Wrangler signs on as official sponsor for Tennessee Volunteers
Participating in this sponsorship deal:
About Sponsor:
Wrangler is a manufacturer of jeans and other clothing items. The brand is owned by the VF Corporation, who also own Lee, JanSport and The North Face, among others. Its headquarters is in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, with production plants in a variety of locations throughout the world. Wrangler International is now chaired by Dieter Jacobfeuerborn. Wrangler is a division of VF Jeanswear Limited Partnership, which is an affiliate of VF Corporation. VF Corporation is a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel and footwear with more than 30 brands.
About Property:
The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the National Collegiate Athletic Association college sports teams at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. Mike Hamilton is the most recent Men's Athletic Director, but resigned on June 7, 2011, and Joan Cronan is the current Women's Athletic Director. In September 2011 Dave Hart, formerly the assistant athletic director at the University of Alabama, was introduced as Tennessee's new athletic director. Hart will eventually become the school's first athletic director in Tennessee history to oversee both the women's and men's athletic departments as they merge in June 2012 after which Joan Cronan will become the senior adviser to Hart and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek.