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GREEN BAY - The Green Bay Packers are raising
prices between $3 and $5 per ticket for the 2012 season.
Tickets in Lambeau Field's end-zone sections
will increase $3 to $72 per game, tickets from the 20-yard line to the end zone
will increase $4 to $80, and tickets between the 20s will increase $5 to $92.
Suite tickets also will increase $5 to $92.
"For the Packers, ticket revenue continues
be an important component of our ability to remain financially competitive with
the other 31 NFL teams," Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy said
Thursday in a letter to season ticket holders. "Our goal each year is to
be at the league average in terms of our ticket prices. This increase maintains
our position near the league average."
The team's season-ticket waiting list currently
stands at approximately 96,000.
The Packers have made the playoffs three years
in a row, following up on their Super Bowl victory with a 15-1 regular season
and a loss to the New York Giants in the divisional round of the playoffs.
In his letter, Murphy also updated ticket
holders on the Lambeau Field expansion project, which includes a new sound
system, two new video boards, 6,700 additional seats in the south end zone, two
new gates and a new concession sales system. The project will be completed in
time for the 2013 season. The video boards are expected to be in place for
2012.
"Our investment in the stadium will
continue to provide value to the top-rated game-day experience at Lambeau
Field," Murphy said.
The Packers are funding the $143 million
expansion project partly through a stock sale, and have sold more than 250,000
shares at a cost of $250 each — even though the stock's value will not go up
and there are no dividends. Stockholders get voting rights and can attend
annual meetings.
The Packers are the NFL's only publicly owned
team.
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