ICON, one of the world's leading event branding specialist, has been
appointed by FIFA to deliver the signage programme for the 2014 FIFA
World Cup Brazil., it was announced today.
The contract covers branding and wayfinding at all 12 stadiums, the
International Broadcast Centre, Football For Hope Festival, airports and
selected host city decoration and official hotels. The project is being
run by a highly-experienced team based in Brazil with production
services being delivered by a network of carefully selected partners in
all of the host cities.
ICON Managing Director, John Francis, said: "One of the greatest
legacy stories of such a momentous year for us is that the Olympics and
Paralympics have given us a fantastic and probably unique platform to
build our business around the world with new business such as FIFA
contract in Brazil. There is a natural curiosity about who delivered the
distinctive look and feel which was a central part of what made the
Games so memorable."
ICON, the company responsible for the entire London 2012 Look and
Feel programme, also provided all the signage for the recent FIFA
Confederations Cup Brazil.
During London 2012 ICON facilitated15,701 lamp post banners; 1100
feather flags; 321 backdrops; 92 kms of fence fabric for Olympic and
Paralympic venues; 310 installers on a single day driving 60 vans;
advising forty-nine local authorities in the UK on how to dress their
towns and cities; sixteen 3D Paralympic logos and fourteen 3D Olympic
rings.
ICON, which is now part of the recently formed Chime Sports &
Entertainment (CSM) group, provides a wide range of branding-related
services from signage to high-profile sponsor activation projects and
the explosion of new business in this specialised sector has
strengthened their operations in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and
South Africa, and spawned new offices in Brazil - the venue for the 2016
Olympics and Paralympics - and Russia, the venue for the 2014 Sochi
Winter Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup in 2018.
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