Pergo official supplier to Victory Challenge

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Pergo official supplier to Victory Challenge

(21 February 2007, Valencia) Victory Challenge announced today that Pergo, one of the world’s leading flooring companies, will be official supplier of flooring to the team’s America’s Cup base in Valencia.

They will supply in excess of 1 000 sq. metres of flooring for the office and hospitality area.

”Our base is standard size for the bases in the America’s Cup harbour in Valencia, but double the size of the one we had in Auckland. It is a big area which, under a relatively short period of time, will be subjected to excessive wear and tear. We are therefore very pleased to have Pergo as our official supplier of laminate flooring,” says Johan Stenman, CEO for Victory Challenge.

 Victory Challenge’s base was taken into use when the team returned after last year’s winter break. At that time it was all about the boat yard, the sail loft, and the adjacent office for sail designer Laurent Delage.

During the winter the 500 sq. m. office area has been made ready with Pergo flooring.

Presently the top floor is being made ready, providing facilities for hospitality, team meetings and meals, a gym as well as offices for Viasat Sport which will be broadcasting live from the final sailing matches within the framework of the 32nd America’s Cup.

When the competitions kick off on the 3rd of April with the Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 13, the last of the pre-regattas before the challenger series Louis Vuitton Cup, the shops on the ground floor will have opened and have been equipped with Pergo flooring. The shops will be selling, amongst other things, Victory Challenge’s sailing clothes from Sail Racing.

Pergo’s former mother company Perstorp invented laminte flooring at the end of the 1970s. It has since then expanded into Europe and North America and is being sold around Asia, mainly in India and China.

Victory Challenge’s challenge for the 32nd America’s Cup is made in collaboration with Tele2, Red Bull and MTG. Metro and Viasat Broadcasting are media partners. Sail Racing, LIROS Yacht Ropes, Rutgerson Marin, Pergo and OM Pimespo Ibercarretillas are official suppliers. Team suppliers are Sebago, Oakley, Optimus, Fitness First in Valencia and Nordic Sea Hotel in Stockholm.

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