eBay Motors, ampoule the largest online automotive marketplace, buy is now sponsoring the Best Buy Racing Rallycross Team and partnering British driver, David Binks.

The sponsorship begins in the run-up to round four of the Global Rallycross Series, which takes place as a partner event of this weekend’s NASCAR Nationwide Series at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, on the east coast of the United States.

The sponsorship will see the Best Buy Racing Rallycross Team adopt a new livery with a primary presence for the iconic identity of eBay Motors on the #17 car for David Binks and will be fully unveiled later this week as the team prepares for competition.

In his debut year as a GRC competitor, David holds fifth place in the Championship following a strong and consistent points showing in all of the first three rounds of the series.

Best Buy’s Mark Williams said, “This is the second in a series of sponsorship announcements, but a hugely significant agreement for Best Buy Racing to partner with a global brand. I am also confident that this positive news is testimony to the interest and attention that Global Rallycross and David Binks are generating as leading contenders in the series. Best Buy Racing is delighted to be able to offer eBay Motors a strong platform that aligns with their ongoing efforts to be the top destination for motor enthusiasts.”

eBay Motors is the premier marketplace for all things automotive, offering auto enthusiasts everything from cars and trucks to collector cars, exotic vehicles, motorcycles, and parts and accessories. More than 4.55 million vehicles have been sold on eBay Motors to date. Auto enthusiasts are also using the eBay Motors iPhone app to access the eBay Motors experience from the palm of their hand, anytime, anywhere. More than 340,000 auto parts and accessories are sold through eBay mobile apps each week.

Barclays have agreed a three-year extension to their Premier League deal with the major british bank remaining a global sponsor of English competition until 2016.

The deal, ampoule with a value of £40m ($61.6m) a season to the Premier League, search will run for three seasons from 2013/14 to the end of the 2015/16 season.

The agreement includes the global title sponsorship of the Premier League and exclusive worldwide marketing rights, UK and international TV programme accreditation, extensive advertising rights, match day tickets and hospitality as well as joint community activity.

Barclays and the Premier League will continue the successful Barclays Asia Trophy tournament and the Barclays Premier League Trophy Tour that will next visit Africa and the USA.

The Barclays Premier League is broadcast for over 185,000 hours a season reaching 212 territories and over 650 million homes with a cumulative global audience of 4.7 billion.

The Atlanta orthopedic doctors at Southern Orthopaedic Specialists have renewed their sponsorship of the BB&T Atlanta Open for the third year.

Sponsorship by the Atlanta orthopaedic clinic for the championships gives the Atlanta orthopedic doctors from Southern Orthopaedic Specialists the unique opportunity to provide medical care for the athletes, their families, and the tournament staff.

This will be the third year that the Atlanta orthopedics clinic has provided both medical care and sponsorship to the BB&T Atlanta Open.

“We love taking care of the athletes, staff, and families involved in the BB&T Atlanta Open,” explains Dr. Michael Behr, Atlanta orthopedic surgeon at Southern Orthopedic Specialists. “It’s such a fun event, and we feel like our Atlanta sports medicine expertise will help keep everyone involved much healthier and speed the recovery of any injury sustained by the competitors.”

The BB&T Atlanta Open will take place this year from July 14th through the 22nd, and will be hosted at Atlantic Station. It is the first ATP tournament of an eight tournament series which leads up to the US Open. Southern Orthopaedic Specialists is proud to be a big part of such an important event in the world of tennis.

The FRS Company, discount manufacturer of the Healthy Performance(TM) line of products, therapy | has announced that it will be an official sponsor of the 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games, an annual fitness competition created and operated by CrossFit, Inc. 

Elite athletes compete at the CrossFit Games for the crown of the Fittest on Earth(TM) and a piece of the $1 million purse. The Games, now in their sixth year, will be held July 13-15 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, CA and broadcast worldwide on the ESPN network.

“FRS is excited to announce our partnership with CrossFit and support these athletes in their pursuit of greater performance,” commented Matt Kohler, Chief Marketing Officer, The FRS Company. “CrossFit is a natural fit for us, and supports our overall mission to fuel a healthy, active lifestyle for athletes and fans alike.”

