& leisure founded 1983 headquarters london 69 offices worldwide key people james sinton regional gm jon stromberg regional gm products hospitality packages at leading sports events worldwide parent marcus evans group slogan excellence in vip hospitality website www.thgsports.com thg sports the hospitality group provides sports ticketing services and corporate hospitality programmes at sporting events around the world 1 it has 69 offices globally and has around 3 000 employees who provide access to over 350 major events each year . it focuses primarily on soccer rugby american football athletics horse racing formula one motor racing and tennis . the company is owned by the marcus evans group whose other sporting interests include ownership of ipswich town football club english league champions in 1962 . 2 contents 1 history 2 offices 3 london olympics 2012 and olympic tickets 4 football association of ireland fai 5 super bowl 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit thg the hospitality group was founded in 1983 as the division of the marcus evans group whose goal it was to combine corporate hospitality with premier international sporting events . it has organised hospitality functions at distinguished events like the us grand prix world cup soccer masters us open and the final four . the company has steadily expanded ; its core business diversifying into the provision of business intelligence through business conferences summits business training and the publication of comprehensive reports on strategic industry issues . in october 2000 the new corporate identity and image was announced as marcus evans . offices edit thg s european headquarters are based in london . its north american headquarters are in chicago with offices in san diego and montreal . london olympics 2012 and olympic tickets edit in 2010 the olympic council of ireland oci appointed thg as its official ticketing agent for the 2012 london olympics and the 2014 olympic winter games in sochi . 3 in early 2011 following the announcement from the london organising committee of the olympic and paralympics games locog a division of thg thg sports tours was confirmed as authorised ticket reseller atr for three european olympic councils ireland greece 4 and malta 5 ahead of the london 2012 olympic games taking place from 27 july to 12 august 2012 6 the company is one of several overseas official ticketing agencies which are currently in the spotlight due to a series of unfortunate incidents of fraudulent ticket touting on unauthorised websites . 7 popular consumer watchdogs like the bbc s moneybox programme 8 have been strongly advising people to only deal with official ticket agencies as listed on the main london olympics 2012 website . 9 football association of ireland fai edit dublin s aviva stadium on the site of the old landsdowne road stadium was officially opened in may 2010 and is the venue for home matches for its main tenants the irish rugby union team and the football association of ireland fai team . thg is the sole hospitality provider for fai games at the stadium . citation needed super bowl edit in 2011 thg celebrated its 20 year association with super bowl hospitality in dallas texas . 10 see also edit marcus evans references edit thg sports website . thg sports . ipswich town football club . ipswich town football club . oci appoint ticketing agency for london 2012 games . irish olympic committee website . london 2012 ticket retailers . london 2012 ticket retailers . 2012 olympics tickets moc appoints thg sports tours as official london authorised reseller . . malta independent . 5 . 2012 olympics tickets moc appoints thg sports tours as official london authorised reseller . horizontal tab character in date at position 3 help ; check date values in date help marcus evans company thg appointed olympic ticket reseller . marcus evans website news . olympic ticket tout crackdown . sky news . retrieved sky news article on olympic ticket touts . check date values in access date help bbc money box programme . bbc money box programme . 26 march 2011 . london 2012 ticket retailers . london 2012 ticket retailers . thg celebrates 20 years of super bowl hospitality . thg blog . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title thg sports & oldid 736764980 categories companies based in londoncompanies established in 1983event management companieshidden categories cs1 errors invisible characterscs1 errors datespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 august 2016 at 18 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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