Leading Retailer’s Commitment to Canadian Companies Highlighted by Unique Accessory
(TORONTO) – Golf Town – Canada’s largest golf retailer with unequaled selection and competitive prices at 46 locations coast to coast – introduces Aqua Caddy™, a portable club head cleaning device at the company’s superstores.
Part of Golf Town’s expansive range of game play accessories, Aqua Caddy is manufactured and distributed by Fall River, Nova Scotia-based Pure Brand Management Inc., an industry leader in licensed sports team merchandise and apparel. Attaching easily to the side of any golf bag, the compact cleaning device features a water reservoir surrounded by brushes, making it easy to clean the grooves of irons, hybrids and most fairway woods anywhere on the course.
The perfect gift for the golfer who has everything, the Aqua Caddy ($19.99) also enables golfers to prolong the life of their clubs by preventing rusting and pitting.
“We continue to recognize our customers’ desires to purchase home-grown goods from Canadian companies like Pure Brands,” says Stephen Bebis, President and CEO of Golf Town. “Our vast selection of products and services – including apparel, accessories, equipment, lessons and more – helps to validate Golf Town’s position as a must-visit destination throughout the year.”
Golf Town offers an unbeatable selection of clubs, bags, balls, apparel, footwear, accessories, gifts, logo merchandise, promotional services and more. This includes the world’s leading golf brands, such as Adams, Ashworth, Bridgestone, Callaway Golf, Cleveland Golf, Cobra, Dunning, ECCO, FootJoy, Founders Club, Gordon Cooper, Greg Norman, Honma, Hugo Boss, LaCoste, Liz Claiborne, LIJA, Mizuno, Never Compromise, Nike Golf, Odyssey, Ogio, Paradise, Ping, Srixon, Sun Mountain, TaylorMade adidas Golf, Titleist and Wilson.
For more information, please visit www.golftown.com.
About Golf Town
Canada’s largest golf retailer, Golf Town was founded in 1999 and has grown from one location in Scarborough, ON, to 46 superstores coast to coast. At an average size of nearly 18,000 square feet, these retail centres feature all the major name-brand products at the best price, ensuring customers find what they want, when they want it.
A centre of the Canadian golf community for individuals and organizations, Golf Town locations serve as sanctuaries where players of all ages and abilities try, buy, learn about and improve their games. The largest employer of CPGA professionals, Golf Town offers on-site lessons tailored to an individual’s needs through its In-Store Academy.
The retailer has also established Canada’s leading customer advantage initiative via its Leaderboard Membership Privileges Program. Benefits of this free membership include the chance to win a $500 gift card in a national monthly drawing; timely e-newsletters; members-only special offers on equipment, accessories, golf lessons, in-store events; and more.
Golf Town was acquired by OMERS Private Equity, the entity responsible for private equity investments of the OMERS pension fund, in September 2007. For more information: www.omerscapital.com.
Already a leader in logo products for golf events and other programs, Golf Town purchased Accolade Reaction Promotion Group, Inc., in May 2008 and has created a one-stop-shop for the promotional needs of businesses, meeting planners, sales and marketing executives, and human resource professionals. Named a 2008 Top 40 Distributor by the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), ARPG is the first Canadian corporate merchandise services firm to achieve ASI Top 40 Status. For more information: www.arpg.ca.
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Buffalo Communications
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