Golf Travel Leader and Footwear Giant Join Forces to Celebrate #GreatestWalksInGolf
Golfbreaks.com is excited to announce a strategic partnership with ECCO GOLF, showcasing the footwear brand’s product line-up to Golfbreaks’ network of golfers, whilst offering additional product benefits to the company’s 230,000 customers.
The partnership between Golfbreaks.com and ECCO GOLF is a natural synergy of core values and principles between the two companies, with both brands priding themselves on being a market leader, offering innovative, premium and quality products. Over recent years, Golfbreaks.com has become renowned for forging partnerships with leading brands within the golf industry which add value to its customer experience through engaging and stimulating campaigns, whilst offering its partners the ability to engage an extensive audience of active golfers.
The partnership between Golfbreaks.com and ECCO GOLF has been launched with a social media campaign encouraging followers to share images and videos of their favourite golfing moments using the hashtag #GreatestWalksInGolf. The winner will scoop a 5* golf holiday for four people at The Westin Costa Narvarino in Messinia, Greece, while eight runners-up will receive a pair of ECCO BIOM® G3 golf shoes.
Speaking on behalf of Golfbreaks.com, Chief Commercial Officer, Keith Mitchell, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with ECCO GOLF and look forward to an exciting and mutually beneficial relationship. Like Golfbreaks.com, ECCO GOLF is renowned as a forward-thinking and innovative brand so this partnership is a natural fit and we look forward to working together on a range of joint initiatives.”
ECCO GOLF Global Marking Manager, Timo Vollrath, continued: “At ECCO GOLF we are proud to break boundaries in terms of style, performance and quality, and we have always been at the forefront of design and customer satisfaction. We see plenty of similarities between our core values and those of Golfbreaks.com which is why we are delighted to enter into this exciting new partnership.”
ECCO GOLF joins Golfbreaks.com’s impressive roster of leading golf industry brands that includes the European Tour, Mastercard, The R&A, Golf Channel, Golf Now, The PGA, Oakley and Callaway Golf, among others. ECCO Golf is one of the world’s leading shoe brands whose innovative blend of style and comfort is built on products with a great fit and top-quality leathers. Founded in Denmark in 1963, ECCO owns and manages every aspect of the value chain, selling products in 88 countries from over 2,000 ECCO shops worldwide.
For further information on Golfbreaks.com, visit www.golfbreaks.com or follow @golfbreaks on Twitter, @Golfbreakscom on Facebook, and @golfbreaks on Instagram.
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Caption: Keith Mitchell; Chief Commercial Officer at Golfbreaks.com (left) and Timo Vollrath, Marketing Manager at ECCO Golf (right)
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For more information, contact Sam Elder, Director, GMS on sam@gmsgolf.co.uk or tel +44 (0) 1438 718 399.
Company Profile
Golfbreaks.com, one of the world’s largest and longest established golf travel companies, was formed in 1998 by Chief Executive, Andrew Stanley, and now organises golf breaks, holidays and tournament experiences for over 230,000 golfers annually at over 2,500 resorts and golf courses in the UK, Europe and Worldwide.
With 20 years’ experience and an expert team that is passionate about golf and travel, the company is known for delivering outstanding choice, value and service, with the reassurance and security of booking with a fully bonded travel company (both ABTA and ATOL in the UK). In post-trip surveys 99% of customers indicated they would rebook with Golfbreaks.com, as authenticated by Reevoo.
Golfbreaks.com are also the only golf travel company to reward customers for their loyalty with discounts on future bookings through the innovative Breakpoints customer rewards programme.
The 150 staff in the main company headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire, UK also support the local sales offices in Charleston, South Carolina, USA and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Golfbreaks.com prides itself on an unwavering commitment to developing employees and has had an Investors in People accreditation since 2006. In 2015, the company was awarded the Gold standard for the second time, joining the top 7% of accredited UK organisations.