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Flora Group Hotels kicks off their Annual Corporate Sports Program Pearl Fiesta 2012


Dubai, United Arab Emirates (PRWEB) May 10, 2012

Our annual Pearl Fiesta event serves as an avenue for each and every team member of Flora Group Hotels to showcase organizational and team building abilities, as well as unique talents. The tremendous growth seen by Flora Group in 2011 can be attributed to our highly motivated professional associates, who each enjoy working in an environment of mutual respect and trust. We are dedicating this years celebration to our valued team members, said Mr. Mohamed Rafi, Chief Operating Officer of Flora Group of Hotels.

This years event will bring together nearly 500 guests, representing the organizations diversity; several countries and nationalities will be represented. All employees across the groups properties, such as the Flora Grand Hotel, Flora Creek Deluxe Hotel Apartments, Flora Park Deluxe Hotel Apartments and other Flora Hotels, are invited to participate in this years event. Guests, family members and friends of all Flora Groups employees are also invited to be a part of this years celebrations.

Pearl Fiesta 2012 will host games such as football, cricket, volleyball, basketball, carom, table tennis, badminton, and tug-of-war. While each sporting event will certainly crown a victor, the events were chosen for their ability to encourage sportsmanship-like behaviours, foster a sense of community and ultimately, re-energize the organizations employees.

This gathering isnt just a sporting competition. In an effort to cater to their organizations broad spectrum of interests, the event will also showcase cultural and dance activities.

About Flora Group Hotels

The Flora Group of Hotels is a small, quality-driven collection of hotels and serviced apartments located within Dubai – one of the world’s most modern and fastest growing cities.

Flora Group Hotels provides a wonderful choice, whether you are a discerning budget traveller, or in search of 5-star luxury. They have accommodation solution to suit your needs whether it is for leisure, business, a stopover or longer stays.

Their deluxe hotel apartments offer a choice of both full hotel service operations, as well as self-catering facilities. The extensive range of accommodation includes standard hotel rooms, deluxe hotel suites, studios, one, two and three bedroom suite apartments, royal suites, as well as executive and privilege floors.

All the groups hospitality establishments provide only the highest levels of comfortable quality accommodations and conference facilities and we are the perfect choice for your next city break, business meeting or special family occasion.







US Sports Camps Announces Summer 2012 Nike Field Hockey Camp Schedule

San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) March 20, 2012

Nike Field Hockey Camps are designed to help players, ages 1018, develop athletically. Key components to each camp include: mastering fundamental skills; experiencing lots of game competition; making friends; falling in love with field hockey. The goal is to stimulate a love for the game in young athletes by showing them how to accelerate their own progress and success.

The new 2012 summer field hockey camps joining the established network are: University of San Diego, CA; Sacred Heart University, CT; McDaniel College, MD; St. Marys College of MD; Randolph-Macon College, VA; and Manhattanville College, NY.

Each year we work hard to expand our camp network and create a larger variety of camps for our customers to choose from. The vast majority of our campers live within a three-hour drive of our summer camps, so its great to be able to provide more opportunities for more, young athletes, said Stacey White, national marketing director, Nike Field Hockey Camps. Our summer field hockey camps also provide a great opportunity to train with some of the most respected coaches in the nation.

About US Sports Camps

US Sports Camps (USSC), headquartered in San Rafael, California, is Americas largest summer sports camp network and the licensed operator of Nike Sports Camps. The company has offered summer camps since 1975 with the same mission that defines it today: to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill enhancement.

Players, coaches, parents and others interested in the 2012 Nike Field Hockey Camps can visit http://www.ussportscamps.com/fieldhockey or call 1-800-645-3226.





Longstreth Women’s Sports Announces Retirement of Field Hockey Sales Manager Joni Garber

Parker Ford, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) March 01, 2012

Longstreth Sporting Goods today announced that Joni Garber, Field Hockey Sales and Service Manager, is retiring after 13 years with Longstreth. Joni has been involved with the Sporting Goods industry since 1980, specializing in field hockey since 1994.

I have watched the game of field hockey grow over the past 30 years and I value each and every day that I have been blessed to be a part of it, says Garber. Throughout my career I have been very fortunate to have worked with so many great members of the field hockey community and I will carry all of those memories with me as I begin a new chapter in my life. I have been especially fortunate to be part of the Longstreth family which is a supportive and caring group of people whom I call my extended family.

I would like to thank Joni for her many years of service and contributions to the field hockey community, says Jana Withrow, Field Hockey Manager at Longstreth. At Longstreth, Joni demonstrated daily passion, care and commitment to servicing her customers throughout the years. I wish her much happiness in retirement and thank her for the positive impact she has made on both Longstreth and the field hockey community.

