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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 23, 2007 KUU Re-Signs Homegrown Half-Pipe Talent KUUsport Mfg. Ltd., has recently re-signed sponsorship agreements with Canadian National Snowboard Team members Brad Martin and Dan Raymond that will see both riding on KUU’s MACH Series of Waxes again for the 07/08 season. Brad has been one of the strongest members of the Canadian National Team over the past few years and continues to show that his ridding is going to the next level. With multiple medals at the World Cup Level and a Bronze and the 2007 World Snowboard Championship in his trophy case, he has added the 1260 to his bag to tricks to keep him at the top. Brad can be seen in numerous events around North America including the US Open, X-Games, Empire Shakedown, the Whistler World Ski & Snowboard Invitational and even riding outside the pipe in a few videos that will be released this winter. Dan has multiple years of experience on the World Cup Circuit and is looking forward to this season riding with KUU. He will be coming into 07/08 healthy after struggling with a few injuries last season, including a separated shoulder. Dan, who is an avid tuner and waxing junkie, takes great pride is his amplitude and his smooth style in the pipe. With two World Cup Half-Pipe events in Canada this season (Calgary, AB & Stoneham, QC), Dan is looking towards standing on the podium in front of the home crowd. Ron Kuus, president of KUUsport says, “We are proud to have re-signed with both Brad and Dan. I think both riders are poised to have tremendous seasons this year and I look forward to seeing them stand on the podium at many different events.” He goes on to say, “KUU being the first snowboard specific wax, tools, and accessory company in the world, remains strongly committed to those exceptional athletes that are determined to make it to the top.” KUUsport Mfg. Ltd. is a manufacturer and wholesaler of Alpine, Nordic, and Snowboard Waxes, Tuning Equipment, and Accessories based in Toronto, Ontario.
KUUSPORT MFG. LTD. AND SKI QUEBEC ALPIN PARTNER IN SUPPORT OF ALPINE SKI RACING November, 2007 (Toronto, ON) – KUUsport Mfg. Ltd. has recently agreed to a partnership with Ski Quebec Alpin (SQA). The agreement will see KUUsport becoming an ‘Official Supplier’ to Ski Quebec Alpin for waxes and tuning supplies. This agreement is another in a long line of Provincial Level sponsorship that helps to solidify KUUsport’s commitment to the development and growth of Alpine Skiing in Canada. Ski Quebec Alpin will join Alpine Ontario Alpin, Alberta Alpine, Manitoba Alpine, and Ski Nfld/Labrador in the current line up of teams that will benefit from KUU’s breakthrough MACH Series of Waxes. KUUsport is also an ‘Official Supplier’ to Alpine Canada Alpin, to both the Canadian Alpine Ski Team and the Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team. “This agreement with the SQA will help in providing our teams with some of the highest levels waxes. I had great experiences and results using the wax when I was coaching in Ontario and now that I am with the Quebec Team, I wanted my current athletes to have the same advantage. I have great confidence in the wax and look forward to the team’s performance this season on KUU waxes.” Eric Prefontaine, SQA – Men’s Team Head Coach. Owner of KUUsport Mfg. Ltd., Ron Kuus, “It brings me great pleasure to be able to provide support to so many Provincial Level teams. I myself competed at the Provincial Level and I know the effect that support from sponsors has on the team and the athletes.” said Kuus. He goes on to say “as a Canadian Company, we feel that providing support for up and coming Canadian Athletes helps to strengthen the entire Canadian Alpine Program.” KUUsport Mfg. Ltd. is a manufacturer and wholesaler of Alpine, Nordic, and Snowboard Waxes, Tuning Equipment, and Accessories based in Toronto, Ontario.
KUU Athletes Rack Up Record-Breaking Seasons on Snow March 24, 2006 (Toronto, Ontario.) It's official! On the strength of career seasons from KUU athletes Thomas Grandi and Erik Guay, the Canadian men's alpine ski team has recorded its best ever finish in the FIS Nations Cup. Aided by his career-high 5 podiums, Grandi amassed 614 World Cup points for Canada's best ever individual technical tally. Guay, despite missing the season's final four speed races, wasn't far behind at 435. Mirroring his technical partner's relentless rise and with 3 World Cup podiums of his own this season, speed specialist Erik Guay has now improved his points in each one of his four seasons on the elite circuit. KUU President Ron Kuus is justifiably impressed. "Obviously we are thrilled to be supplying all of our elite athletes with what we believe are state-of-the-art products, including our highly regarded Mach III wax. We are all happy to see our athletes having record career seasons and we look forward to next year." KUU is an Official Supplier to both Alpine Canada Alpin and the Canadian Snowboard Federation.
