GUINNESS®

O2

O2 is proud to be associated with the leading rugby union league in the world as official mobile partner of the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP and official partner of the PREMIERSHIP RUGBY ACADEMY.  We aim to provide the players and fans with the best experiences in rugby, above and beyond our competitive and innovative mobile service.

For the fans: Keep in touch by getting the latest wallpapers and results from your local club straight to your mobile. Go to the Mobile section http://www.guinnesspremiership.com/mobile on this site or your club's website to find out more about the services on offer. Get closer to the action through our many O2 experiences - look out for your chance to train with the clubs, meet your rugby heroes, win signed shirts, be a mascot for a match and much more, courtesy of O2. If you're an O2 customer there are extra special offers on the blueroom website: www.blueroom.o2.co.uk/rugby

Learn from the best and take part in the Premiership Clubs' only official Rugby camp provider at the Premiership Rugby Academy. Every person taking part in a Premiership Rugby Academy course will get the chance to enter the O2 Kick, Pass and Run Challenge, the country's biggest rugby skills competition. For more information visit http://www.rugbycamps.com/

For the players: the players are the game's most important asset. We want to support them as best we can through our sponsorship and offer all GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP players competitive mobile packages, as well as the opportunity to meet a lot of their fans through our events like O2 Scrum in the Park.

For the clubs: we're not just a logo on a perimeter board. We provide the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP clubs with additional revenue generating opportunities by enabling their official mobile service, we reduce their communication costs with preferential mobile packages and we promote the game extensively to our millions of customers through our experiences and marketing.

LAND ROVER

Land Rover is the ‘Official Vehicle of England Rugby and Premier Rugby’ and uses its sponsorship to support the sport at both international and domestic level.  By providing each Premiership club with a new Discovery 3 vehicle to support their community programmes to local schools and clubs, Land Rover also reaches the grassroots of the sport.

Land Rover dates back to 1948 and sells in more than 140 countries, giving the company a truly global presence.  Renowned for making the ultimate 4x4s, products range from its flagship vehicle, Range Rover to the recently launched Freelander 2, the much acclaimed Range Rover Sport, Discovery 3 and the iconic Defender models. 

Land Rover is continually evolving into the 21st Century with relevant technology and bold, distinctive design and remains the unchallenged authority off-road. The heritage, raw power, competitiveness and ethos of professional rugby make for an ideal sponsorship association.
For more information please visit landrover.co.uk or call 0800 110110.
Premier Rugby contact:  Anna Gorringe , Tel 020 8831 7903  or  agorringe@premierrugby.co.uk 

CORAL.CO.UK

Coral.co.uk is now in its second year as the official betting and gaming partner of the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP and is even more determined to offer customers the very best in value in terms of the massive array of both domestic and international rugby union markets that it will be offering in the coming months.

The Coral brand is one of the world’s leading gaming and fixed-odds bookmaking businesses, established in the UK for over 80 years, providing the best in up-to-the minute and live betting opportunities across all sport,    In addition to its online business, it also operates over 1,550 licensed high street betting shops, a substantial telephone betting operation and two greyhound racing stadia.

Following on from its successful ‘Backing Rugby’ initiative last season, rugby and sports betting fans alike can enter free into the new Guinness Premiership Fantasy Game in association with Coral.co.uk and win some fabulous prizes (guinnesspremiershipfantasyrugby.com).

In this World Cup year, Coral.co.uk will be right at the heart of the live action from the big stage, by offering an array of traditional and diverse betting opportunities on the forthcoming World Cup. Coral.co.uk will also be providing customers with week-in week-out betting opportunities on all the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP rounds and major cup competitions across the season. Coral.co.uk will once again be aligned with Matt Dawson as he tries to pick out the value bets of the forthcoming competitions.   

For more information please visit coral.co.uk/rugby

MBNA Europe wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), is the recognised leader in affinity marketing. MBNA credit cards and related products and services are endorsed by more than 5,000 organizations worldwide. One of MBNA Europe’s key sport programmes is the current partnership with Premier Rugby as an official sponsor of the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP. 

