Motorola signs on as official sponsor for BNP Paribas Open
Participating in this sponsorship deal:
About Sponsor:
Motorola Mobility (doing business as simply Motorola) is an American consumer electronics and telecommunications company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2011. Motorola Mobility is currently owned by Lenovo after being purchased from Google in 2014. Motorola Mobility was formed after the split of the original Motorola on January 4, 2011. In the split, Motorola Mobility took the company's consumer-oriented product lines, including its mobile phone business and its cable modems and set-top boxes for digital cable and satellite television services. Motorola Solutions retained the company's enterprise-oriented product lines.
About Property:
The Indian Wells Masters (sponsored by BNP Paribas and officially called the BNP Paribas Open) is an annual tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California. The tournament is a Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and is a Premier Mandatory event on the women's tour having as main sponsor the French bank BNP Paribas. Between 1974 and 1990 it was a major tournament of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour and part of the Grand Prix Championship Series. The event, held in March, is one of two tour events (besides the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida) in which main draw play extends beyond eight days.