AEG is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world.  AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, owns or controls a collection of companies including facilities such as STAPLES Center (Los Angeles, CA), Prudential Center (Newark, NJ), Sprint Center (Kansas City, MO), The Rose Garden (Portland, OR), WaMu Theatre (Seattle, WA), XL Center (Hartford, CT), El Rey Theatre (Hollywood, CA), Colosseum at Caesars Palace (Las Vegas, NV), Target Center (Minneapolis, MN), Rentschler Field (Hartford, CT), NOKIA Theatre Times Square, NOKIA Theatre at Grand Prairie, Acer Arena (Sydney, AU), Color Line Arena (Hamburg) and The O2, a 28-acre development located in the eastern part of London along the Thames River which includes a 20,000-seat arena and over  650,000 sf of leisure and entertainment use; sports franchises including the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), Los Angeles Riptide (MLL), Manchester Monarchs (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), Houston Dynamo and Los Angeles Galaxy (MLS), two hockey franchises operated in Europe, the Hammarby (Sweden) Futbol Club and management of privately held shares of the Los Angeles Lakers; AEG Facilities, a stand-alone affiliate that operates or consults with more than 60 of the industries preeminent venues worldwide; AEG Marketing, a sponsorship, sales and consulting company; AEG Merchandising, a multi-faceted merchandising company; and AEG Creative, a full-service marketing and advertising agency.

In addition, AEG developed and operates The Home Depot Center, a $150 million national training center located on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California which has been designated as an “Official U.S. Olympic Training Site” by the United States Olympic Committee and features major facilities for soccer, tennis, track & field, cycling, lacrosse, rugby, beach volleyball, boxing, football, field hockey, basketball and other sports in addition to concerts and corporate retreats as well as The David Beckham Academy and (Andre)Agassi’s Safe Passage All Stars program.

Events such as the Amgen Tour of California cycling road race, the ING Bay to Breakers foot race and the East West Bank Classic WTA tennis tournament as well as an ongoing schedule of soccer exhibitions in the United States featuring the most popular international teams are part of the portfolio of AEG Sports.

AEG LIVE, one of the world’s leading concert promotion and touring companies, with thirteen regional offices, is comprised of stand-alone affiliate divisions devoted to all aspects of live entertainment including: AEG LIVE Events, creators and producers of special events of all sizes; AEG-TV, creators of live events for television, DVD, pay-per-view, cinema and other electronic media; and AEG LIVE Tours & Special Events, Concerts West, Goldenvoice, The Messina Group and AEG Exhibitions, the company’s national entertainment promotion and touring divisions.  AEG LIVE is currently overseeing two international museum tours of the artifacts of King Tut: “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” and “Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs,” and produced Celine Dion A New Day…Presented By Chrysler, a spectacular theatrical production starring Dion and directed by Franco Dragone which just concluded an unprecedented five-year “residency” at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.  AEG LIVE co-produces the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Goldenvoice, the company’s southern California-based regional promotion division created and operates the award winning annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.  

AEG is overseeing the development of L.A. LIVE, a 4 million square foot / $2.5 billion downtown Los Angeles sports, residential & entertainment district featuring  the recently opened NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE (7,100-seat live theatre), a 54-story, 1001-room convention “headquarters” hotel (combining The Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott brands and 224 luxury condominiums – The Residences at The Ritz Carlton – all in a single tower), Club NOKIA, a 2,300 capacity live music venue, a 14-screen Regal Cineplex, “broadcast” facilities for ESPN, along with entertainment, restaurant and office space. The company is also developing arenas including O2 World (on 45-acres in central Berlin), Citizen’s Business Bank Arena (Ontario, CA) and on the Las Vegas Strip.