25 September 2007 – Following the departure of Andrew Croker, the former Management Board Member of SPORTFIVE Group, Chris Rawlings of SPORTFIVE’s company Active Sports Marketing will assume the responsibilities of Managing Director in the UK.

Andrew Croker has been recently appointed Executive Chairmann of the newly merged Premium TV/Inform Group. He will continue in a consultancy capacity with SPORTFIVE until the end of this year.

“We most warmly thank Andrew for his valuable contribution to SPORTFIVE’s development over the past years”, says Olivier Guiguet, Chairman of SPORTFIVE’s parent company Lagardère Sports. “We are looking forward to working with him in his new capacity in the future. For SPORTFIVE, Chris Rawlings will be the new management board representative in the UK and will keep developing our business in this important market.”

We’ll glad to be of assistance for any further information.

Caroliene Götz
Vice President Corporate Communications
SPORTFIVE GmbH & Co. KG
Phone: +49 40 376 77-333
Fax: +49 40 376 77-115
E-mail: caroliene.goetz@sportfive.com