Essent sponsor of the ISU World and European Speed Skating
Championships
Essent, the largest Dutch energy company, will be the new
title sponsor of the ISU World and European Speed Skating
Championships for the next four years, starting in 2009.
Essent has been the main sponsor of the Essent ISU World
Cup since 1998, which includes nine events per season in which
speed skaters compete to be the best and most constant participant
per single distance. As title sponsor of the ISU World and
European Speed Skating Championships Essent wants to clearly
demonstrate its active role as the main sponsor of speed skating.
ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta is very satisfied with the
extension of the Essent sponsorship: ‘It is a confirmation
of our warm cooperation and friendship during the last ten
years. For the coming four years this is a very important
support for the further development and expansion of speed
skating world wide’. Essent CEO Michiel Boersma: ‘I
am very proud that Essent will be the title sponsor of the
successful ISU World and European Speed Skating Championships.
The energy market is becoming more and more international.
This sponsorship is very important for the further development
of our brand name at home and abroad. Also, the agreement
with the ISU strengthens the image of Essent as being a major
supporter of speed skating’.
The sponsorship starts on 10 January 2009 with the Essent
ISU European Speed Skating Championships in Thialf.
About the ISU
The International Skating Union (ISU) is the governing international
winter sport federation responsible for Speed Skating, Figure
Skating and Short Track and is situated in Lausanne (Switzerland).
About Essent
With an annual turnover in 2006 of EUR 6.4 billion, Essent
is the largest power company in the Netherlands. Essent supplies
electricity, gas and heat to domestic and business customers.
Essent is active throughout the whole energy chain: from the
production of energy to the supply to the end users. The corporation
views the Netherlands as its home market, but has also built
up a considerable market position in Germany, and to an increasing
degree, in Belgium. The environmental branch of the group
processes waste into energy and residual currents. Approximately
10,000 people work at Essent.
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