Phar Partnerships Creates Strategy Division
Phar Partnerships has recruited Alastair Macdonald to build a new division offering research, evaluation and strategy consultancy services. The new division will offer research and analysis into sponsorship value and effect, and advice on how sponsorship programmes may be structured to achieve their potential.
The services will be available to both brands and rights holders, covering all forms of sponsorship from traditional sports properties to fast-growing areas such as infrastructure, leisure and tourism.
Alastair Macdonald joins from Havas Sports & Entertainment, the international sponsorship network, where he was head of Havas Sponsorship Insights.
Macdonald commented: ‘The opportunity to create a new business division within Phar Partnerships was too tempting to turn down. In two years, Phar Partnerships has already grown into a significant international player with a great track record of putting together successful and truly innovative partnerships. Taking responsibility for the next phase of the company’s development by taking it into new analytical and strategic services is a hugely exciting challenge.’
Marcus Wight, CEO of Phar Partnerships, added: ‘We know how increasingly important it is to both brands and rights holders to have credible evidence for what sponsorship delivers for the business, and true expertise to help guide them through the sponsorship maze. Alastair is one of the industry’s true experts, respected across the industry for the quality of his analysis, thinking and advice, and it’s a real coup for Phar Partnerships to have secured him. With this appointment Phar Partnerships takes a substantial leap forward towards becoming a true all-round sponsorship consultancy.’
