Great five year strategic partnership between bwin and Olympiacos BC
Olympiacos BC is delighted to announce a new partnership with GVC Holdings which will see the Group’ bwin brand become the official shirt sponsor of Olympiacos, for the next five years: 2018-2023!
GVC is one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming groups. Via their unique proprietary technology platform, they operate some of the industry’s most popular online brands including bwin, Sportingbet and Ladbrokes.
GVC holds licenses in more than 20 countries. The Group is listed in the London Stock Exchange (LSE:GVC) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. The annual revenue of the Group exceeds 3bn Sterling, while it employs in excess of 28,000 employees.
The partnership will run for five years, from the 2018-19 season to 2022-23 during which bwin will be Grand Sponsor of Olympiacos BC. An official presentation of the partnership will be held soon, where further details and objectives of this unique agreement will be provided.
Statements:
Nikos Lepeniotis, Chief Commercial Officer, Olympiacos BC: «We are excited and proud to be the first Greek sports organisation to partner with the GVC Group and its famous bwin brand. GVC is one of the world’s leading companies in the gaming market and the bwin brand has a rich history of collaborating with the greatest names in global football including Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Bayern Munich. The decision of bwin to promote its brand on the Olympiacos shirt over the next five years, is a great recognition of our efforts in recent years to make Olympiacos a global brand and extend our commercial activities beyond the borders of Greece; a key part of our strategy to grow the Olympiacos brand over the coming years. We are confident that in partnership with bwin, we will create unique moments of joy for our fans, with our success supporting the goals of bwin, both in Greece as well as globally."
Adam Lewis, Chief Marketing Officer της GVC Holdings: "We are delighted to be entering into a long-term partnership with a club of the stature of Olympiacos BC. We share with them the values of fair play and the drive to compete at the very pinnacle of our fields. bwin has a proud history of partnering with many of the biggest names in European football and we are extremely pleased to be able to include them in our sponsorship portfolio that also features Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund and Valencia. We thank Olympiacos BC for joining us and look forward to a productive partnership that brings success on and off the court.”