Open to competitors from around the world through the official website at crossfitgames.com, the CrossFit Games have been named “one of the fastest growing sports in America,” by Forbes. The season kicked off with the Open, with nearly 70,000 competitors participating online and at CrossFit affiliated gyms worldwide. The top athletes and teams in each region from the Open move onto the 17 worldwide Regionals. The best athletes and teams at Regionals will compete at the finals of the 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games.

“We’re thrilled to have FRS support the CrossFit Games,” said Steve Weiss, Corporate Development, CrossFit, Inc.  “The relationship with FRS was a natural fit given the emphasis they place on trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. We believe the Games are the ultimate test of fitness, and partners like FRS help support our search for the fittest man and woman on earth.”

With the Olympics looming Kumho Tyre UK has become an official partner of GB Taekwondo.

In doing so, anesthetist leading global tyre manufacturer Kumho has provided a welcome boost to the team as it begins its final preparations for London 2012. Fresh from its best ever medal haul at the European Championships in May, therapy GB Taekwondo is ranked as one of Britain’s best medal hopes for the impending Olympic Games. The marriage is a natural one too, medicine with Kumho Tyres being part of the giant Seoul-based Kumho Asiana Group, and the team being one of the world’s leading exponents of Taekwondo, the national sport of South Korea.

Kumho Tyre UK’s Managing Director Kie Myung Choe, said:: “We are extremely excited to be involved with these fine athletes and very much look forward to assisting their endeavours at London 2012 and beyond. We are naturally very proud to have achieved this link with a sport that is so close to Korean hearts, and is now thought to have some 70 million exponents around the world. We are also deeply impressed by GB Taekwondo’s series of national initiatives that’s aimed at identifying talented young people and helping them to reach their full potential.”

Gary Hall, Performance Director at GB Taekwondo added: “We are delighted to agree a partnership with Kumho Tyres as we make our final preparations for the Games this summer. The backing of such a strong global brand will not only help us put the finishing touches to our 2012 planning, but support our aims for the wider development of the sport in the UK.

“We share a common goal in seeking maximum performance and there are some fantastic opportunities to achieve this with Kumho Tyres in both the short and long term.”

Taekwondo first became an Olympic sport in 2000 and Great Britain is now regarded as one of the world’s top Taekwondo nations, with some 600 clubs supporting 100,000 practitioners. No less than 17 British athletes comprise the ‘World Class Performance Programme’. They are drawn from all over the country and are trained at the sport’s national headquarters in Manchester.

The Olympic Taekwondo competition runs from August 8 to 11.

TMone chooses Tommy Baldwin Racing (TBR) to promote the company in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

TMone, link with locations in the Midwest and Northern Great Plains, medicine delivers new jobs to America’s hometowns. Call Center Outsourcing is a people business, generic and TMone is in the business of augmenting and supplementing other companies human capital needs. TMone has grown every year since inception and is on Inc. Magazine’s Honor Roll List of Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies for the last five years.

TMone’s growth has been as a result of providing business services to customers that are driving forward with new initiatives such as Business to Business (B2B), Inside Sales Services and Customer Service Selling (CSS) in uncertain regulatory and economic environments, therefore TMone’s new jobs are truly new to the private sector. TMone helps service and sell legacy and incremental customers so TMone clients can focus their human capital on their core businesses, which in return drives jobs internally and externally.

“We are privileged to be on one of TBR’s cars at their home track along with primary sponsor Mohawk Northeast,” said Anthony Marlowe, TMone’s President. “Al Heinke and Tommy Baldwin have built a very respectable program and have brought TMone home 23rd and 11th the last two races, giving us our best ‘Cup finish yet. TBR is doing a great job earning our long-term support, and Reutimann’s fans have taken our TMone Racing Facebook Company page to a whole new level with their support. The virality of their posts and likes has helped double our Facebook following. NASCAR works.”

