Sunday 10 March 2013

Exclusive car spotted in King Power Stadium car park

A highly exclusive, limited edition car has been spotted in the car park at the King Power Stadium.

The 500bhp Benarrow PB5 car - registered as 37 BEN with a list price of €270,000 - has been previously spotted in Monaco and was parked amongst the players' cars during Leicester City's home fixture against Sheffield Wednesday.

The mystery of who the Audi-based car belongs to is yet to be solved, but whoever owns the car is part of a highly exclusive club: only three of the German-engineered vehicles have been produced.

Friday 1 March 2013

Club owners buy King Power Stadium

Leicester City's Thai owners have further increased their stakeholding in the football club with news today that they have purchased the King Power Stadium.

With their name above the door on an existing sponsorship deal and the majority shareholding of the club, the Srivaddhanaprabha family have furthered their commitment to the club with a £17 million investment to purchase the remainder of the stadium from Teachers, an American pension fund who acquired the ground when the club entered administration in 2003.

The stadium deal, which sees ownership transfer not to the football club but to King Power Holdings, frees £1.5 million in annual rental that the Foxes were paying to Teachers and makes the King Power group and their owners the sole creditors of the club.

It is unknown how much the Srivaddhanaprabhas have invested in the club and how much they have offered as loans.