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Taiwan's Acer to sponsor 2010 Vancouver, 2012 London Olympics

Posted : Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:05:04 GMT

Taiwan's Acer Inc, the world's fourth-largest personal computer brand, will become a main sponsor for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Acer and the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday in a statement that Acer will supply computing equipment products to the Vancouver and London Olympics.

According to the four-year agreement starting 2009, Acer will be listed among the main IOC sponsors which have exclusive advertising rights around the Olympic Games and its symbols such as the Olympic Rings.

"The experience with the IOC will bring a fresh and new approach. It will be like being part of a huge community of men and women who, though sharing different feelings and emotions, are driven by a common intent to promote an open dialogue," Acer's Italian president Gianfranco Lanci said in the statement.

"As sport overcomes barriers by acknowledging the value of difference and the strength of common objectives, technology is moving in the same direction by facilitating communication among different populations," he added.

IOC President Jacques Rogge said he was happy to welcome Acer to the TOP Partner Programme in 2009.

"For the Olympic Movement, this partnership will deliver funding to help stage the Olympic Games in Vancouver and London, technology equipment and services to manage the logistical demands, and people to staff some of the most critical functions. In addition, the relationship will play an important role in the promotion of the Olympic Movement and sport across the globe," Rogge was quoted by the statement as saying.

Established in 1976, Acer employs 5,300 people and supplies dealers and distributors in more than 100 countries. Revenues in 2006 reached 11.32 billion US dollars.

Acer is the world's fourth-largest personal computer brand after HP, Dell and China's Lenovo.