464:, documents filed revealed that his contract as chairman required him to spend 60 days a year in the UK. Companies House lists his fifteen firms, including his core company The Marcus Evans Group, as all being registered in Bermuda. Marcus Evans is believed to be based in Ireland where his European headquarters are located, although he still owns his two homes in Britain (Kingston upon Thames and Chelsea).
286:. The official announcement did not state the terms of this deal, though various unsourced media reports speculated that he paid anything between 20 pence to £1 for the club. He injected £12 million into the club and gained a controlling 87.5% stake, with existing shareholders retaining a 12.5% stake. The deal was finalised following an EGM on 17 December 2007.
204:, Evans started his first firm, Associated Promotions, in 1983 when corporate hospitality was a relatively new market. By 1992 he had renamed his company The Hospitality Group (THG Sports Tours). That same year, he bought into a clothing and gifts company, Castle Mills International, but sold it to investor Brian Rousell within a year.
172:, which he bought in December 2007. He remained the owner for over 13 years before selling the club to a new U.S. consortium in April 2021 while retaining a 5% share in the club. Evans himself has maintained a low public profile throughout his professional career, with limited photos and interviews of him available online.
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Hospitality Group's packages included receptions before and after the matches, but not tickets to see them. This claim was contested by the organizing committee. However, despite taking The Hospitality Group to the highest appeal courts in France, in
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Tours is now part of the wider Marcus Evans Group. In 1994, he paid £325,000 for a stake of just under 5 percent in the electronics firm Ross Group, where he was appointed Chief
Executive. In 1999, he was reportedly removed as CEO after a shareholder coup. In 2004, Evans made an unsuccessful £700+
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Berke Bakay, and Mark Detmer) owning a further 5% stake, and the remaining 90% of the group owned by the US investment fund ORG. Evans confirmed in his final statement that despite retaining a stake in the club, he would no longer be involved in the day-to-day running of the club.
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When Marcus Evans took over the club in 2007, the club was £32m in debt to Evans. Due to the club paying Evans around 5.4% interest on the debt every year, club accounts in 2012 showed that the figure had more than doubled to £67m and he hadn't converted any of it to equity.
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Marcus Evans Group was founded in 1983. It employs over 3000 staff and has around 56 offices globally. The group produces high-end and sector-focused business events, summits, and conferences, in a number of business sectors.
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failed to secure exclusive control over corporate hospitality at the event. In a ruling, the Paris
Commercial Court awarded Marcus Evans the right to run hospitality packages without the approval of the organizing committee.
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rules and staged a protest outside the club's training ground, with many throwing flares onto the ground and chanting for
Lambert to be dismissed. Lambert would leave the club at the end of the month by mutual consent, with
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announced that Marcus Evans would be buying a controlling stake in the club subject to contracts, pending due diligence and shareholder approval. The deal saw Evans purchase
Ipswich Town's £32 million debts with
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Liberal Democrats confirmed that the party received significant support from Marcus Evans Ltd to establish a national phone bank to promote the party in future elections.
246:(OCI) officially appointed the THG Sports Tours, another company owned by Marcus Evans (and part of the Marcus Evans Group), as its official ticketing agency for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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