Marriott Hotel has signed English European Tour player Tom Lewis as a brand ambassador.

Under the terms of the arrangement the former Walker Cup player and Tour winner will wear the Marriott logo on his sleeve and will represent the renowned hotel group on his travels around the world.

Marriott hold 11 Championship venues across the UK alone, clinic and the affiliation with Tom Lewis provides yet further evidence of the brand’s on-going investment in the game.

“We are delighted to announce that Tom Lewis has signed a deal to act as a Brand Ambassador for Marriott, therapy ” said Alison Ainsworth, Senior Director for Golf Europe.

“He is one of Britain’s brightest rising stars and as such is well-placed to promote the Marriott name wherever he plays.”

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank Marriott for their interest in me,” said Lewis. “I look forward to working with them and to helping raise the company’s profile amongst golfers of different countries.”

Eden Resources, a Singapore-based company that organises seminars, events and training, will back two tournaments on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association circuit next season to the tune of £5,000. 

Eden, which also promotes the pursuit of excellence in sport, currently sponsors Hannah Jones – the 16-year-old World Ladies Junior Champion, who guested on the Snooker Legends tour – and Belgium star Wendy Jans, the women’s European champion. 

Boss Chris Chuah explained that he was “personally inspired” by players like Mandy Fisher, Stacey Hillyard and Allison Fisher who “were as good as the men” during the golden age of the women’s game. 

“I hope that this humble sponsorship will go some way towards raising the profile of the ladies’ game and encourage more women players to take up the sport,” he said. 

“The reason why we are sponsoring WLBSA is to hopefully inspire other companies to do likewise for women’s snooker, which certainly deserves greater recognition and support. 

“Reanne’s entry into the Wuxi is a big step for ladies’ snooker and the timing of our sponsorship could not have been more opportune. 

“Eden is prepared to renew sponsorship for two years for the same amount if we can get 32 participants for each event.” 

The WLBSA will run eight snooker ranking tournaments and a billiards event next season. Eden is sponsoring the Masters and the World Championships. 

The Northern Snooker Centre, Leeds, will host the World Championships next Easter and have promised £2,000 for each of the next three years. 

WLBSA founder and chairman, Mandy Fisher, said: “It’s wonderful news that Eden Resources have chosen to sponsor ladies’ snooker and that the Northern Snooker Centre have added substantial sponsorship to make the World Championships a fantastic event. 

“Reanne’s success in qualifying for China is perfect timing for a bright future for the ladies game.” 

WLBSA secretary and treasurer Vicky Carter said: “It’s great for ladies’ snooker that Eden Resources have offered us their support and backing. 

“With their help, and Reanne’s recent publicity, we hope to get ladies’ snooker back to where it used to be.” 

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association is keen to “build on the current momentum” and see more women compete on the pro-circuit. 

Its chairman, Jason Ferguson, explained: “We’re doing all we can to assist the resurgence of the women’s game. 

“Hopefully, initiatives like Ladies Day at the World Championship and the CueZone Into Schools programme will help get more women playing snooker and in years to come we could see them competing on the professional tour. 

“It was a fantastic achievement from Reanne Evans to qualify for the Wuxi Classic and hopefully by working together with Mandy Fisher and the WLBSA we can build on the current momentum.”

Bose were today unveiled as an official partner of the Virgin Active London Triathlon.

Philip Carpenter, order MD of Bose in the UK commented: “We’re excited to come on board as a sponsor of this year’s Virgin Active London Triathlon, allergy the world’s largest triathlon that takes in the sights of this stunning capital. This training session demonstrated Bose’s great alignment with the event, providing a fantastic product which can be used in training and the ability to provide high quality sound to the route.”

As part of the deal the Virgin Active London Triathlon will feature a Bose music station positioned on the run section to keep runners motivated.

Jo Carritt, professional triathlete and part of the Challenger World Triathlete team, commented:

“It was good to put the new Bose SIE2i headphones to the test during today’s brick session. I’ll definitely be using them as part of my training ahead of the Virgin Active London Triathlon and it’s great I’ll be able to listen to the some quality music around the course too.”

The Virgin Active London Triathlon, will take place on the 27th – 28th July.

