Worldwide Expansion Continues On Heels Of Recent Pacts In South Korea and United Kingdom
LENEXA, KANSAS (May 16, 2007) – Accu-Length has signed another new international distributor agreement, this time with Greenside Golf, S.L., near Barcelona, meaning the ever-expanding — in more than just product description — manufacturer of Accu-Length Expandable Junior Golf Clubs intends to reign in Spain.
Jeff Chew, Founder and Managing Director of Greenside Golf, S.L., headquartered in PalamÔs, Spain, says the new association is easy to explain. Chew, like many others, knew Accu-Length was a winner from the moment he first saw the clubs and experienced their benefits.
"What struck me immediately is that children will easily be able to be custom fit to their clubs," says Chew. "Accu-Length offers a complete line of high quality innovative products whose value and utility speak for themselves. The entire industry of youth golf now has a quality alternative product that addresses the real needs of youth golfers (and their parents), which is custom fit clubs that last more than six months.
"Greenside Golf is extremely happy to have the opportunity to work with Rick (Rutter, President and Founder of OnTrack Sports, LLC, the parent company of Accu-Length) and everyone at OnTrack Sports in growing this business internationally," adds Chew. "Adding Accu-length was an easy choice for us. Our objective as a company is to provide access to the most innovative and value-laden products we can find. Accu-Length certainly fulfills those criteria.
"I can say that to a person, everyone who has seen the club has said the same thing: It is incredible and is a work of absolute genius!"
Greenside Golf is supporting its agreement with Accu-Length with a multi-faceted plan to market and sell the clubs. Accu-Length will be distributed throughout Spain, including the Balearic Islands and, eventually, the Canary Islands. The company’s headquarters in PalamÔs puts it in close proximity to some of Spain’s best courses, in addition to being near the Catalan capital of Barcelona.
Greenside Golf will also be actively working within Spain’s junior market. It will be exhibiting at the Madrid Golf show in October and intends to sponsor the show’s junior section. It is promoting Accu-Length’s products to junior golf schools in Barcelona and Madrid, and will advertise in "Mi Revista de Golf," the official publication of the Real Federacion Español de Golf for golfers under the age of 16.
Finally, the company intends to sponsor youth tournaments and youth golf initiatives throughout Spain. It is currently working to develop a national youth organization within the country.
"We are gratified and impressed by the efforts that Greenside Golf is initiating to support its partnership with Accu-Length in order to sell our products," says Rick Rutter, Rick Rutter, President and Founder of OnTrack Sports, LLC. "Because of that, I expect that Accu-Length will be very successful in Spain and the other areas Greenside will be distributing our Expandable Junior Golf Clubs."
Accu-Length’s agreement with Greenside Golf is just part of its recent and rapid worldwide expansion into overseas markets. In April it signed an exclusive distributorship agreement with Together International of Seoul, South Korea to become the premier line of junior clubs sold throughout the country. Later that month Accu-Length signed with UK Sports Services Ltd. of Derby, England to be distributed throughout the United Kingdom.
Consult your local tournament director for use at USGA sanctioned tournaments. Interested retailers may contact Jeff Sharpe, TOLL FREE, at 800 376-0716. Accu-Length’s new world-wide headquarters are located at 14125 W. 95th Street, Lenexa, KS 66215. For more information on Accu-Length contact Mary Deatrick at 407 332-5212 or visit the company’s web site at www.acculength.com.
Contact:
Mary Deatrick, DPR
(407) 332-5212, mary@deatrickpr.com