The 2006 Honda Pro-Am Snowboard Tour - MACH III Strikes Gold in the Half Pipe! "We know that the flexibility of the MACH waxes have been proven this year with its success in multiple disciplines" commented company president Ron Kuus. "Not only has this season been such a great break out year for the MACH III in the Alpine/Nordic side for KUU with us signing up with the Austria Ski Team and the continued support of Alpine Canada Alpin but, the results on the Snowboard side have just been as big. Continuing with our support for the Canadian Snowboard Federation and our Team Riders the MACH waxes has been helping riders in the Half Pipe, SBX, and even in the gates with the GS." Dan Raymond and the other members of the CSF are now off to Torino and we would like to wish all the athletes good luck! For more information please contact KUUsport: The Canadians - An Alpine Ski Team Changed by Speed  December 20, 2005 (Toronto, Ontario.) Canadian men, apparently feasting on the speed, seemed to populate World Cup podiums at will this past weekend. On Friday and Saturday in Val Gardena, Mont Tremblant's Erik Guay viewed extreme race conditions as an opportunity rather than an obstacle. Guay tore up the track in the Super G to finish with Silver and continued fly high by taking a Bronze in the Downhill. On Sunday Francois Bourque was the next to grab World Cup hardware by taking a Bronze in the GS in Alta Badia, Italy."SPEED CHANGES YOU." This simple tag-line belonging to KUU, Canada's premier manufacturer of competition waxes and precision tuning tools, might just as easily describe the recent transformation of the men's Canadian Alpine Ski Team. KUU is an official supplier to Alpine Canada Alpin and according to KUU president Ron Kuus, the change they've undergone in the past few seasons is remarkable. "The Team finished the 2002 World Cup with 243 points. Contrast that with this season's running total of 804 points (with well over half the races to come,) and you begin to understand the magnitude of what they are achieving - it's nothing short of spectacular." "Obviously we are thrilled to be supplying them with what we believe is state-of-the-art product, including our highly regarded Mach III wax. That they are coincidentally enjoying their best season in 23 years is especially exciting" concluded Ron. KUU is the Canadian manufacturer and distributor of waxes, precision tuning tools and accessories for alpine skiing, nordic skiing and snowboarding.
Ski Racing Powerhouse Taps KUU for Race Wax & Tuning Tools INNSBRUCK , AUSTRIA . June 22, 2005 . KUU, the Canadian manufacturer of competition race waxes and precision tuning equipment, has been named an “Official Supplier” to the Austrian National Ski Team. The status was conferred on KUU in an agreement signed earlier this month and applies to both Austria’s world famous Alpine team as well as its accomplished Nordic team. The immediate effect of the signing is that KUU’s bullet-quick MACH series wax and tuning accessories become part of the Austrian team’s equipment for the upcoming 2005/2006 World Cup season. This is the freshest in a series of agreements KUU has inked with national ski and snowboard organizations in Canada and abroad. Interest in their product line has intensified following testing of the latest generation of KUU’s Mach series wax, the Mach III. According to Reinhold Zitz, the Austrian team’s Pool Manager, “obviously we are impressed with KUU products overall, but we especially like the flexibility of the Mach III – it performs well over a surprisingly large temperature range and that is a key advantage in ski racing.”
Commenting on the most recent arrival to the KUU client roster, company president Ron Kuus advised “we are thrilled that Austria has selected our products for their team equipment pool. At our end we think we make the world’s fastest race waxes, a view that may have obtained its latest validation this week from the world’s dominant ski power.”
For further information please contact: KUUsport Mfg. Ltd. International Head Office 450 Tapscott Road , Unit 5 & 6A Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M1B 1Y4 Phone: (416) 298-7724 Fax: (416) 298-7246 Email: kuu@kuu.com KUU “Top Guns” Thomas Grandi & Erik Guay Start the Season With a Bang
December 21, 2004 (Toronto, Ontario) KUU, manufacturer of competition waxes and tools for 18 years and official supplier to the Canadian Alpine Ski Team, is delighted to announce sponsorships of this country's top two male skiers, Thomas Grandi and Erik Guay, as of November 15 and December 15 respectively. "We are thrilled to have Thomas and Erik racing under our banner" commented KUU President Ron Kuus. "Their dedication, athleticism and success is ushering in a phenomenal new era in alpine ski racing in Canada. KUU is proud to be supporting them with precision ski tuning tools and our bullet-quick Mach III race waxes."