TMone has sponsored one or more cars in all 19 NSCS races this season. The company has teamed up with TBR for seven of those events, including a primary partnership at Kentucky Speedway and co-primary partnership at Daytona International Speedway. Reutimann drove the No. 10 CarportEmpire.com/TMone.com Call Centers in America Chevrolet to TBR’s best finish this season last weekend when he tallied an 11th-place finish at Daytona International Speedway.

“We are thrilled to work with TMone once again,” said Tommy Baldwin. “TMone has been a great partner to us, and it is an honor to be able to promote a fast growing company that is currently hiring for jobs located in the Heartland. This is a special weekend for me since I consider New Hampshire my home track, so I am glad that we have companies like TMone to help us compete.”

StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace, has signed a ground-breaking deal with Sunderland FC (SAFC) to serve as the club’s official secondary ticketing partner from the 2012-13 season onwards.

The deal represents StubHub’s first Barclays Premier League partnership and major club sponsorship outside the US since entering the UK market in March of this year.

StubHub is the world’s largest ticket resale marketplace, providing fans with a safe, convenient and regulated place to buy and sell tickets to the sporting events, concerts and shows, through its innovative StubHub.co.uk website.

The online fan-to-fan ticket exchange will offer a particular benefit to Sunderland season card holders by giving them the ability to sell their seasonal seat for any game they are unable to attend. They will dictate the price and they can sell direct to fellow Black Cats fans.

The partnership is ground-breaking in the industry as there are no restrictions on the pricing – tickets are listed at a price set by Sunderland season card holders and sold at a price determined by the market. 

Season card holders are the only ones who will set the prices for Sunderland tickets on StubHub – the club will not dictate pricing and StubHub, as a core part of its business model, never sells tickets or sets any prices on its site.

Supporters can list tickets for all home games and buyers can purchase seats on StubHub.co.uk, its mobile site, and mobile applications.

SAFC Marketing Director Mike Farnan said: “StubHub enters the UK market with a powerful reputation from more than decade in the US where they are recognised as the biggest and best-respected brand in secondary ticketing. This fits perfectly with our club ethos of affiliating ourselves with brands who are market-leaders in their field.

“StubHub impressed us hugely with their commitment to fans and this mirrors our own aims to provide Sunderland fans with the very best goods and services. Season card holders are the lifeblood of any football club and here at Sunderland we are fortunate to enjoy a vibrant and thriving season card holder base, and we hope they will enjoy the significant benefits of this unique partnership.”

Brigitte Ricou-Bellan, General Manager, International at StubHub said: “As a new entrant to the UK market, we recognise the power of the SAFC brand and the passion its supporters have for the club. We have a similar passion for serving fans and are looking forward to working with the club to provide its supporters with a best-in-class marketplace and experience.

“This deal represents a first for the industry and we are honoured to partner with a club as progressive as Sunderland AFC. We are confident that our approach to ticketing and e-commerce will be beneficial to the club, the industry, and most importantly, consumers.”

In addition to providing the official ticket marketplace, StubHub will serve as a Platinum Partner of the club. StubHub will also provide SAFC supporters with the chance to win seat “upgrades” for certain matches, as well as the opportunity to win a number of “money can’t buy” experiences.

Moet & Chandon will be the Official Champagne of The PGA of America, after an agreement between the two companies.

Under the agreement with The PGA of America, Moet & Chandon will be present at all the important and commemorative moments of the competitions including the iconic “Trophy Moments.” In addition, golf fans at PGA of America events will be able to enjoy their golf with a logoed commemorative mini Moet bottle that will likely become a valued memento.

“One of the world’s most recognized champagnes of choice at premier events, The PGA of America is proud that Moet & Chandon will serve as the Official Champagne of The PGA of America,” said PGA of America President Allen Wronowski. “We cannot envision a better addition to the many magical moments at our Championships than Moet & Chandon.”

Moet & Chandon’s status as the ultimate symbol of success, achievement, and victory was created through an unwavering and triumphant presence at many of the world’s most esteemed competitions and high-profile moments. Moet & Chandon has been at the finish line of international boating and car racing competitions for nearly a century, including the Vanderbilt Cup, Formula One, 24 Hours of Le Mans and the America’s Cup. Moet & Chandon celebrates the elegance and style of tennis on the courts of the U.S. Open, and Roland Garros Barclays ATP World Tennis in London.

