About
COMPANY PROFILE
Sportsvendo is a Sport Event Management Company, established in 1991 when South Africa was re-admitted to International Sport. We have offices throughout South Africa with representation in Namibia and close ties to the New York City Marathon. In 30 years, we have coordinated over 1000 sporting events, both competitive and non-competitive lifestyle series, hold International License’s and both create and manage events from concept through to post-event analysis and analytics. Sportsvendo has created and produced award nominated sport events in the past, which include:
- Kaya FM 67km Relay for Mandela Day
- National Business Challenge Relay Series [SA and Namibia]
- Warner Bros Justice League Run Series
- Take 5 Team Relay Series
- Jog-a-Thon for Old Mutual, as part of the Old Mutual Victory Championship
- Comrades Marafun & Two Oceans Marafun
- Jacaranda City Challenge Marathon
- SA Pork Kwai Marathon Challenge
- Corporate Cycle Relay Series [SA and Namibia]
- Makhulu Open Water Swim
- SA Aquathon Championship
- Powerman Duathlon
- Makhulu Walk
- The Color Run (South Africa)
- Run for Mom
- Office National Xtreme Chair Race
- Goodwill Walk
- Volvo Swedocar Marathon
Design
The Sportsvendo design team is well equipped to handle all creative and design requirements, from concept stage, through to design and finished art.
- Creating event concepts
- Corporate identities
- Hospitality requirements
- Marketing material for brand activation and promotions
- Large and small format branding for billboards banners and posters
- Above-the-line and Below-the-line elements
Branding and design for all types of collateral
Experiential & traditional marketing
Our experience across the gamut of digital and traditional marketing has positioned Sportsvendo at the forefront of promoting sporting events. Be it a soccer or rugby match, marathon, relay, cycle challenge, or triathlon, we are equipped to increase the public footprint of any event with extensive experience in:
- Event CI design
- Print material
- Website design and management
- Electronic communications
- Branding design, production and activation
Crucial to the success of most events is the partnering with relevant brands or businesses that can not only potentially invest financially but can add value to the event through services provided or amplification of the communication surrounding the event. We have a wealth of experience in both the sourcing, management and leveraging of benefit to sponsors.
Managing our clients’ reputations is an area in which we pride ourselves. We fully understand the processes of marketing and PR working in synergy, utilizing different strategies, platforms and markets but with a common objective.
Our areas of expertise in Public Relations include:
- Media relations and publicity
- Press releases
- Editorials
- Advertorials
- Newsletters
- Speech writing
- TV and radio coverage and management thereof
Event Operations
- Event and venue construction and infrastructure
- Working and partnering with multiple organisations on one event
- Presenting events on a national and international level
- Managing mass participation and spectators
- Managing and working within large event and hospitality budgets
- Over 250,000 participants annually
- Total annual operational budgets of over R50m
Logistics
We have extensive experience in managing event series that have a national footprint often working with tight time constraints.
Having regional offices with extensive local knowledge and trusted transport partners combined with a support team well drilled in long distance haulage and effective time management ensures we get from A to B on time often with vast amounts of infrastructure and branded collateral. To name but one example we have completed 7 years of The Color Run which takes place in 10 locations nationally.
“Leon, where do we begin to thank you and the Sportsvendo team for all the extra efforts to accommodate all of us with the Johannesburg J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge. We had an excellent race! We are appreciative of you & your team’s commitment to the Corporate Challenge – last night was a perfect kick off to the series. The Joburg event is the Jewel in the global series and appreciate how we are able to engage our clients, employees & the community at large.”