Press Association has revealed a major expansion into the United
States by acquiring established US agency SportsTicker – creating a new
offshoot called PA SportsTicker.
It continues the expansion of PA Sport into a global business over the last seven years.
PA Sport produces editorial, data, sound and pictures on
more than 40 major sports around the world, much of it in real time.
It has offices in Hong Kong, South Africa, Singapore, Thailand and China, as well as representatives in Japan, New Zealand
and Australia.
SportsTicker
has been a leading sport information service in the US since 1909. It
claims to be North America's leading supplier of real-time sports news
and information and to have more than 850 on-site reporters providing
scores, stats and news.
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