Red Bull Crashed Ice Marketing through extreme sport

Red Bull Crashed Ice Marketing through extreme sport XEN 003 Communication skills Feb 2011 Suvi Poutanen

Red Bull – more than an energy drink • Dietrich Mateschitz, the creator (1987) and owner of Red Bull International • “It gives you wings” • Advertising – an aggressive international marketing campaign – sponsored activities – team ownerships

Do companies benefit from sport sponsorship? From the article Event sponsorship as a value creating strategy for brands, made by Dimitra Papadimitriou, Artemisia Apostolopoulou and Theofanis Dounis and published in the Journal of Product & Brand Management (2008). • Sport sponsorship can be a tool in achieving the goals that companies have for their brand management. It can help to build powerful brands with high value in the marketplace. • There have been also previous studies about sport sponsorhip increasing brand awareness and familiarity.

Red Bull Crashed Ice – downhill skating competition World Championship Tour 2011 Jan 15 Munich, Germany Feb 5 Valkenburg, Netherlands Feb 26 Moscow, Russia Mar 19 Quebec, Canada Top 5: 1. Arttu Pihlainen 2. Kyle Croxall 3. Scott Croxall 4. Lari Joutsenlahti 5. Lukas Kolc FIN CAN FIN CZE 1800 1700 1400 820 810

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References: • http: //findarticles. com/p/articles/mi_m 0 BDW /is_22_42/ai_75286777/ • http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Crashed_Ice • http: //www. redbull. com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/ Events/001242745950157 • http: //www. emeraldinsight. com/journals. htm ? articleid=1737941&show=abstract