On May 25th about 20 people/organisations attended the Orange Sports Forum meeting at the United Broadcast Facilities’ offices in Hilversum.

At this meeting the parties discussed the Orange Sports Forum’s agenda. The Orange Sports Forum is charged with developing a network of and for Dutch companies and organizations, in order that they can widely market their knowledge and expertise on sports to (up and coming) markets and relations, with their counterparts in these up and coming countries.

The Orange Sports Forum wants to develop into a network where sport associations, sport technical companies and businesses with a strong affinity for sport can meet. The companies and organizations can share knowledge within this network and profile in the field of sport expertise and, where necessary, develop business opportunities together. The persons present stated that the establishment of such a platform in the Netherlands seems definitely significant.

 The sports market in India is considered as one of the first markets that will be explored by Orange Sports Forum. This market is in full development and therefore offers great opportunities. We want to research how we, the Orange Sports Forum, can work together to apply these opportunities and how we can establish a structural relation with the Indian sports industry.

This means that we, in the near future, want to apply ourselves together with the other participants, to establish and extend the Orange Sports Forum network. Secondly we will research how we can give further shape to our relations with Sports India.