The engage Super League - engage Mutual Assurance teams up with the Rugby Super League.
7th March 2005
Super League (Europe) Limited has reached agreement with
engage Mutual Assurance for the brand to become the main sponsor of the Super League competition. The agreement
is for a two year period and is valued at a significant seven figure sum. The partnership means the official title of the
competition will be 'engage Super League'.
The announcement was made at the competition's official launch at Old Trafford on Monday, February 7.
Commenting on the new agreement Richard Lewis, Executive Chairman of the Rugby Football League, said: "We welcome engage Mutual Assurance as the new major sponsors of the Super League competition.
"We look forward to working with them and we believe that Super League's family and community values mean our partnership is both highly appropriate and provides many mutual benefits."
"To attract a partnership with a national brand of this nature, demonstrates the growing value and prestige of the Super League competition."
Also speaking at the launch, Lewis commented on the excitement of the coming campaign: "We are about to enter the tenth season of Super League and since its inaugural year in 1996, the competition has rapidly gone from strength-to-strength and continues to enjoy increasing levels of success.
"During the 2004 campaign, we enjoyed record crowds, both for the Regular season and the Play-Off series. Also, the Super League title decider was watched, for the second year running, by a 65,500 sell-out attendance and this success is set to continue.
"This year's engage Super League will feature a new system of pre-match team announcements and this will create added interest and debate both among supporters and the media.
"When the action gets underway, the battle for places in the top six Play-Offs and the threat of relegation for the clubs finishing in the bottom two positions in the competition table, will ensure that the entire season is full of matches which are both highly meaningful and provide great spectacle and excitement."
Andrew Haigh, Chief Executive at engage Mutual Assurance, said: "We are delighted and proud to be the sponsors of Super League 10 which is a landmark in the history of the competition as well as a fitting launch of our new brand.
"engage Mutual Assurance will be the primary brand for new customers of Homeowners Friendly Society from early April. The new brand will specialise in the same good value savings and protection products as Homeowners as well as looking to new products which aim to preserve and enhance people's welfare.
"engage Super League is the ideal way to launch this new identity to the public, thereby building awareness and understanding of this brand. Our partnership with Super League is a perfect marriage of the same values and principles and we look forward to a successful sponsorship and season.
"We look forward to meeting the clubs and fans and wish everyone the best of luck for the exciting year ahead."
It can be confirmed that the prize money structure for the engage Super League in 2005 will be as follows:
The Champions - the team that wins the Grand Final - will receive £290,000 from a total prize fund of £1.1 million. The remaining distributions are as follows:
Beaten Grand Finalists | £185,000 |
Third place | £155,000 |
Fourth place | £130,000 |
Fifth place | £100,000 |
Sixth place | £80,000 |
Seventh place | £45,000 |
Eight place | £35,000 |
Ninth place | £27,000 |
Tenth place | £22,000 |
Eleventh place | £18,000 |
Twelfth | £13,000 |
- Established in 1980, Homeowners Friendly Society is a Harrogate-based financial services organisation which provides simple, good value financial welfare products. The society offers tax-exempt savings plans for adults and children, as well as life cover (term and whole of life).
- It is also one of the financial providers committed to providing the Government's new Child Trust Fund savings initiative through its wholly-owned subsidiary Homeowners Investment Fund Managers Limited offers an Equity ISA, Education ISA and an OEIC. Both firms are regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Information on the Society's stakeholder Child Trust Fund is available at www.childtrustfund.com
engage Mutual Assurance is a trading name of Homeowners Friendly Society Limited (HFSL), Registered and Incorporated under the Friendly Societies Act 1992, Registered number 964F, and its wholly owned subsidiary Homeowners Investment Fund Managers Limited (HIFML), Registered number 3224780.
HFSL & HIFML are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). HFSL's FSA Register number is 110072 and HIFML's FSA Register number is 181487. You can check these on the FSA's Register by visiting the FSA's website www.fsa.gov.uk/register or by contacting the FSA on 0845 606 1234.
Homeowners Investment Funds ICVC is an investment company with variable capital, Registered in England Number IC00044.
Homeowners Financial Administration Limited, Registered number 4301736, Homeowners Membership Services Limited, Registered number 3091667 and UK Friendly Insurance Services Limited, Registered number 3088162 are all non-regulated wholly owned subsidiary companies of HFSL.
All registered at Hornbeam Park Avenue, Harrogate, HG2 8XE tel: 01423 855000 fax: 01423 855181
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