LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games) hit headlines again, but for all the wrong reasons. This time it is its decision to award the American company, Weldon, Williams & Lick of Fort William, the contract to print London Olympics tickets that has got the business community fuming.
Eleven million tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics Games will be printed in Arkansas, air-freighted 4,500 miles to the U.K. before being distributed to ticket holders at a £6 delivery cost.
A London 2012 spokesman said: “The contract to print tickets was awarded following a thorough, competitive and open tender...
