me, and all it will do is omprove the teams performace, because we will be able to afford the player investment.

[Dumptruck]

Why? Musgrave Park is to the North West of Woodies, as you would know, if you bothered your arse to go there often enough.

Someone's wound you up good and tight before I posted anything anyway.

Oh I go there very frequently piquet. Even when there are no games on...

[Hugh Jardon]

Whatever about having a dodgy sponsor on the shirt, you'd get over that, it's a necessary evil in the professional game... but changing the name of Thomond Park is something that would p*ss me off no end and would make me reconsider attendance

Have to disagree on that, maybe if some sugar daddy came in and took over MR and renamed it 'Digicell Munster' for example then I'd have issues. I still go to Lansdowne for 6n games and enjoy the experience much better than the crushes I've experienced over the years in the old terraces