JUVENTUS : The Global Brand (2 Viewers)

C4ISR

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Dec 18, 2005
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real madrid is a glory hunters wet dream, and the club knows it (goes in line with their policy of buying "big name" players). man u and juve on the other hand, dont market themselves so boldly. not to say we dont have glory hunters, every team does, look at roma after they won the scudetto a few yrs back, there was an increase in ppl wearing roma jerseys lol.
Yes juve are marketting themselves globally, but not at the expense of integrity and their deep history (which is 1 reason y many man u supporters oppose the Glazer takeover). The rennovation of the DA is not purely for revenue (although thats prolly the main intention), its to reinvent the experience juventini feel when they go and watch a game. Being so close to the pitch and immersed in the action will give u more of a sense of connection to the team, a sort of connection that will urge u to go watch the game live rather than in a sports bar.
As for sponsorship, no suprise there, success brings alot of attention and companys are trying to capitalize off that, i dont see that as selling out as some football fans like to say. It is simply a sign of the times, juve are adapting, but once again, not at the expense of the integrity of the club. Barcelona have begun to realize this and are close to signing a deal in the near future.
Anyways, for me, the product, football, is what matters the most. The money (sponsors, etc) doesn't mean anything to me directly, however, indirectly they provide us with an advantage to make our club even greater, which i would never oppose to. Juve worked hard to get where they are, there a "global brand" at the expense of 108 yrs of history, something the casual football obersver doesn't realize and is quick to label a team like Juventus, a corportation, forgetting the fact they worked hard to get where they are.
 

Seven

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Jun 25, 2003
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#23
I might look crazy, but what Barça did this season (changing their shorts from blue to red) will cost them a lot of money in the future.
 

Layce Erayce

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Aug 11, 2002
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Seven said:
I might look crazy, but what Barça did this season (changing their shorts from blue to red) will cost them a lot of money in the future.

Red teams win more cups.

Red team cups: :coffee::coffee::coffee:

Other team cups: :coffee:

As you can clearly see, red teams win more.
 

Mr. Gol

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Sep 15, 2004
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Seven said:
I might look crazy, but what Barça did this season (changing their shorts from blue to red) will cost them a lot of money in the future.
That was Nike's decision. They have absolutely no respect for the club's history :(
 

swag

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Layce Erayce said:
Red teams win more cups.

Red team cups: :coffee::coffee::coffee:

Other team cups: :coffee:

As you can clearly see, red teams win more.
Well done, Josh. :thumbs: :D
 
Jul 5, 2005
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Very good article for that peaple of Torino. I hope Juve to make a relocation to Cicely for some years and then you will see how many peaple will be at the stadium and nobody will know again the city of Torino.
 

Erkka

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- vOnAm - said:
Is our red jersey also Nike's decision? Coz it just doesnt feel Juve-ish
:yawn: As I've written several times... Ferrari is Juve's twin, and it's kind of a miracle that combining such big brands took so long.

joe5 said:
Very good article for that peaple of Torino. I hope Juve to make a relocation to Cicely for some years and then you will see how many peaple will be at the stadium and nobody will know again the city of Torino.
Disgrace.
 
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    Sorry mate, haven't really been readin through the posts. So you think the red is here to stay? Our twin givin us any dough?
     
    Jul 5, 2005
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    Sorry for my disgraceful message but it sounds me stupid for some peaple not supporting Juventus because she hasn't the name and the colours of their city.
     
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    A tank full of…Juventus official merchandise!


    A tank full of…Juventus official merchandise!

    It opens in Turin, Via Sansovino 44/a, the first “Juventus Point” a gas station Tamoil, petrol group with 2,200 stations in Italy. Juventus and Tamoil – leader company in the oil sector that counts 2.200 stations in Italy – inaugurate today in Turin, at the Tamoil gas station in Via Sansovino 44/a, the first “Juventus Point”, offering to all drivers the possibility of purchasing official Juventus merchandise during a regular fuel stop.

    The opening of the first of twenty “Juventus Points” on the all domestic territory represents the beginning of a new cooperation focused on the future between Juventus and Tamoil. The two companies, in fact, other than sharing sport initiatives on the soccer pitch with Juventus, decided to join their strengths and their experience to chase success also in the commercial and promotional fields.

    The new “Juventus Point”, located in the Via Sansovino gas station in Turin, is the first of a series of commercial corners that will progressively be realized on the whole domestic territory: Tamoil customers could thus easily purchase, during a regular stop, Juventus official products. In the new “Juventus Points” it will be possible to find around 20 products, with the prices going from 3 euros for the keychains to 15 euros of the “duplicate” shirt, official reproduction of the match jersey: a unique offer for over 14 million Juventus supporters in Italy.


    All the products will be exposed in a personalized doublefaced window, located in the Tamoil shop. The gas stations where the new “Juventus Points” will be set up will have three graphics in the outside and one inside the point of sale.

    “Juventus and Tamoil – states Romy Gai, Juventus Football Club Chief Sales & Marketing Officer – reach today a further achievement, result of the strong collaboration which links the two companies: for the first time a soccer team joins the distribution network of an petrol Group for the diffusion of its merchandising. “Juventus Point is in fact an important offer to all the team’s supporters that will be able to find all the official products of their favorite team while doing the normal act of fuelling in the set up Tamoil stations”.

