Sponsorships

ING announced last week that it will add the Denver Marathon to its expanding portfolio of marathon sponsorships. The multiyear deal also makes the company the title sponsor of the ING Marathon Relay a four-person relay “race-within-a-race ” to be held on Oct. 14 the same day as the marathon.

Brands use Fashion Week sponsorships to strut their stuff reach influencers—and just plain look good

When it comes to glitz few events in New York City can rival Fashion Week the semi-annual ritual under the tents in Bryant Park where leggy models strut the latest designer duds down the catwalk.

Looking to become “more flexible” and to “better differentiate” its brands GM will no longer sponsor the Olympics after the 2008 summer games in Beijing.

To leverage its official sponsorship at last week’s Summer X Games in Los Angeles Schick Quattro built on-site presence with a branded skate park (smaller than what the pros use but still legit for fans) at the Home Depot Center one of the Games’ two venues. Attendees were invited to show their stuff and enter a contest dubbed the Schick Quattro East vs. West Xperiment.

As part of its US Open sponsorship Lexus created a three-day virtual tennis tournament at New York City’s Rockefeller Center. Playing tennis on Nintendo’s Wii console participants vie to win the grand prize—a one-year lease on a Lexus IS F and tickets to the US Open finals.