Bojangles’® is the Newest ACC Official Corporate Champion
September 24 2015 - 4:28PM
Business Wire
The North Carolina based Company is now the
exclusive Chicken, Biscuits, and Iced Tea of the ACC.
Bojangles’, Inc. (NASDAQ: BOJA) announced today that it has
joined the ACC’s Official Corporate Champion program as the
exclusive chicken, biscuits, and iced tea of the ACC. The
multi-platform agreement uniquely places Bojangles’ within ACC
Network Broadcasts, as well as Conference Digital offerings, in
addition to giving the company marketing rights as an Official
Corporate Champion. Raycom Sports manages the ACC Official
Corporate Champion program.
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Clifton Rutledge, Bojangles' President
and CEO with ACC Commissioner John Swofford. (Photo:
Bojangles')
Bojangles’ will receive benefits that include extensive
television and marketing tie-ins with ACC Basketball and Football,
as well as all the Conference's Championship events. Assets include
on-site marketing, promotional opportunities, brand exposure,
licensing rights, tickets, and integration on the official ACC
website.
“The support of the ACC Corporate Champions creates numerous
opportunities for our student-athletes,” said ACC Commissioner John
Swofford. “Bojangles’, with their commitment to excellence and
strong presence in the ACC footprint, is a natural and outstanding
addition to the ACC Corporate Champions and we look forward to the
partnership.”
“As a brand that was born in the Carolinas, it is an honor for
Bojangles’ to partner with the ACC,” said Clifton Rutledge,
Bojangles’ President and CEO. “Thousands of student-athletes are
getting a great education and learning valuable life lessons at
these schools, so to be part of what the ACC is doing for
student-athletes is gratifying for all of us at Bojangles’.”
Bojangles’ joins the roster of Official Corporate Champions of
the ACC that includes Food Lion, Geico, Havoline, New York Life and
Toyota.
Bojangles’, Inc. is a highly differentiated and growing
restaurant operator and franchisor dedicated to serving customers
high-quality, craveable food made from our Southern
recipes. Founded in 1977 in Charlotte, NC, Bojangles’ serves
menu items such as delicious, famous chicken, made-from-scratch
buttermilk biscuits, flavorful fixin’s and Legendary Iced
Tea®. At June 28, 2015, Bojangles’ had 646 system-wide
restaurants, of which 267 were company-operated and 379 were
franchised restaurants, primarily located in the Southeastern
United States. For more information, visit www.bojangles.com
or follow Bojangles’ on Facebook and Twitter.
The Atlantic Coast Conference, now in its 63rd year of
competition and 15 members strong, has long enjoyed the reputation
as one of the strongest and most competitive intercollegiate
conferences in the nation. ACC members, consisting of Boston
College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville,
Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Notre Dame, Pitt, Syracuse,
Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, continue to build upon the
cornerstones on which the league was founded in 1953 with a
consistent balance of academics, athletics and integrity. For more
information, visit theACC.com and follow @theACC and on
facebook.com/theACC.
Charlotte-based Raycom Sports is a leading independent sports
sales & marketing, syndication, event management and production
firm. Raycom holds the ACC digital and syndicated television rights
of ACC men’s basketball and football telecasts through 2023. In a
partnership with the ACC, Raycom operates the ACC Network, which
distributes ACC content through live television broadcasting,
original programming via digital technologies, historical archives,
mobile applications, social media, ACC Championship events and the
official ACC website. Raycom Sports’ parent company Raycom Media,
located in Montgomery, AL, owns and operates 53 television stations
covering over 13 percent of the United States across 18 states.
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