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Originally Posted by Kingair
Must be missing the dollars from the CL merchandise sales?
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Merchandise was reported a few years ago as earning 888 ~$1.5m per annum. This apparently took the form of taking that as a fixed commission, while a 3rd party actually ran/runs the merchandise program.
This was also before 888 added the Caltex Vortex Lowndes program, separate to the Red Bull branded team. A reduction in Holden dealers, and lack of support/success of the Commodore nameplate may also have reduced the potential of sales thru the red lion network.
HRT (Walkinshaw-style) back in the day mixed it up every year, so that their followers would get the latest and greatest hat/shirt/flag/stubbie holder because it was new. That the RBHRT cars/merchandise is kinda the same year on year might not be helping either