Maplin Electronics To Sponsor UK Championship

[Hendry the 8th]

http://www.worldsnooker.com/tourname...d18315)-56.htm

This is excellent news!

[PaulTheSoave]

Good news they have a sponsor.

Not a main market player or is it?

[Caroline]

Great news!
You think they deliberately delay the annoncement or it is just a hard deal to make?

[PaulTheSoave]

I dont know the status of this company. seems to be an ordinary online shopping firm.

[Robert602]

It's quite a large electronics retailer in the UK Paul, it's not just online. They have a massive warehouse near where I live and outlets in pretty much every city in the UK, they've got plenty of money to fund a snooker tournament .

So yeah, great news, although if it's taken this long to broker they're cutting it a bit fine. Better late than never though.

[hegeland]

I must say I'm very surprised. Is it possible they didn't find a sponsor til just a few days before the tournament or have they delibarately delayed the announcement (the latter appears absurd, I know)?

[dannyd0g]

I cant remember who sponosored the uk last year. Can anyone refresh my memory please ?

[Matt_2745]

Travis Perkins did it last year.

[dannyd0g]

Travis Perkins did it last year.

Thanks. Wonder why they didnt renew.

[Hendry the 8th]

I think they've had it in the bag for a while. Don't forget that they'll have had programmes to get printed and of course the set needed designing.

[PaulTheSoave]

Well, its good news then if a well established company sponsors this tournament.

It's quite a large electronics retailer in the UK Paul, it's not just online. They have a massive warehouse near where I live and outlets in pretty much every city in the UK, they've got plenty of money to fund a snooker tournament .

So yeah, great news, although if it's taken this long to broker they're cutting it a bit fine. Better late than never though.

[Mitsuko]

Maplins is my favourite shop

[gensdon]

the prize money has gone up from last year too, to 77,000.

[Cessy143]

http://www.worldsnooker.com/tourname...d18315)-56.htm

This is excellent news!

Maplin Electronics, thats good, bit of a shock though

[missneworleans]

It's good that they finally got a sponsor