As the official provider of Rugby Club Credit Cards, we offer supporters a chance to apply for their club's credit card by going to http://www.rugbycreditcards.com/. On approval of the credit card application, supporters will not only show pride for their team, their club will receive a contribution to invest into its future development. For more information or to apply on-line visit http://www.rugbycreditcards.com/ or the company’s website http://www.mbna.co.uk/

EDF Energy

EDF Energy is the Official Community Partner of Premier Rugby and helping every Guinness Premiership side and Cornish Pirates and Exeter Chiefs introduce rugby to more than 112,000 children through the EDF Energy National Schools Rugby Programme, one of the most comprehensive schools programmes in world rugby.
 Our commitment to the sport spans the game from the grassroots, to domestic competitions the EDF Energy Cup – rugby’s wild frontier – the EDF Energy National Trophy, EDF Energy Intermediate Cup, EDF Energy Senior and Junior Vase and, through our parent company EDF, sponsorship of the IRB Rugby World Cup 2007. EDF is also a major partner of European Rugby Cup Ltd, organiser of the Heineken Cup and the European Challenge Cup.
EDF Energy is one of the UK’s largest energy companies, providing power to a quarter of the UK’s population via our electricity distribution networks in London, the South East and the East of England. We supply gas and electricity to over five million customers and generate about 5GW of energy from our coal and gas power stations, as well as combined heat and power plants and wind farms. 
 Every new product and service we launch will help customers improve their energy efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint.
 Go to http://www.edfenergyrugby.com/

SKY SPORTS

Sky’s unparalleled rugby union coverage screens every GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP matches in high-definition to viewers throughout the UK and Ireland, providing Sky HD viewers with a cinema-like experience with sharper, clearer, more vibrant pictures. 

Sky Sports has covered the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP for over a decade, offering the first weekly coverage of the domestic game.  Simon Lazenby and Alex Payne are on-hand to present the action, while the regular duo of Stuart Barnes and Miles Harrison provide on-air commentary for viewers.  The Front Line and studio analysts include ex-international stars Will Greenwood, Michael Lynagh and Dewi Morris, with Graham Simmons pitchside.

Alongside the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP, Sky Sports covers international, european and southern hemisphere competitions, as well as age-grade and women’s matches.

Sky Sports’ weekly rugby union magazine show, The Rugby Club, provides in-depth previews, analysis and reaction from the world of rugby union each Thursday throughout the season. 

 

Suppliers

THE TIMES

The Times and Sunday Times are pleased to take their association with The GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP into a sixth year, reflecting our commitment to the game and our readership.  The coverage offered by both titles is second to none with a line up led by Jonny Wilkinson, Simon Barnes, Jeremy Guscott, Stuart Barnes and Stephen Jones.
 
For a constant update on the latest rugby news see www.timesonline.co.uk/rugby

GILBERT

GILBERT has been manufacturing the highest quality rugby balls since William Gilbert first supplied Rugby School in 1823. As Official Ball Supplier to the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP, we are proud to continue to provide balls of the highest quality to one of the world’s toughest competitions. A comprehensive range of club replica and supporter products is available for fans to buy from their club’s shop.
 
The modern GILBERT is however much more than just balls: over the past decade, the company has expanded into all rugby product sectors and is now one of the few brands capable of equipping a club with all of their rugby needs. In addition to supplying the match balls for use in the competition, GILBERT also provides all of the RFU's elite referees with their match and off-field kit as well as all of the GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP clubs with the GUINNESS® branded pitch kits used in the competition.
 
For more details on our full range and a list of retailers stocking GILBERT’s products, please visit http://www.gilbertrugby.com/ 

 

ZEN INTERNET

Zen is the official wireless broadband supplier to Premier Rugby, guaranteeing reliability and backing it up with award-winning support.

We are the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that can't stop winning business, consumer, and IT awards, plugging businesses and homes into the Internet since 1995. Zen has consistently proven to be a reliable and successful supplier of award-winning Internet services.

Our current product portfolio ranges from the latest in high speed broadband Internet access, leased lines, complete Web hosting packages, IP VPN and VoIP to Web site design and managed network security.

We have achieved success through a path of steady and gradual expansion, firmly based on the most reliable technologies. We help our clients maintain a high level of product awareness, to ensure that the latest developments in Internet technology are readily available to them.

 Improving quality of service and ongoing high standards of customer care will remain at the heart of Zen’s business philosophy. If your organisation is seeking reliable and well supported Internet services anywhere in the UK, Zen Internet is the choice to make.

 For more information, please visit our web http://www.zen.co.uk/

LOOKING TO BECOME AN OFFICIAL PREMIER RUGBY PARTNER?

If you represent a company interested in becoming an official Premier Rugby Partner, please contact Anna Gorringe on agorringe@premierrugby.co.uk