Levy Restaurants signs on as official sponsor for Leicester Tigers
Participating in this sponsorship deal:
About Sponsor:
Levy Restaurants is a restaurant company based in Chicago specializing in providing premium-quality vending and food services to major entertainment and sports venues. It is a unit of Compass Group, and was founded in 1978. It operates over 100 foodservice locations in 41 markets throughout the US and Canada. In 2004, company revenue exceeded $470 million, and was projected to exceed $600 million in 2005.[1] The company owns several restaurants and fine dining locations in addition to its entertainment venue holdings. Levy was named one of the 10 most innovative companies in sports in the world by Fast Company magazine. The company’s diverse portfolio includes restaurants such as James Beard Award-winning Spiaggia in Chicago, Fulton’s Crab House, Bar Toma, Portobello and Wolfgang Puck Grand Café at Walt Disney World Resort, renowned venues like STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, O2 Arena in London, and events including the, US Open, Kentucky Derby, The Super Bowl, MLB All-Star Games, NBA All-Star Games and the GRAMMY Awards.
About Property:
Leicester Tigers (officially Leicester Football Club) is an English rugby union club that plays in the Aviva Premiership. Leicester are the most successful English club since the introduction of league rugby in 1987, a record 9 times English champions - 3 more than either Bath or Wasps, the last of which was in 2010. Leicester have also appeared in a record eight successive Premiership finals since 2005. The Tigers have never finished a league season below 6th position, and are one of only four teams (along with Gloucester, Bath and Wasps) never to have been relegated from the top division. Leicester are also the only English side to have qualified to play in every Heineken Cup in which English teams have participated, and are also the most successful English side in Europe; back-to-back champions in 2001 and 2002 and losing finalists in 1997, 2007 and 2009. The club's turnover for 2009–10 was £18.5 million.[1] Leicester's rivalry with Northampton is known as the East Midlands Derby.