Today ...
... the sportsman media group GmbH counts 24 employees. the sportsman media holding with all subsidiaries has now more than 150 employees.

05/2009 Offenbacher Kickers FC
The football club Offenbacher Kickers and the sportsman sign a long term cooperation agreement for the marketing of all sponsorship rights.

12/2008 AREVA
the sportsman consults AREVA NP GmbH on an exclusive basis in implementing all its sponsoring activities for the local Nuremberg soccer club 1. FC Nürnberg.

04/2008 Duodomi
the sportsman media group holding introduces a new family member: Duodomi - the furnishing house (www.duodomi.net).

04/2008 Presidential Cycling Tour
the sportsman to distribute its first cycling event the Tour of Turkey, also known as The Presidential Cylcing Tour.

01/2008 Nestea European Beach Tour
the sportsman acquires all media rights to the Europes most important beach volleyball tour from GSM (CH).

10/2007 Confédération Européenne de Volleyball
the sportsman and the CEV sign a cooperation agreement for the distribution of media rights for CEV's Indesit European Champions League, the CEV-Cup and the Euroleague. Furthermore, the perties agree that LAOLA1.tv becomes the official online video portal of CEV's top competitions.

07/2007 LAOLA1.tv
The holding announces the launch of a new online video portal. LAOLA1.tv - Spirit of Sports" is a Sport TV format on the internet aimed to deliver high quality sports videos to the Austrian market.

08/2006 Deutsche Volleyball Liga
the sportsman and the Deutsche Volleyball Liga sign an exclusive agency agreement for the distribution of all media rights to Germany's top volleyball league.

07/2006 arena
the sportsman is chosen the exclusive acquisition agency for television sports rights for arena Sportrechte und Marketing GmbH, the new Pay-TV channel in Germany showing the Bundesliga. One of the sportsman's first major deals is the acquisition of the Spanish "Primera Division".

07/2006 Dinamo Zagreb
Dinamo Zagreb becomes the first international football club that is consulted by the sportsman.

06/2006 unas media production
beyond the sports media rights business and the web platform the sportsman media holding expands once more with the establishing of an own production company: unas media production GmbH, based in Vienna.

05/2006 Sport1.at
the sportsman media holding is founded by Karl Wieseneder and Thomas Krohne. During its first days, the sportsman media holding acquires the sports web platform Sport1 Multimedia GmbH.

12/2005 Bundesliga
the sportsman on behalf of bwin acquires all worldwide and exclusive media rights (television, internet, mobile) for the Bundesliga and is its exclusive international distribution and new media production partner.

12/2005 Vienna office
the sportsman opens an office in Vienna, Austria.

05/2005 Premiere Ligapokal
the sportsman is appointed the worldwide exclusive TV rights distributor for the Premiere Ligapokal for the years 2005 through 2007.

07/2004 UEFA Cup Bochum / Aachen
the sportsman signs its first exclusive club deal with the two professional German football clubs Alemannia Aachen and Vfl Bochum for their TV and marketing rights for the 2004/05 UEFA Cup season.

06/2004 bwin (BetandWin)
bwin and the sportsman start their ongoing cooperation with the evaluation and acquisition of several German Bundesliga clubs such as Werder Bremen as sponsoring and online partners.

06/2004 The Start
Thomas Krohne founds the sportsman media group GmbH.