{"id":33388,"date":"2015-04-21T15:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=33388"},"modified":"2015-09-08T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:55:54","slug":"brock-university-signs-partnership-deal-with-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/04\/brock-university-signs-partnership-deal-with-nike\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock University signs partnership deal with Nike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Brock University has become one of the distinguished few schools in Canada to sign an exclusive product deal with Nike, the world\u2019s leading athletic brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<div id=\"attachment_33390\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33390\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33390 \" title=\"Brock\/Nike\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nike-brock11.jpeg\" alt=\"Brock University has signed a partnership deal with Nike\" width=\"515\" height=\"290\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock University has signed a partnership deal with Nike<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While Nike supports many schools in varying degrees, Brock is joining an elite family of Canadian universities that have a full partnership with the company for all of their competitive sports teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the four-year deal signed this week between Brock\u2019s Campus Store and T. Litzen Sports, the exclusive service provider for the Nike Team program, all Brock Badgers men\u2019s and women\u2019s sports teams will wear Nike uniforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cNike\u2019s brand recognition and quality is unparalleled and I have been so impressed with T. Litzen\u2019s commitment to partnering with us. This is going to be very exciting,\u201d said Brock Interim Director of Athletics and Recreation Robert Cargnelli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While the Nike branding and athletic wear innovation will help differentiate Brock\u2019s athletes from their competition, the rest of the University will also benefit from the partnership. The school\u2019s Athletics &amp; Recreation department will work closely with the Campus Store, which will also carry a full line of Nike-branded Badgers products for students, faculty, staff, and the public to purchase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThis is part of our integrated retail strategy that was envisioned a few years back. I am happy to see such exciting results from our departments working more closely together,\u201d said Tom Arkell, <\/span>Associate Vice President, University Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Adds Dan Lewis, Director Campus Store, \u201cWe are proud to be able to facilitate a partnership of two outstanding brands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In addition, the Campus Store will be working to strengthen the Brock Badgers brand identity both within the Brock community and throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis partnership with Nike will be beneficial for students, athletes and fans of the Badgers. We want to see Badger pride spread across Niagara, the community we\u2019re proud to be part of,\u201d said Brian Hutchings, Vice-President, Finance and Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ryan Denholm, National Sales Manager for T. Litzen sports, said Nike Team is \u201cthrilled\u201d to be the new brand supplier for the Badgers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cBrock boasts a rich history of success and brings a high standard that is admired throughout the Niagara Region and beyond,\u201d he said. \u201cBy adorning Badger athletes in \u2018The Swoosh,\u2019 we look to further enhance their capabilities utilizing the authenticity of the world\u2019s leading sports brand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Badger\/Nike partnership is facilitated through T. Litzen Sports Key Accounts Coordinator, Samantha Ryder.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University has become one of the distinguished few schools in Canada to sign an exclusive product deal with Nike, the world\u2019s leading athletic brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33393,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388\/revisions\/33393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}