Industry Shorts: Macclesefield Town, Secutix, Vitality Big Half
The assets of Macclesfield Town have been purchased by a local businessman, Robert Smethurst, who intends to rebrand the club as Macclesfield FC.
The new phoenix club intends to enter into the North West Counties League next season and has appointed former Wales midfielder and broadcaster Robbie Savage to its Board of Directors.
In September, Macclesfield Town was wound up in the High Court and expelled from the National League, owing debts of up to £500,000. The club was relegated from the EFL at the end of the 2019/20 season, after being deducted points because of its financial issues.
Ticketing platform SecuTix has launched a new suite of tools to ‘reboot’ sport’s ticketing operations.
According to the company, it has developed a new SaaS Ticketing Platform in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has resulted in seven features designed to clubs when fans return to stadiums.
Among the features is an algorithm designed to sell tickets for events while adhering to social distancing to the ground as well as allowing tickets to go on sale but assigning seating later when social distancing regulations are confirmed.
London Marathon Events has announced that the 2021 edition of the Vitality Big Half is scheduled to take place on Sunday 25th April.
The 2020 event took place on 1st March just before the arrival of coronavirus restrictions in the UK, and the 2021 edition is set to begin at Tower Bridge and finish at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich.
Organisers say the 2021 event will involve social distancing and will be ‘covid-secure’, however a full refund will be offered if the event be postponed or cancelled.
Fitness technology company JAXJOX has secured £7.7 million in a Series A round of funding with investors including entrepreneur Nigel Wray, the owner of rugby club Saracens, and corporate broking firm Dowgate Capital, bringing total funding raised to date £13 million.
The funding is set to expand development of the highly anticipated JAXJOX InteractiveStudio, the world’s first digital at-home fitness platform with connected free-weight equipment that creates personalised data points based on the user’s performance, and hits the UK market early 2021.
