Today the Los Angeles Lakers and DWS announced a multi-season global sponsorship agreement making DWS the Official Global Investment Sponsor of the team. DWS is one of the leading asset managers ...

which means the DWS logo will stay on Villa’s £30 shirts until May 2006. The deal with Villa is worth £1m a year and was struck in May 2004 after the withdra-wal of MG Rover as sponsor.