Sponsors
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BISSELL Inc.
Mark Bissell and BISSELL Inc. have been involved in sponsoring cycling for many years.
The U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team are the most notable BISSELL sponsored teams to date.
BISSELL Inc. has been a successful company for the past 125 years. They were the
pioneers in the carpet cleaning industry. Anna Bissell was a pioneer herself by becoming America’s
first female corporate CEO in 1889. BISSELL Inc. has continued decade after decade as
the world’s innovator of cleaning products.
Why is this important to you? Because it clearly illustrates the character of Mark Bissell and
BISSELL Inc., the Bissell’s build long lasting, high quality organizations. This coupled with
Mark’s personal passion for the sport of cycling and helping athletes, guarantee’s the longevity and
success of the BISSELL PRO CYCLING TEAM. |
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 Advantage Benefits Group
Bob Hughes and Advantage Benefits Group (ABG) have sponsored sailboat racing at an international
level for many years and has found cycling to be his new passion. Like Bissell, Advantage Benefits
has sponsored races, as well as category 5 competitors through to the professional ranks. Aside
from Mr. Hughes’ love for competition, the sport of cycling fits very well into the business of
Advantage Benefits Group. Cycling is a healthy sport promoting healthy living and that’s what
Advantage Benefits’ business is all about, because healthier Americans mean lower healthcare
costs for all.
The most important factor that Bob Hughes brings to the team is his unyielding commitment to
the riders. It would be tough to find a sponsor in any sport to match Bob’s love for the riders on
his team. He opens his house up to them at all times, he feeds them, in essence he takes care
of them as if they were his owe children. It is a rare occurrence to find a CEO of a company that
sponsors a pro cycling team in the feed zone, mixing bottles and handing them out to his riders.
This is standard procedure for Bob Hughes.
Bob’s passion for victory, his riders and his financial commitment to this solidifies the fact that we
will be the program to ride for in North America. |
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 Emerald Spas
John Kennedy has teamed with Mark Bissell for a number of years to sponsor individual riders, helping them progress from category competitors to the professional ranks.
Through Emerald Spa Corporation, John increased his commitment to cycling by taking a more visible position as a sponsor of the Priority Health Cycling Team and the Bissell Elite Cycling Team.
Sponsoring cyclists gives John the opportunity to combine his lifelong involvement in sport and passion for competition, with his sincere commitment to make a difference in the lives of others.
Cycling and Emerald Spa are well matched, in that for nearly 30 years Emerald Spa has focused on a single goal—to manufacture the highest quality personal therapy spas that through the power of warm water and massage provide healing recovery and relaxation, an essential component in a successful athlete’s training and development.
Emerald Spa Corporation is one of the respected Kennedy group of companies, a family of well-established corporations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia providing product, services, and solutions to the automotive, medical and consumer products industries.
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 Employment Group
EmploymentGroup is an innovative, solutions-based business comprising three core divisions: staffing, managed services, and professional search. EmploymentGroup has 17 offices across Southwest and Central Michigan, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois. EmploymentGroup’s staffing operation delivers a measurably better employee through its recruiting, interviewing, screening, and selection processes. EmploymentGroup’s managed services division specializes in helping companies stay focused on their essential business functions by providing key, non-strategic managed services, such as mail and document management, archives, courier, shipping and receiving, custodial, and grounds keeping. And, EmploymentGroup’s professional placement division, EG Professional Search, focuses on recruiting and placing candidates in professional and technical positions, such as engineering, project management, operations, and human resources. The company’s mission is “Helping People Succeed”.
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 Wynalda Litho
Wynalda Litho is a commercial printing and packaging company offering a complete range of services including structural and graphic design, computer plate technologies, large format printing, and practically anything else you could need.
Rob Wynalda has been a long time supporter of racing in West Michigan and is himself an avid cyclist. |
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