MATCH kicks out suiteholders at Confed Cup final
28. Jun, 2009
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The Sunday Independent newspaper reports that corporate South Africa have been kicked out of their suites at Ellis Park for Sunday night’s Confederations Cup final and forced to buy back their seats for 90 times the price of a regular stand ticket.
They also have to pay in US dollars, the official Fifa currency, with each corporate ticket costing $800 (R6 400), compared to R70 for a stand ticket.
According to Match Hospitality, the ticketing agents for corporate hospitality at Fifa’s events this year and in 2010, all of Sunday’s corporate seats have been sold and will rake in more than $3.5 million.
How much of that money will stay in South Africa is unclear.
“That’s confidential,” said Peter Csanadi, the head of marketing at Match Hospitality, an international company that was selected as the preferred bidder for corporate hospitality for the Confederations Cup and World Cup in an international public tender launched in 2007.
Read the entire report on Sunday Independent
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