USA Triathlon announced today that DJO Global, pills a leading provider of high-quality, vialis 40mg orthopedic devices, will be an official Silver-Level Sponsor through 2014.

They will be a sponsor of the recovery zone at USA Triathlon-owned National Championship events.

In addition to cold therapy products, DJO Global’s Compex line will be introduced to members through the partnership, allowing safe customization of training to exercise more muscle fibers in less time and to recover more quickly, which in turn gives athletes an opportunity to achieve peak performance every day.

DJO Global and Compex will support USA Triathlon members and endurance athletes as an Official Sponsor of USA Triathlon-Certified Training and Performance Centers. 

The partnership will also provide support to the USA Triathlon National Team.

“We are excited about our partnership with USA Triathlon. We look forward to providing USA Triathlon’s top-level athletes and coaches with the training tools they need to achieve peak performance,” said Ryan Dolan, Sales and Marketing Director for DJO Global and Compex. “We will also be partnering with various Certified Training and Performance Centers around the country to provide consistent training and recovery products as needed.”

The International Melges 24 Class (IMCA) has announced that high performance sailing clothing specialist Magic Marine will be the title sponsor of the 2013 Magic Marine Melges 24 European Championship, to be held at Medemblik, Netherlands from 15-22 August.

In addition to the partnership with ISAF Connect To Sailing and the Dutch Sailing Federation, this new agreement extends Magic Marine’s support of sailing around the globe.

“The Melges 24 has always been on our radar as a beautiful class and boat with excellent organization,” commented MBrands President and CEO Max Blom Sr. “Magic Marine has specific products built for sportsboats and we want the chance to have these products seen. The fact that the European Championships are in the Netherlands for the first time due to the recent success locally, made the decision to sponsor this event a no brainer.”

Also supporting the event as Official Footwear Supplier will be Lizard Footwear. Other sponsors already confirmed for the 2013 Magic Marine Melges 24 European Championship include North Sails One Design, who will support the event as a Day Sponsor, and Supporting Sponsors De Pooter Olie, a Dutch owned fuel distribution company, and AEZ Leichtmetallräder, producer of high quality wheels for the motor industry.

Some 80 teams are expected to race in the championship which will be Europe’s biggest Melges 24 regatta of the season. 

The regatta will be based at the purpose built Regatta Centre Medemblik with racing managed by the Royal Yacht Club Hollandia and the IMCA’s Hank Stuart presiding as Principal Race Officer.  The regatta will run from 18 to 22 August.

Hilton HHonors, sale the loyalty program for Hilton Worldwide’s 10 distinct hotel brands, drugs has revealed an extension to its partnership with USA Gymnastics as official hotel partner through 2016.

The multi-year partnership will focus on support for top athletes and more than 100, pharm 000 members of the organization.

Hilton HHonors will continue its support of Team Hilton HHonors, a program that provides financial support to male gymnasts to help offset their training and living expenses while they pursue their Olympic dreams.

Three members of the 2012 U.S. Men’s Olympic Team – Jonathan Horton of Houston/Cypress Academy, Danell Leyva of Miami/Universal Gymnastics, and John Orozco of the Bronx, N.Y./U.S. Olympic Training Center – and the three Olympic alternates (Chris Brooks of Houston/Cypress Academy, Steven Legendre of Port Jefferson, N.Y./University of Oklahoma, and Alexander Naddour of Gilbert, Ariz./USA Youth Fitness Center) were members of Team Hilton HHonors in 2012. The new Team Hilton HHonors will be named in the near future.

“Hilton HHonors was an important part of our athletes’ success in 2012,” said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. “In addition to providing direct financial support for top male gymnasts, HHonors also contributed to our national team’s comfort and rest by financing improvements at the USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center at the Karolyi Ranch. HHonors also delivered benefits to our entire organization through hotel room discounts. We look forward to building upon that foundation through the comprehensive partnership on our road to Rio de Janeiro and the 2016 Olympic Games.”

“Hilton HHonors is proud to extend its partnership with USA Gymnastics, continuing our commitment to the U.S. Olympic Movement and Olympic hopefuls,” said Jeff Diskin, executive vice president, commercial services, Hilton Worldwide. “We were honored to contribute to valuable initiatives in 2011 and 2012 to assist USA Gymnastics athletes in their pursuit of Olympic gold and we look forward to opportunities over the course of the next three years to continue that effort.”

