Susan Scott-Ker, Global Marketing Executive, Accenture
“Andy and 2 Halves have been instrumental in helping Accenture in the UK engage in a tremendously exciting and valuable relationship with the RBS 6 Nations Rugby Championship, as we sought to raise our Technology profile in the UK market. Andy is a total professional and is always looking for ways to add value to the relationship, bringing new ideas to us, making things work smoothly and anticipating and handling concerns or hurdles that inevitably arise when least expected. I look forward to continuing to work with Andy and 2 Halves and recommend him and his company very highly indeed.”
Stuart Kinch, Guinness Senior Brand Manager, Diageo
“2 Halves is a highly professional and impressive sports sponsorship agency. They immediately understood Guinness’ brand values and the objectives we needed to achieve, and were extremely helpful in brokering an agreement between Guinness and the Six Nations. This led to a significant enhancement of our Guinness Area 22 rugby union programme which was a huge success. Throughout the campaign they delivered above and beyond, consistently going the extra mile and I look forward to working with them again in the future.”
Rupert Pick, Flora Brand Manager, Unilever
“Commissioning Andy Selby to review the Flora Light Challenge was money very well spent. Andy managed to interweave a solid understanding of the brand’s wider commercial and communication objectives into project specific advice that was focused, pragmatic, creative and on-brief. We also benefited hugely from the knowledge he’s gained from working across the spectrum of media platforms…. and to top it off he’s a joy to work with.”
John Feehan, CEO, Six Nations Rugby Ltd & British Lions Ltd
“We have worked with the team from 2 Halves for over 15 years now and cannot recommend them highly enough. Their professionalism is exemplary and their enthusiasm for the Six Nations Championship and the British & Irish Lions really does shine through. The specialist sponsorship expertise and advice that they provide is valued extremely highly within our organisation and we trust them implicitly to implement highly successful sponsorship programmes for our official partners.”
Nick Fry, CEO, Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team
“We have worked with 2 Halves Sports Marketing for over 5 years and continue to be impressed by their work with our sponsorship acquisition department. The 2 Halves team have an in-depth understanding of our business which gives them the insight to identify potential partners which are right for us and Formula One. Our relationship with Graham Watches, our Official Timing Partner, came through 2 Halves and has been going from strength to strength over the past three seasons. The 2 Halves team is small, friendly and innovative in their approach, which combined with their long experience in motorsport, provides an ideal partnership for Mercedes GP Petronas.”
Beth Coalter, Tournament Operations Manager, World Rugby
“World Rugby commissioned 2 Halves to produce a number of sponsorship evaluation reports for our Sevens World Series title sponsor HSBC and we have been particularly impressed with the extremely high quality of their work and the insight of their analysis. 2 Halves also worked with us to introduce additional commercial partners such as SAP, our Official Technology Partner. We have really enjoyed working with them on this exciting and dramatic World Series and look forward to the years ahead.”
Eric Loth, CEO, Graham-London
“We have been impressed by 2 Halves quick and clear understanding of our brand values and positioning. They were able to determine accurately the right partnerships for us. They have a huge knowledge of the potential synergies and how the partnership could benefit both parties and this has led to our excellent experience with both the Six Nations and Mercedes GP. In addition, the quality of the follow-up is by far higher than anything we have experienced so far with other agencies. All this and more makes us very comfortable in recommending 2 Halves to any other company.”
Alastair Sim, Director of Strategy & Marketing, SAS Software
“Our experience of 2 Halves has been one of a highly professional organisation, open in their approach and with strong integrity. The partnership they facilitated with the Six Nations has enabled SAS Software awareness to extend well into our target markets, dominating all other Technology brands.”
Damian Hopley, CEO, Rugby Players’ Association (RPA)
“2 Halves have a great understanding of the culture and values of the RPA and as a result have created one of our best partner programmes with our title sponsor Computacenter. We really do value the relationship we have with them and their professional advice which continues to produce excellent results.”
Rob McCowen, Marketing Director, All England Lawn Tennis Club
“Andy quickly developed a deep understanding of our culture and the Wimbledon brand. We had tremendous confidence in his ability to work with our partners and year after year he was successful in helping us to enhance the Wimbledon experience.”
Jeff Lucas, CIO, All England Lawn Tennis Club
“Andy was instrumental in developing our interactive sponsorship strategy and successfully managed the integration of our broadcaster partners into our website activities. He always offered sound advice and was very enthusiastic, determined and above all a pleasure to work with.”