Sponsors & Exhibitors

IMG is the world's premier sports, entertainment and media enterprise.

Operating in 30 countries, IMG's diverse businesses include: consulting services; event ownership and management; fashion events and models representation; licensing; golf course design; and client representation in golf, tennis, broadcasting, speakers, European football, rugby, cricket, motor sports, coaching, Olympic sports and action sports. IMG Academies are the world's largest and most advanced multi-sport training and educational facilities, delivering world-class sports training experiences to more than 12,000 junior, collegiate, adult, and professional athletes each year.

IMG's media and entertainment operations include content production subsidiaries Darlow Smithson Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions. Globally, IMG produces and distributes more than 11,000 hours of sports, documentary, drama, comedy, entertainment, popular factual and children's content annually. IMG also represents the broadcast rights to many of the world's premier sporting events and has the world's largest sports archive with more than 250,000 hours of footage.

Forstmann Little & Co. purchased IMG in 2004. More information about IMG is available at
www.imgworld.com.


 

Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal is the industry’s leading weekly trade publication, providing breaking news and comprehensive reporting and analysis on sports business. With 80 reporters, editors and guest columnists, SBJ keeps its readers up to date on the latest developments in sports marketing, sponsorships, media, facilities, agents and labor, finance and more. For more information, visit www.SportsBusinessJournal.com

Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily is the leading daily provider of real-time news and information for sports business executives, tracking more than 500 news sources worldwide, including newspapers, television and radio. SBD keeps its readers on top of the day’s events and ahead of the news cycle. For more information, visit www.sportsbusinessdaily.com.

Both publications are part of the Street & Smith’s Sports Group, which consists of the Street & Smith’s Conference Group, the Sports Business Resource Guide & Fact Book, NASCAR Illustrated and SceneDaily.com. Street & Smith’s is a division of American City Business Journals (ACBJ), which comprises weekly business journals across the country, BizJournals.com, Hemmings Motor News, Sporting News Magazine, Sporting News Yearbooks, Sporting News Today, Sporting News Radio Network and SportingNews.com. ACBJ is part of the Advance Publications family.

For nearly 25 years, Joyce Julius & Associates has been measuring and evaluating corporate sponsorships. In that time our methodologies have set the standard in sponsorship research. Our mission today, as it has been since the company's inception, is to provide industry-leading third party research, with an emphasis on accuracy and customer service. Please visit us at www.joycejulius.com.

Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two wireless networks serving more than 48 million customers at the end of the third quarter of 2009 and the first and only 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. The company’s customer-focused strategy has led to improved first call resolution and customer care satisfaction scores. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.

NASCAR is the sanctioning body for one of North America's premier sports. NASCAR is the No. 1 spectator sport - holding 17 of the top 20 highest attended sporting events in the U.S., and is the No. 2 rated regular-season sport on television. NASCAR races are broadcast in more than 150 countries and in 20 languages. NASCAR fans are the most brand loyal in all of sports, and as a result more Fortune 500 companies participate in NASCAR than any other sport.  For more information, visit www.nascar.com.

 The leading provider of high-quality, large-format, full-color banner solutions, Britten, Inc. has been a trusted partner of some of the worlds’ best-known and most discerning companies, helping them gain international brand visibility and credibility for more than 20 years. At our 185,000-square-foot facilities in Traverse City, Michigan and Wyoming, more than 170 experienced professionals continue to drive the cutting edge in banner design, production and installation. Our unrivaled capabilities, culture of innovation and unmatched commitment to customer satisfaction put us at the forefront of our industry and make Britten the smart choice of businesses of all sizes. To learn more, visit www.brittenbanners.com or call 1-800-426-9496. 

 NuBoard Media Sports Group is a sports marketing agency with proprietary rights to one of the most effective in-venue activation concepts available in sports marketing today. The company offers two results-driven services: a unique media vehicle on venue seats & full agency services. For more information, visit www.nuboardmedia.com.

Experiential Marketing Incorporated is dedicated to providing clients innovative marketing units designed to enhance brand identity. EMI connects your brand with your audience through its show car program, interactive trailers and simulators, its quality custom fabrication shop, as well as its popular street-legal 2-seat Indy cars and NASCAR machines.  For more information, visit http://theemisolution.com/.

NASCAR SCENE provides comprehensive, in-depth, week-to-week coverage of NASCAR’s three top series — Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World series. Using the strength and experience of the world's largest, dedicated NASCAR newsroom,  NASCAR Scene features race results, season points standings, race coverage, news, team profiles, interviews, opinions, humor, fan reaction and new developments in the world of NASCAR.

Each issue of NASCAR ILLUSTRATED provides an up-close and personal look at the lifestyle of the people who make NASCAR’s top series the most exciting racing in the world. Readers find everything from profiles of their favorite drivers, crew chiefs and NASCAR legends, to home tours and behind-the-scenes breakdowns of racing in the “Anatomy of . . .” department. The magazine is also a showcase for arresting photography that puts fans in the middle of the action at the track and illustrates the NASCAR lifestyle off the track. An emphasis on quality production, bold editorial content and eye-grabbing design makes NASCAR ILLUSTRATED a feast for NASCAR fans’ senses.

The award-winning reporting, photography and commentary that has made our weekly magazine, NASCAR Scene, the industry leader and fan favorite, now has a digital home — www.scenedaily.com. Our readers know they can come to scenedaily.com to get the latest news, behind the scenes reporting and in-depth analysis they have become accustomed to finding in the print version. In addition to the top quality journalism featured in our weekly magazine, scenedaily.com, also boasts up-to-the-minute breaking news and exclusive content available only online.

For sponsorship and exhibit opportunities, please contact Julie Tuttle at 212-500-0711 or jtuttle@sportsbusinessjournal.com.

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For PROGRAM information, including ATTENDANCE, please contact Laura Case at 704-973-1446.

For information on SPONSORSHIP opportunities, please contact Julie Tuttle at 212-500-0711.