Since reaching the new sponsorship agreements, there has been little reciprocal talk but plenty of action from the two most prominent users of the KUU product. Earlier this week in Val Gardena, inspiration triumphed over injury when Guay wired his best World Cup result of the season on a course that only a year ago sent him to the hospital on a stretcher. In just his fifth downhill back since that crash and the knee surgery that resulted, Erik was barely a second behind the winner. The 11th place finish has vaulted him into14th place in the overall downhill standings.
In the four World Cup GS races since commencement of his own KUU sponsorship, Thomas Grandi's media profile has shot from relative anonymity to front page glory. Starting modestly with a 13th in Beaver Creek USA then an 11th in Val D'Isere France, on Sunday in Italy Thomas became the 1st ever Canadian male alpine skier to win a World Cup technical event with a GS victory on the treacherous Alta Badia piste. Unbelievably, this morning in Austria he made it back-to-back triumphs by capturing the Flachau GS. With this 2nd win right in the hometown of Austrian skiing titan Hermann Maier, Thomas now leads the overall World Cup GS standings ahead of both "the Herminator" and American wunderkind Bode Miller.
Until Grandi, no Canadian skier had won back-to-back World Cup races since Steve Podborski's 1980/81 campaign. Asked to comment on the coincidence of Erik's improved and Thomas's stunning results immediately following the commencement of their sponsorships, Ron Kuus advised "these results speak volumes for both Erik and Thomas. However I personally spent too many years in race boots of my own to attribute their success to anything other than determination, skill and discipline. Having said that, we all know how important it is to have perfectly tuned equipment. And access to arguably the world's fastest race waxes doesn't hurt either. Let's just say I'm stoked that Erik and Thomas's technicians have our equipment to use, our advice at all times, and our new Mach III wax series on their tuning benches." In a previous statement, KUU advised that Mach III will be available to non-World Cup racers in advance of the 2005-2006 ski season.
For further information please contact:
Kuusport Manufacturing , Ltd. 450 Tapscott Road , Units 5 & 6A Toronto , Ontario M1B 1Y4 tel: (416)298-7724 website: www.kuu.com email: kuu@kuu..com
KUU Continues to Expand its International Factory Pro Team Ron Kuus president of KUUsport says, "We are proud to bring more big names into KUU's family. They will add strength and increased exposure in all of our markets." He goes on to says, "KUU being the first snowboard wax, tools, and accessory company in the world, remains strongly committed to those exceptional athletes that are determined to make it to the top." BRAD MARTIN
Dear Team, We are pleased to announce another key partnership with Alpine Ontario. Ontario is one of the strongest suppliers to the National Team. Nice comments from the Head Coach as well , see below. Such legends like The CRAZY CANUKS Steve Podborski & Todd Brooker have come from this division. One of the key reasons why all the Team Sponsorships and individual contracts are happening is due to the New Mach III waxes , a long with our tools and accessories. These types of partnerships will help the brands credibility across the country and yours sales of the KUU brand.
Sincerely,
Ron Kuus
President
COLLINGWOOD, Ontario (December 15, 2005) - Alpine Ontario is pleased to announce a sponsorship agreement with KUUsport, a manufacturer of waxes, tools, & accessories for the last 18 years. KUU will now be an Official Supplier to the Ontario Alpine Ski Team. KUU who is also an Official Supplier to Alpine Canada Alpin sees great benefits for both the Ontario Ski Team and themselves with this new agreement. With the recent breakthrough in their "MACH" series wax, KUU has developed a brand new MACH III wax which will now be available to the Ontario Ski Team with this sponsorship. These waxes typify the best of the "MACH" technology and are meant for the elite racer that needs to reach their top acceleration speed faster. To date the MACH III has only been available to the Canadian National Teams. "We are proud to be working with some of the highest level athletes in Ontario. With KUU having its home base in Ontario it is great to be part of our provincial teams racing program," stated President and Owner Ron Kuus. "Waxing has taken on a new direction and we are starting to see the confidence with our "MACH" series waxes filter down from the World Cup." |
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"In a tight race, hitting the right wax can mean the difference between a good result and a great result," said Kip Harrington, Men's Team Head Coach about the new agreement. "Thanks to the support of Kuu, our athletes have a compe titive advantage."