RE: next week looking good26 Feb 2023 08:43
And to counter your other assertion that Frankfurt 22 was a “disappointment” and by extension will be too this year no doubt, if you do some actual research and calculations based in the information supplied by the company, if it had sold out the profit (to lvcg) would have been close to £1m IMO. That’s consistent with them settling for $1m fixed fee for Japan in lieu of a profit sharing formula. Provided they get a good line up for Frankfurt 23 it will sell out IMO. Remember that Frankfurt 22 was their first foray into this KPOP format, something that didn’t even exist in the company 6 months before that, and there are now 4 of these festivals on the books for this year, with the promise of more to come. ??Frankfurt 22 sold 65,000 tickets over 2 days at an average price of €86. It generated an overall £160,000 profit and in addition lvcg recovered £137,000 staff costs. I understand that the initial cost contribution for last year is to be recovered too, but I’ll discount that. The 2nd day was a bit last minute.com, plus this was conducted just out of covid and the line up was messed around a bit because monsta x decided to stay on in the USA an extra day so only came for the 2nd day before heading to start their national service. That drove up the costs for the 2nd day, especially for the acts, and the short notice meant that the 2nd day didn’t reach capacity. If the 2nd day had sold out the total capacity is 86,000 for 2 days, giving an additional 23,000 ticket sales at an average of €86 = €1.978m or £1.76m giving an additional profit share of £880,000 to LVCG (as the costs for both days would have stayed the same the same). So that’s a £960,000 profit to LVCG if the 2nd day had been sold out. Plus with more tickets sold that would have meant more merchandise sales. ?
As I mused yesterday, anyone can post whatever they want, but don’t be surprised if you are subsequently called out for posting false and misleading information. I also mused that whenever that happens rather than the posters admitting they got it wrong instead it always results in further attacks. Thanks for proving my point ;-). Honestly there’s enough actual negatives with lvcg without resorting to just making stuff up.