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The Group Bringing Luxury’s Marketing Playbook to Women’s Sport

Mercury/13, a recently launched group focused on acquiring and transforming women’s football teams, is taking cues from the luxury industry to rebrand the first club in its portfolio, FC Como Women.
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Mercury/13, which pledged $100 million for the acquisition of women's football properties, acquired FC Como — it's inaugural team — earlier this year. (Mercury/13)

Mercury/13 believes it has a winning strategy for women’s football teams: branding them as if they were luxury labels.

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Daniel-Yaw Miller

Daniel-Yaw Miller is a contributing writer at The Business of Fashion. Miller is a New York based journalist, editor and advisor who specialises in sports, fashion and business.

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