Zappa 0 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 If at the end of next Friday16th March the Administrators don't let us all know who the bidders are They're not going to do that mate. Well, I can't see it put it that way. They're trying to get the interested parties to show their hands by next Friday so that they can form a better picture of the genuine and more importantly, viable interested parties. I could be wrong of course, but I can't see them revealing the identities of the various bidders. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forlanssister 3,066 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 AEG does not solely do catering. They own concert halls, sports arenas, football, baseball, icehoecky, and basketball teams. Lost in translation, I think 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,363 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Lost in translation, I think Actually, when the O2 World (Berlin) opened, we had an in-house caterer company for a couple of years. Once their contract ended, the owners of this hall (Anschütz EG) hired a "new one", the same that was already in place at the O2 World in Hamburg. And guess what, it is owned to 30% by Anschütz too. Keeping the profit in the house, so to speak. Hence I assumed you were referring to that caterer branch of AEG, not a company that goes with the same name. Coming to think of it, maybe AEG buys the land besides Ibrox and builds another, there, 15.000 all seater or 17.000 seats & standing arena? Costs roughly 170m, lots of jobs, ideal place for the Masters, and the curling championships, boxing, darts, concerts, and ... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
metlika 0 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Wouldn't trust a far east owner, don't want somebody like the Birmingham owner. Unsure about an American, Liverpool springs to mind, really unsure about anybody at the moment. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ergatrude 0 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Coming to think of it, maybe AEG buys the land besides Ibrox and builds another, there, 15.000 all seater or 17.000 seats & standing arena? Costs roughly 170m, lots of jobs, ideal place for the Masters, and the curling championships, boxing, darts, concerts, and ... I think this suggestion would far more likely get the appropriate planning permission than a SuperCasino. Would it make money in Govan though? I'm sceptical. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,363 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 The O2 Worlds over here (Berlin & Hamburg) are making money because they have the local icehockey and basketball teams* playing 3 to 6 matches a month in front of 10k to 15k from early August to early May. Inbetween lots of concerts. But honestly, that would be AEG's concerns, not ours. ;-) *Partly or wholly owned by AEG. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 They're not going to do that mate. Well, I can't see it put it that way. They're trying to get the interested parties to show their hands by next Friday so that they can form a better picture of the genuine and more importantly, viable interested parties. I could be wrong of course, but I can't see them revealing the identities of the various bidders. If I was them (and no doubt you will be glad that I am not) I would ask all potential bidders to put up a deposit of say £100,000 (perhaps more) which would be refundable if you make a serious bid with PROOF i.e. real proof not CW type proof that you have the necessary dosh by 31/3 failing which you lose your deposit. That would sort the men from the boys. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse With No Name 0 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 And yet as stated elsewhere there's only three serious bids - I think I was right there they're (rightly) trying to get more from these offers. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Funny how nobody seems to be taking the AEG offer very seriously, I would think that Rangers fall into their company visions pretty well. They get a well known football team who has possibly the possibility to build other sport facilities or entertainment centres. I actually think they are a serious candidate. the only thing I don't like about them was trying to get out of paying people back for the Michael Jackson O2 concert by offering them souvenir tickets. AEG is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world. AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, owns or controls a collection of companies including facilities such as STAPLES Center (Los Angeles, CA), Prudential Center (Newark, NJ), Sprint Center (Kansas City, MO), Citizens Business Bank Arena (Ontario, CA), The Rose Garden (Portland, OR), WaMu Theatre (Seattle, WA), American Airlines Arena (Miami, FL), Verizon Theatre (Grand Prairie, TX), The Colosseum at Caesars Palace (Las Vegas, NV), Target Center (Minneapolis, MN), NOKIA Theatre Times Square, Acer Arena (Sydney, AU), Wukesong Arena (Beijing), Ahoy Arena (Rotterdam, NL), Globe Arenas (Stockholm), Qatar National Convention Centre (Doha), O2 Hamburg arena (Hamburg), O2 World arena (Berlin) and The O2, a 28-acre development located in the eastern part of London along the Thames River which includes a 20,000-seat arena and over 650,000 sf of leisure and entertainment use; sports franchises including the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), Manchester Monarchs (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), Houston Dynamo & Los Angeles Galaxy (MLS), two hockey franchises in Europe, the Hammarby (Sweden) Futbol Club and management of privately held shares of the Los Angeles Lakers; AEG Facilities, a stand-alone affiliate that operates or consults with more than 90 of the industries preeminent venues worldwide; AEG Merchandising, a multi-faceted merchandising company; AEG Creative, a full-service marketing and advertising agency and AEG Global Partnerships, a division responsible for worldwide sales and servicing of sponsorships naming rights and other strategic partnerships. In addition, AEG developed and now operates The Home Depot Center. The $150 million national training center, located on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California, is an Official U.S. Olympic Training Site that features elite facilities for soccer, tennis, track & field, track cycling, boxing, lacrosse, rugby, football and other sports. The Home Depot Center also hosts concerts and family shows and is the home of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA. Events such as the Amgen Tour of California cycling road race, the Bay to Breakers foot race as well as an ongoing schedule of soccer exhibitions in the United States featuring the most popular international teams are part of the portfolio of AEG Sports. AEG Live, one of the world's leading concert promotion and touring companies, with fifteen regional offices, is comprised of stand-alone affiliate divisions devoted to all aspects of live entertainment including: AEG Live Events, creators and producers of special events of all sizes; AEG-TV, creators of live events for television, DVD, pay-per-view, cinema and other electronic media; and AEG Live Tours & Special Events, Concerts West, Goldenvoice, The Messina Group and AEG Exhibitions, the company's national entertainment promotion and touring divisions. AEG Live is currently overseeing two international museum tours of the artifacts of King Tut: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" and "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs", and recently promoted concert tours have included artists such as Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, The Black Eyed Peas, Carrie Underwood, Leonard Cohen, Kelly Clarkson, Wisin & Yandel, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Kenny Chesney, Paul McCartney and American Idols Live. AEG Live co-produces the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Goldenvoice, the company's southern California-based regional promotion division created and operates the award winning annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. AEG oversaw the development of L.A. LIVE, a 4 million square foot / $2.5 billion downtown Los Angeles sports, residential & entertainment district featuring Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE (7,100-seat live theatre) and Club Nokia (2,300 capacity live music venue), a 54-story, 1001-room convention "headquarters" destination (featuring The Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels and 224 luxury condominiums - The Residences at The Ritz Carlton - all in a single tower), Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 movie theatre, "broadcast" facilities for ESPN, along with entertainment, restaurant and office space. The company is also developing 12 arenas in China and arenas in Stockholm and Las Vegas. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ergatrude 0 Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Where did the AEG rumour come from? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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