As the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season begins, denture | Kwikset is announcing a partnership agreement with Richard Childress Racing and driver Jeff Burton.

Kwikset will have its logo on the No. 31 Chevrolet for every race this season, abortion | and will also be the primary paint scheme for the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 6. 

Kwikset will activate this partnership with a VIP infield hospitality presence at five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race weekends beginning with Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 10. There will also be significant activation at Dover International Speedway on June 2, health Chicagoland Speedway on September 15, Charlotte Motor Speedway on October 12 and Texas Motor Speedway on November 3.

“Richard Childress Racing’s focus on elite innovation strategies falls right in line with Kwikset’s brand promise to deliver smart, innovative security options to our customers,” said Greg Gluchowski, president, Hardware & Home Improvement Group at Spectrum Brands. “We are proud to align ourselves with excellence for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.”

“Safety and innovation are very important to Kwikset’s business, and as a driver, two areas that I’m very passionate about myself,” said Burton. “I am proud to have Kwikset as a partner this season.”

Burton has experienced tremendous success throughout his career in NASCAR’s premier division, which spans more than 20 years. The veteran driver has won 21 Sprint Cup Series races, and earned 132 top-five finishes, as well as 248 top-10 finishes with six pole awards.

The CEV Championship has announced Spanish energy giant Repsol as the title sponsor for the 2013 and 2014 seasons, drugs with the series now named the CEV Repsol.

The ultra-competitive series, viagra 100mg which is widely seen as the best stepping stone to the MotoGP class for ambitious and talented riders, will not only carry the Repsol name, it will also run solely on its Racing Effitec CEV fuel, which is mandatory for all teams in each category. This fuel was introduced in the CEV in 2011 in Moto2, Stock Extreme and the Kawasaki Ninja Cup categories, and was made mandatory for all categories from 2012.

Repsol, which has a long racing association within the MotoGP class and has already been involved in the CEV sponsoring teams and riders, will benefit further from the CEV’s popularity and high racing standard, with all Spanish race tracks on the calendar set to be clad in Repsol colours and graphics in bends, bridges and other parts of the circuit visible to fans and TV audiences.

Australian Rules football club, drugs Port Adelaide has announced today that Renault has joined as a new major partner.

The sponsorship marks Renault’s return to the Australian Football League (AFL) and demonstrates its confidence in the ambitious club, order while building on the company’s established commitment to Australia’s sporting and cultural landscape.

Port Adelaide Chairman David Koch said the club was thrilled to partner with Renault and honoured to wear such a long-established and internationally respected automotive brand on its guernsey.

“Renault is an established global company with a long history in Australia, including success in Australian motorsport, and Port Adelaide could not be prouder of this partnership,” Mr Koch said.

“With Renault joining us as a joint major partner, we have taken a very significant step in our strategic drive to broaden Port Adelaide’s brand and make ourselves a bigger player in the national market.

“We are very grateful for the support Renault has extended to Port Adelaide and the belief it has shown in our future.”

Renault Australia Marketing Director Chris Bayman said: “We are delighted to be part of the Port Adelaide transformation, and hope we can grow together, as we continue to strengthen Renault in Australia and Port Adelaide follows its vision.

“Like Port Adelaide, we see ourselves as a ‘challenger’ brand, with a strong sense of fun, competitive spirit, determination to succeed, and a never-say-die attitude.

“We are confident this partnership will expose more people to Renault and our family of attainable passenger, sports and light commercials vehicles.”

The Renault name and logo will appear on the back of Port Adelaide’s home guernsey and the front of its away and clash strips, and will make its AFL debut on the MCG where Port Adelaide and Melbourne clash in Round 1 on Sunday 31 March.

Mr Koch said Renault’s slogan – “Drive The Change” – was highly appropriate for Port Adelaide.

“Renault is changing and becoming a stronger competitor in its market with every passing year with growth of over 250% in the last two years and that’s certainly a perfect fit at Port Adelaide where we are undergoing some of the most significant change in our own long and successful history,” Mr Koch said.

“Port Adelaide was established in 1870 and Renault was founded in 1899 and while we have both been around for more than 100 years, we also share a great excitement for what the future holds.”

The National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) announced that Club Car will continue its industry-leading support by becoming the association’s exclusive Premier Partner.

The multiyear agreement extends the partnership that began in 2002 through 2017. 

Club Car, ampoule a brand of Ingersoll Rand, will continue to work with the association and its members on both the national and local levels to support educational programs and events, including the NGCOA Annual Conference and Golf Industry Show, the Multicourse Owners Leadership Retreat, numerous chapter events and other member activities.

The Premier Partner designation affords Club Car category and product exclusivity for sponsorship activities related to fleet golf cars, utility vehicles, transportation and food-and-beverage vehicles, as well as vehicle software applications related to fleet management.

“Club Car’s commitment to the NGCOA and to our members for more than a decade has enabled the expansion of programs, services and benefits that have strengthened the association and provided tremendous value to our members,” said NGCOA CEO Mike Hughes. “We appreciate the support and value the relationship offers with one of golf’s most respected companies.” 

“Owners and operators hold the key to the growth and vitality of the golf industry,” said Randy Marquardt, Club Car’s vice president of global marketing. “We’re pleased to help support the men and women who make such strong personal commitments to the courses, the facilities and the experiences that make golf such a special game to millions of people.”

Golf Australia has revealed that Get Wines Direct has joined the organisation’s suite of corporate sponsors.

The three year agreement, cheap launched during the 2013 ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open in Canberra, and sees the family-owned Melbourne based retailer sign on as a partner of Golf Australia.

