Megaphone Events
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| Megaphone Events. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | Annecy-le-Vieux, Haute Savoie, France - 2003 |
| Headquarters | Annecy-le-Vieux, Haute Savoie - France |
| Key people | Frédéric Tochon, Cyril Dethyre, Sebastien Géroudet, Gilles Dary |
| Industry | Corporate and sporting Events |
| Products | Tifo, several animation products, Media solutions, seminars |
| Website | MegaphoneEvents.com |
Megaphone Events is a french company which specialises in the organisation of sporting and corporate events. It is based in Annecy-le-Vieux in the Haute-Savoie region in France.
The company started in the 90s when Gilles Dary and Frédéric Tochon discovered a tifo animation in the famous Italian popular stands: the curvas. They decided to professionalise this art and realised 11 tifos during the France 1998 Football World Cup.
[edit] Development
Gilles Dary and Frédéric Tochon created Megaphone Events in 2003 for the purpose of developping the tifo activity and organising sporting and corpoprate events. They continued their work with many clients such as the French Football Federation, the French Handball Federation and several clubs.
Cyril Derthyre joined Megaphone Events after spending 5 years in charge of the events section of the Val d’Isère ski resort.
Megaphone Media was created in March 2007 when Sebastien Geroudet joined the Megaphone team to develop the Media entity. Its activities vary from the creation to broadcasting, as well publishing and post-production actions.
On October the 20th 2007, Megaphone Events orchestrated the biggest tifo ever realised in France with 80000 people holding a giant patchwork during the France 2007 Rugby World Cup final at the Stade de France between England and South Africa[1].
