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.

English League Two club, Mansfield Town have announced Riley & Co. Ltd have agreed to continue their support of the team heading into the new Football League season. 

The painting and decorating contractors have been big supporters of the club for the last five years, during which time they have pledged sponsorship in numerous ways.

Director Steve Devine-Bradbury said: “As a local company and with the directors being life-long Mansfield Town supporters, we feel it’s a worthwhile cause supporting our local team.

“Hopefully, we can contribute to a successful and sustainable future for our town and professional football club, which has been through difficult times in recent years.

“Nevertheless, through the sheer determination of the existing chairman, management, staff, sponsors and loyal supporters, the club has returned to the Football League.

“On behalf of Riley & Co. (Mansfield) Ltd, we would like to congratulate the club on its success and look forward to an exciting season ahead.”

Mansfield Town Commercial Manager Paul Nyland said: “It’s a great pleasure to have Riley & Co. on board for another season.

“To have the continuous support from Steve and everyone at Riley & Co, just proves that we are working with some outstanding local companies.

“We would like to thank Riley & Co. not only for their unquestionable support of Mansfield Town, but also for their work in helping us with our ongoing ground improvements.”

Getty Images have extended their long-term partnership with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) until the end of 2016.

As part of the deal, pharm Getty Images will continue to act as the Official Photographic Agency of the IPC and will cover the upcoming Paralympic Games in Sochi and Rio, viagra cheap | as well as a number of other major para-sport events. 

In addition, the IPC may access Getty Images’ extensive digital content archive and use all wholly owned images from the Paralympic Games and other para-sport events for all “below the line” communication purposes. 

“I am delighted to continue our successful partnership with Getty Images, the Official Photographic Agency of the International Paralympic Committee,” said Craig Spence, IPC Media and Communications Director. 

“By providing their images to a wide selection of media organisations worldwide, Getty Images is a vital partner in making the Paralympic athletes known around the world and spreading the message of the Paralympic Movement.” 

”We are honoured to renew our partnership with the IPC at this exciting time in the development of the Paralympic Movement. Getty Images is committed to capturing the world’s best sports photography to help the IPC communicate the values and achievements of Paralympic sport to the widest possible audience,” says Ken Mainardis, Vice President of Sports Imagery and Services at Getty Images. 

The first agreement between Getty Images and the IPC was signed in 2004 before the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games and ever since Getty Images has been a valued partner of the Paralympic Movement.

Yamaha Motor Europe will continue as an ‘Official Supplier of Toyota Racing’ for the 2013 season in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The agreement will see Yamaha providing 16 Yamaha EC-03 electric (2-wheeler) vehicles for team mobility. Yamaha will also supply two ATV machines to the team.

Yamaha Motor Europe began their positive collaboration with Toyota Racing in 2012, medic providing the EC-03 electric vehicles in the racing team’s first year in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The season proved to be a hugely successful one with the team’s TS030 HYBRID car competing and winning three of its six races. Toyota Racing took an impressive three wins from six races, nurse receiving the Team Rookie of the Year Award from the FIA and ultimately being named as the best new WEC team of 2012.

Andrew Smith – Vice-President, prostate Sales and Marketing, Yamaha Motor Europe, said:
“We are very pleased to be able to continue to work together with Toyota Racing through 2013.

Whilst their TS030 HYBRID racing car is bringing tomorrow’s hybrid technology to the race track, we continue to pioneer electric vehicles for the street, contributing to a cleaner, low carbon society. It makes our EC03 electric vehicle on 2 wheels a natural choice for Toyota Racing. As two of Japan’s most respected automotive manufacturers with amazing histories and current exploits at the highest levels of international racing it’s also a pleasure to be connected with an eye on the future! We would also like to congratulate Toyota on reaching an incredible milestone this year, having now produced over five million hybrid cars!”

Yoshiaki Kinoshita, Toyota Racing Team President added: “Our TS030 HYBRID has been developed using advanced motorsport engineering. It is the result of extensive research and development at both at Toyota Motorsport GmbH in Cologne and Toyota’s Motor Sport Division in Japan. Toyota, like Yamaha, has a long history in motorsport; we both continue to write new pages as we develop and move forward with the next generation of machines.”