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Mike Hutcheson: Marketing Expert on the NZR-Ineos settlement, what's next for the All Blacks? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Well. New Zealand Rugby and in Theos. Their sponsorship feud
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  Speaker 1: has officially ended in the High Court. New Zealand Rugby
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  Speaker 1: took the petrochemical company to task in he OS, we
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  Speaker 1: terminated a twenty one million dollar a year deal with
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  Speaker 1: the All Blacks brand. It's believed that Jim Ratcliffe, the
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  Speaker 1: billionaire and the owner of Inios, has now paid what
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  Speaker 1: it owed for the twenty twenty five deal. So that's good,
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  Speaker 1: and even offered a small additional payment on top.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Hutchinson is a marketing expert. He is a former
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  Speaker 1: managing director of Sachi and Sachi and despite being an
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  Speaker 1: advertising he's up early too. Good morning to you, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: I was just saying to your producer, I got working early.
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  Speaker 2: The cat jump on the bed, then followed by the dog,
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  Speaker 2: the dog of Bernie's Mountain dog. You know when she
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  Speaker 2: jumps on the bed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, very good. Are you Are you surprised that
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand Rubby did so well out of the court battle?
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  Speaker 2: I think in the end it's probably quite bene visual.
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  Speaker 2: Assuming that I could pick up the right kind of
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  Speaker 2: replacement sponsorship, I think they president't too badly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So where are we going from here and what
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  Speaker 1: lessons should we learn from all of this if we're
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  Speaker 1: looking for someone to replace ANYOS, Because we thought that
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  Speaker 1: in the OS was going to be great. It was huge,
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  Speaker 1: gym was rich and they have the money and they
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  Speaker 1: were proud of it all. And yeah there were some
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  Speaker 1: dodges looks about it because it was a petrochemical company.
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  Speaker 1: But we thought, this is good, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a regular income. Who should we be going for them?
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  Speaker 2: Well, sadly, they probably need to replace it with something
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  Speaker 2: like INEOS, I mean even an ulter ed of course
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  Speaker 2: who in a sponsored local are more infrastructure and some chemicals.
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  Speaker 2: But you need to chase somebody like a Jim Radcliffe
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  Speaker 2: or a moment Aldred who can make a call. If
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  Speaker 2: you're going to chase after a big corporation, you have
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  Speaker 2: to get buy in from everyone down the line and
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  Speaker 2: including a board of directors and so on. So it's
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  Speaker 2: best to go after an organization was run by someone
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  Speaker 2: perhaps even autocratic, but who can make a call quite quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And sadly that the numbers are very very small. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're a tiny country in the bottom right and court
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  Speaker 2: of the world. We're not well, I'm up there, certainly
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  Speaker 2: not in the States. The big the big players are
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  Speaker 2: in the States, and you've got to look hard to
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  Speaker 2: find someone who can afford just not to the r BLEX.
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  Speaker 1: So so you're saying that the All Blacks Jersey is
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  Speaker 1: really a vanity investment, someone who just like Cares.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon. I reckon because I mean sure, but see
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  Speaker 2: someone like Altrade. I think they're into infrastructure, scaffolding, you
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  Speaker 2: Petrick Chimal stuff. They build plants, they build big things,
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  Speaker 2: and I can imagine the halo effect of that for
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  Speaker 2: Ultrade is terrific. And I think that Altred himself, I
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  Speaker 2: think it was educated in France. He probably knows about
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  Speaker 2: the power of of of rugby and I've putting in
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  Speaker 2: France and in Europe and it's probably quite a good mix.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the that's the kind of person you're going
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  Speaker 2: to go after. You're not going to go after one
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  Speaker 2: of the big banks. You're not going to go after
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  Speaker 2: Microsoft or.
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  Speaker 1: Very good. Thank you so much for your expertise and
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  Speaker 1: going for the cat and the dog right now. For
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