    “With this new initiative – explains Tamoil Italia S.p.A. Chief Officer Ness Yammine – we further strengthen the relationship with Juventus: a synergy that is winning in the commercial field and on the football pitch. The one in Turin is only the first of a series of “Juventus Points” that our customers will be able to find in the Tamoil gas stations. Our is a long-term goal: we will gradually inaugurate 200 Juventus corners until we will cover 600 Tamoil gas stations with “Juventus Points” along the whole domestic territory.
    We are working with a specific goal: to position Tamoil offer as the most competitive on the market as combination of quality in the services and in the products, excellent in the programs of customer loyalty and convenience in the prices.
    We point to consolidate our position as a dynamic company in the oil sector, keeping on growing”.

    Juventus.com
     
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    I don't know if our red jersey is staying but definately the blue and red logo will be unseparatable from Juve for years to come.
     

    Elvin

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    The Times November 28, 2005

    The Game

    How Turin's old lady gained global appeal
    By Gabriele Marcotti



    LAST TUESDAY, 9,623 SPECTATORS — of which only 4,161 bought tickets; the rest were season ticket-holders — watched Juventus defeat FC Bruges in the cavernous Stadio Delle Alpi, a win that secured the Bianconeri’s place in the knockout stages of the Champions League. On the same night, Manchester United drew with Villarreal in the same competition and Old Trafford was, as usual, close to capacity.
    But it is United, the endlessly self-described “biggest club in the world”, who are to lose their massive sponsorship deal, not Juventus. The further twist, of course, is that United’s contract with Vodafone, which will expire at the end of the season, nets them a relatively paltry £9 million a season, compared with Juventus’s £15 million deal with Tamoil.



    When football clubs make claims about their global fan base — such as Florentino Pérez, the Real Madrid president, and his boast of having 93 million Madridistas worldwide — it is best to take it with a bucket of salt. Defining what constitutes a fan is not easy and these numbers often seem plucked from thin air.

    What is not plucked from thin air is the hard cash that sponsors and television companies pour into Juventus. They attract more sponsorship than any other club in the world and also boast one of the most lucrative television deals, earning a guaranteed £48.5 million for their domestic digital terrestrial and digital satellite rights alone. It is numbers such as these that make Juve oblivious to the sneers and barbs that pundits from across the world occasionally direct their way as a result of the Stadio Delle Alpi’s paltry attendances.

    The simple truth is that Juventus are more of a global club than any other in the world, in the sense that they have no real ties to their home city of Turin. It is claimed that one in three Italians are Juve fans. If this is true — and it often feels that way — few of them live locally. But that is all part of the game plan.

    “In 1897, when a group of university students from Turin founded the club, they could have called it Torino, but they chose a totally nongeographic word, Juventus,” Romy Gai, the club’s commercial director, said. “I suppose it was an early marketing choice. It disengaged the club from territorial issues. In a world where many are proud of their roots, you could freely support Juventus without supporting Turin, which might be a rival to your own city. It invited people everywhere to come on board.

    “There are people — in Asia, South America, other far-away places — who consider themselves Juventus fans but don’t know where we are from. They know we’re from Italy of course, but they might not know we’re from Turin.”

    Far-flung United fans do not have that problem. While it is an oft-repeated joke that most United supporters hail from Surrey and other points south, it is also a myth. Without getting into the age-old argument of whether most of Manchester supports United or City, it is obvious that the club are deeply rooted in local traditions and culture.

    Not so Juventus. To them, Turin is little more than an address, unlike their cross-town rivals Torino, who wrap themselves in the city’s colours and culture at every occasion. And this is why Juventus, the most successful club in the history of Italian football, have an average home attendance (29,122) only marginally higher than Torino (24,188), who are in Serie B and have won one league title in the past 55 years.

    Some blame the usual factors for Juve’s poor attendances: high ticket prices, too much football on television and the Stadio Delle Alpi’s poor sightlines and inconvenient location on the outskirts of town. “But it’s just not true,” Gai said. “Two-thirds of our matches have a cheapest ticket which costs less than €10 (about £6). For those same games women and children get in for one euro. People blame the stadium and maybe it’s not all that it could be. But in the late 1990s we were averaging around 48,000 to 50,000 a game and that was in the Delle Alpi.”

    Juventus’s plan to renovate the Stadio Delle Alpi, reducing capacity from the present 69,041 to about 40,000 — paid for, naturally, entirely by sponsors — is a rare concession to Juve’s local fan base. A few years ago, when Juventus first looked at renovating the Delle Alpi, it was suggested that, instead of choosing an alternate home for a year, the club might spend the entire season “on tour”, pitching up in a different town every weekend. Indeed, wherever Juventus go, they tend to sell out.

    The origins of their popularity, in addition to the club’s name, are not hard to fathom. “The big one is that we’re historically one of the most successful teams in the world,” Gai said. “We have won 28 league titles. Among the major European leagues, only Real Madrid have won more and they have just one more than we do. Winning generates more fans, it’s a basic fact.

    “As important, I think, is that we have had the same owners, the Agnelli family, since 1923. That has given us both tradition and identity, affording us the opportunity to make long-term plans.” The result is a club which is truly unique: more popular away than at home.

    One of the maxims of selling is “know your customer”. Juventus do this better than most. Their customer, ultimately, isn’t the Turinese shivering at the Stadio Delle Alpi. Chasing his euro is not as important as satisfying the tens of millions elsewhere around the globe.


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    Anyone remember this article? In retrospective we still have all the plusses mentioned there and we now have a full-house every week :ultra:
     

    Elvin

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    Delle Alpi seems like a forgotten nightmare now, God it was awful...

    Someone should make a 'success kid' meme saying 'got paid for naming rights, still called Juventus Stadium' :D
     

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