Moet & Chandon also symbolizes triumph atop the world’s most revered podiums, including the Cannes International Film Festival, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Academy Awards.

“Moet & Chandon’s partnership with The PGA of America is a natural,” said Ludovic du Plessis, Vice President of Moet & Chandon North America. “Through the magic of champagne, we look forward to creating unique and unforgettable Moet Moments together with The PGA of America and sharing our sense of celebration in the spirit of success and glamour beginning with the Ryder Cup in September as its Proud Partner.”

Moet & Chandon, the champagne of success and glamour since 1743, is enhancing its rich heritage as an icon of victorious celebration and global winning moments with this first foray in American golf, beginning with the Ryder Cup, in September of 2012 in Medinah, Ill.

 

Volvo Car UK is the latest brand to join forces with the Extreme Sailing Series, as Official Car Supplier to the Cardiff leg of the series.

As well as providing a fleet of cars to the Extreme 40 teams and event organisers to assist with the complex logistics of running the only UK leg of the 2012 Series, some of Britain’s top sailing talent including Team Volvo sailors and 2012 470 World Champions, Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark, Olympic gold medallist (Laser) Paul Goodison, RS:X windsurfer Nick Dempsey and Lucy Macgregor’s ‘Match Race Girls’, will also be present in Cardiff to try their hand at a completely different type of sailing post the 2012 Olympic Games.

Volvo Car UK has been a key sponsor of British sailing since 1999, supporting everything from youth development at grass roots through to Britain’s top sailors at the pinnacle of the sport. That support includes a group of 17 elite, inspirational British athletes who will compete on home waters this summer just two weeks before the event in Cardiff. 

The Extreme Sailing Series pits some of the world’s best sailing teams against each other on identical Extreme 40 catamarans, and is synonymous with the ‘stadium’ style racing – putting spectators right at the heart of the action.

This will be the first time the Series visits the Welsh capital between the 30th of August and the 2nd of September, opening to the public from 31st August, as part of the Cardiff Harbour Festival with thousands of spectators expected to descend on Cardiff Bay to see the high-speed adrenalin-fueled Extreme 40s take to the water there for the first time.

Volvo will host a selection of shore-based activities during the Act including the chance to meet the Team Volvo sailors, an exhibition of the latest Volvo car range including the all-new V40  plus the chance to win prizes and race virtually against the sailors on the RYA Volvo Sail for Gold game.

Huddersfield Town have continued their commercial activity by securing national appliance specialist Appliances Direct to sponsor Huddersfield Town’s brand new official club website as part of a new commercial partnership.

Huddersfield Town’s Commercial Director Sean Jarvis and Advertising Manager Mark Jacobs are pictured with Appliances Direct’s Managing Director Nick Glynne at its huge showroom on Leeds Road, denture Huddersfield.

The new agreement, cialis which will also see the company sponsor the bar at Canalside Sports Complex and appear on the Club’s fixture cards for 2012/13.

Jarvis said: “We’re proud to carry the name of yet another Huddersfield-based business that is making a national impact on our new official club website which will be launched soon and I would like to welcome Nick and Appliances Direct on board with us.  Forging strong and long lasting relationships with both businesses and community right across our Heartland is central to our plans.

“The Club has admired the BuyItDirect group for some time due to its impressive work on a national scale and we’ve worked long and hard to get them on board, so we’re delighted to have joined forces. Their Appliances Direct wing is growing at a fantastic rate and our partnership will be a success for all of us.”

Appliances Direct Managing Director Nick Glynne added: “I am delighted to be involved with the Club. We have been in Huddersfield for 12 years and are proud to support our local team.

“Like Town, we are moving up – we are well on the way to becoming the largest independent Appliance seller in the UK. It is great news for our local customers – our new showroom on Leeds Road offers the best of both worlds – low internet prices together with a huge range of stock to take away today.”

Appliances Direct is the specialist appliance division of the BuyItDirect Group. BuyItDirect has an annual turnover in excess of £100m ($155m) and employs over 150 staff. The company has been around for 12 years and is still expanding.