This follows Hilton HHonours inking a deal with USA Volleyball yesterday.

Danish footwear brand ECCO have signed German golf star Marcel Siem as an ambassador.

He will wear the brand’s luxurious golf shoes in competitions worldwide and showcase the ECCO logo on his headwear.

A three-time winner on the European Tour – most recently the 2013 Trophée Hassan II – Siem is currently ranked No. 58 on the Official World Golf Ranking. The 32-year-old plays a global schedule that includes a significant number of PGA Tour events. He notably finished T10 this April at the Valero Texas Open.

“The ECCO brand is remarkably well known and respected for the quality of its shoes throughout Germany and the rest of northern Europe,” says Siem. “This is especially true of the golf collection and the Tour Hybrid in particular, which looks like a traditional shoe but offers me the convenience of a spikeless outsole.”

Tour Hybrid features a classic leather upper design atop the award-winning Street outsole featuring the ECCO dynamic traction system (E-dts). It combines hand-crafted elegance with advanced shoemaking technologies to create a style which uniquely and seamlessly transitions from the boardroom to the car to the country club.

“Marcel finished just outside the top-10 in Europe last year and has played at an impressive level on the PGA Tour as well in 2013,” says Jesper Thuen, ECCO Global Sponsorship and PR Manager – Golf. “Having him on our team will further strengthen ECCO Golf brand awareness in key markets worldwide.”

ECCO golf shoes are also worn in competition by Tour stars Fred Couples, Graeme McDowell, Thomas Bjorn, Thongchai Jaidee, Stuart Appleby, Andreas Hartø, Wu Ashun, JB Hansen, Belén Mozo, Gerina Piller, Caroline Masson and Line Vedel Hansen.

Audi New Zealand has announced it has secured the naming rights sponsorship of the Audi quattro Winter Games NZ for 2013.

General Manager of Audi NZ, denture Dean Sheed, said: “After 33 years of leading the world in quattro permanent all-wheel drive technology, and with the five millionth quattro vehicle having rolled off the assembly line this year, it makes perfect sense that Audi would lend its support to the Winter Games and the sports most closely associated with quattro.”

Sheed says that there are some powerful synergies around the partnership. “Audi is really at home in the snow. We were the first to host New Zealand’s leading ice and alpine drive programme in the Southern Alps – the iconic Audi ice experience – and internationally Audi is the key sponsor of a number of winter sports events and teams in the Northern hemisphere, so the addition of the Winter Games sponsorship here in New Zealand is hugely exciting.”

Sir Eion Edgar, chairman of Winter Games NZ, said the partnership was a major boost for winter sports in New Zealand. “Audi’s sponsorship of Winter Games NZ is fantastic news, not just for the Games but also for the development of winter sport in New Zealand. It enables us to achieve our objectives of profiling winter sports in New Zealand and providing our athletes and communities with a world-class event.

“Just as Audi pioneered the development of four wheel-drive vehicles like the quattro, which we all now rely on to get us safely up to the ski fields, so Winter Games NZ is breaking new ground for winter sports events in the Southern Hemisphere. The eyes of the world will be on the Audi quattro Winter Games NZ as the best in the world come and compete for their spot at Sochi 2014 and we can’t wait!”

Convergys Corporation, medical a global leader in customer management, has announced it will sponsor the tour of Fulham FC to Costa Rica next July. 

The team will play a series of fixtures against last season’s Primera División Club Sport Cartaginés, Liga Deportiva Alajuelense and Deportivo Saprissa.

This is the first time that a Contact Center sponsors a Premier Soccer League coming to the country. “We are delighted to welcome Fulham FC to Costa Rica and couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to showcase the talent of our country and our love for sports”, said Jason A.C. Brown, Convergys Costa Rica Country Manager.

Convergys has organized a series of events on social media and at the different sites, to engage employees and the general public.  We invite everyone to like us on facebook/ConvergysCR to learn more about the different contests and activities. We will give away a T-shirt autographed by Fulham FC among those who join our activities online.

The three games will take place at the National Stadium in San José, July 14th, 17th and 20th.

Convergys currently employs over 2000 employees in Costa Rica and has four contact centers in Heredia and San José.