Managing Director and Get Wines Direct founder Tony Sells said he saw strong connections between golf and the pursuit of excellence in business.

“At Get Wines Direct, capsule our mission is to continue delivering unsurpassed quality of product and service. Working with Golf Australia and the Women’s Australian Open is the epitome of that pursuit of excellence, so it’s our absolute honour to be supporting such a fine event and the organisation,” Sells said.

“For us, golf represents some of the best qualities in fairness, honesty and integrity which are values we are happy to align ourselves with. It’s also a sport where people are passionate about what they do and we feel the same in our business.”

Golf Australia CEO Stephen Pitt said the organisation looked forward to working with Get Wines Direct.

“We’re pleased to be working with Tony and his team at Get Wines Direct on the exciting years ahead for golf in Australia and in particular their support for the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open,” Pitt said.

Get Wines Direct has over 35 years experience in the Australian Wine Industry, developing contacts in every major wine region in Australia, while showcasing some fantastic locally produced big brand and boutique wines.

Tokyo-based ISPS (International Sports Promotion Society) is set to continue its sponsorship of the prestigious PGA Seniors Championship – one of the leading tournaments on the European Senior Tour schedule.

The ISPS HANDA PGA Seniors Championship has an increased prize fund of £260, link 000 and will be staged between 6-9 June 2013, at De Vere Mottram Hall.

“ISPS HANDA is pleased to again be sponsoring such a prestigious tournament as the PGA Seniors Championship and we look forward to seeing it staged at a new venue at De Vere Mottram Hall,” said Dr Handa.

“’We are also delighted to continue the unique ISPS HANDA PGA Academy Programme in partnership with the PGA which has already made great strides in giving blind and disabled golfers greater access to specialised coaching from PGA professionals.

“ISPS HANDA’s support for golf is founded on our belief in the power of sport. Sport has a unique ability to create hope, to breakdown educational and cultural barriers and to inspire people in a way that very little else does. It brings people together and unites communities around the world. This is why we are extremely proud of the growing success of the ISPS HANDA PGA Academy Programme.”

Daniel Hodson, Director of Golf for De Vere, is looking forward to working with ISPS HANDA for a second year as the tournament moves to the Cheshire venue of Mottram Hall, which has recently benefited from a £6million pound refurbishment.

The action, which will feature a number of legends of the game, will be staged on Mottram Hall’s 7,006-yard par 72 championship course, designed by Dave Thomas.

The championship, which was first competed for in 1957 and is the only 72-hole event on the European Senior Tour outside of the majors, will also see the continuation of the ground-breaking ISPS HANDA PGA Academy Programme to train PGA professionals to coach blind and disabled golfers, which was an overwhelming success in 2012.

ISPS HANDA, founded by Japanese philanthropist Dr Haruhisa Handa in 2006, supports a significant number of golf tournaments and initiatives across the globe as a platform to enhance the playing opportunities for blind and disabled golfers, with the wider aim of it being included in the Paralympic Games.

Charles Green, CEO of Glasgow Rangers has revealed the Scottish club have agreed a deal to sell the naming rights to their Ibrox stadium with sports retailer Sports Direct.

A deal is expected to be finalised in time for the beginning of next season with Green claiming there has been good feedback from the club’s supporters about the possibility of a deal. 

“We have now decided that Sports Direct will be the partner,” Green said on STV. “We are now into the stage where we are doing some layouts, some pictorials of how it might look and we’ll stick those on the website shortly so the fans can see what’s being proposed. 

“We have had good engagement from the fans on this. I think it was always an issue for fans but I think the fans accept now that this is something that we have to do. Almost all of the big stadia have been named now.” 

Sports Direct, the UK’s biggest sports retailing group, recently became the club’s official merchandising supplier. The company’s owner Mike Ashley is already a large shareholder in the Scottish Third Division side.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) will sponsor the Sprint Cup race next month at Texas Motor Speedway, doctor the track announced Monday.

The NRA 500 will be held on Saturday night on April 13.

This won’t be the first time that the NRA will sponsor a NASCAR race. Last year, drugs the NRA sponsored the Nationwide Series race at Atlanta, which, like Texas, is owned by Speedway Motorsports Inc.

TMS needed a sponsor for the race after Samsung decided not to renew its deal.

When the NRA announced the sponsorship of the Atlanta race, NASCAR spokesman David Higdon said the sanctioning body had no qualms with the sponsorship by the controversial political advocacy group for gun owners.

NASCAR issued a statement Monday afternoon saying it had no issues with that deal.

“Race entitlement partnerships are agreements directly between the track and the sponsor,” the NASCAR statement said. “NASCAR reserves the right to approve or disapprove those sponsorships. The race sponsor for Texas Motor Speedway’s April event falls within the guidelines for approval for that event.”

The NRA will have to abide by the sanctioning body’s guidelines that it uses to approve paint schemes as far as taste and messaging.

Guns are already prominent at Texas Motor Speedway, where the winners don cowboy hats and fire six-shooters in victory lane after the race.

Race sponsorships for major Cup events typically cost $1 million or more.

The deal is a one-year deal with a renewal option, TMS President Eddie Gossage said when making the announcement.

In a taped message, NRA Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre talked about the relationship between the NRA and TMS parent company Speedway Motorsports Inc.

“The NRA 500 is the latest announcement in a long history of a growing partnership between the NRA, Speedway Motorsports and the NASCAR community,” LaPierre said.

“NRA members and NASCAR fans love their country and everything that is good and right about our country.”