Very simply, Joni has demonstrated unparalleled care for the sport of field hockey and its participants, said John Schaefer, Longstreths co-owner. She has set an unbelievable example in providing world class customer service here at Longstreth. We wish her the best, and will continue to follow her high standards in taking care of our customers.

Before coming to Longstreth, Joni was a teacher, field hockey and basketball coach at Pocono Mountain High School. After receiving her Masters Degree at East Stroudsburg University, she was the assistant lacrosse coach at Millersville University where they won the 1982 Division 3 National Championship. That team was then inducted into the Millersville University Hall of Fame in 2010.

Longstreth Womens Sports has been dedicated for more than 30 years to encouraging and developing womens sports. While specializing in Field Hockey, Lacrosse, and Fastpitch Softball, Longstreth can outfit almost any team or athlete. Located just 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia, PA, Longstreth supplies equipment, footwear, uniforms and training gear for female athletes across the United States. Visit Longstreth at http://www.longstreth.com to see the full selection of products.

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PayasUgym.com Joins up with Cranfield University Sports Centre


London, UK (PRWEB) January 27, 2012

By working with payasUgym.com, Cranfield University Sports Centre is joining over 250 other gyms around the UK to support the flexible fitness campaign which payasUgym.com promotes. With a range of options available to customers including discounted day passes right through to one month, three month and annual gym membership, there is something available for everyone.

Having initially launched in London, payasUgym.com is now available in towns and cities across the UK and continues to grow rapidly. With more and more people looking for great deals on gym membership as well as more flexible options such as day passes and short term

memberships, payasUgym.com is at the forefront of the flexible fitness agenda.

payasUgym.com is a very simple service which enables customer to use hundreds of gyms across the UK on a totally flexible basis even if they do not have gym membership there. Customers simply top up their free online account with credit just like topping up a pre-paid mobile phone and they then select the gym the want to use. There are a range of options available including full gym membership as well as discounted day passes, plus 30 day and 90 day gym membership using their credit.

payasUgym.com CEO, Jamie Ward said Cranfield University is known throughout the UK for its fantastic academic credentials and we are delighted to be able to work with the Sport Centre onsite. We have found that University and School gyms have proved to be massively popular with our customers who are on the lookout for a hidden gem where they wont need to queue for a treadmill.

For further information on payasUgym.com, please contact:

info(at)payasUgym(dot)com

Notes to Editors:

Website: http://www.payasugym.com

Company Information:

The idea for payasUgym.com was created by Jamie Ward, Neil Harmsworth and Michael Blake after discussing the difficulties in finding decent gyms in London that you can just go to on a one-off basis.

payasUgym.com was launched in February 2011 and currently offers over 250 gyms in London and Manchester and is currently expanding across the rest of the UK.

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Backyard Sports Hero & Front Page Athletes NextMVP Company today announced the global launch of NextMVP.com’s “Fans-to-Friends”


Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 22, 2011

The official launch of the sports website, NextMVP this weekend is the “change” in sports publicity and interactivity that fans and sports enthusiasts have been waiting for – and helped to create.

NextMVP is a global directory of sports enthusiasts. Its a place for private sports fans and athletes to create public identities. Faced with intense competition from the likes of Facebook, YouTube and ESPN, the developers of NextMVP.com are innovating, developing and releasing products rapidly.

Taking sports lovers from being “fans to friends” was the goal when the new CEO, Marsha Powell, designed this next-generation online sports network that fuses video, information, social interaction, and compelling entertainment. Interactive, informative, entertaining, up-close and real that’s what users asked for and NextMVP delivered it.

On the site, fans can converse and connect with others who share their passion around topics of interest, teams, coaching strategies or certain athletes. Selectively, users are crowned The Next Most Valuable Player by their geographic location or by their sport. The kicker is you dont have to be a professional athlete at all. Many NextMVP users are everyday backyard sports heroes with stories to tell, and photos and videos to back their stories up!

The site is free, clean, easy to sign-on, and allows for immediate sharing of experiences, commentary and announcements. So the development site percolated along for about a year, and then it took hold. Over the last few months, its users have been growing vertically, while its platform has been expanding horizontally.

As you comb through the site, its clear that NextMVP has made a strategic decision not to bombard its users with brand advertising all over its web pages. Instead, as some other social sites have discovered, they pepper the individual pages with subtle brand advertisement and give users the option of when or even if certain advertisement is displayed at all.

Their copout strategy would be to have flashing brands advertising all over the top and sides of each web page. That strategy would definitely lead to a quicker revenue stream, but it would undermine the company principles they have touted to their users. Their COO, Mr. Steward had much to say about their strategy.

“Our goal at NextMVP is to produce original, high quality content, creating incredible online engaging experiences for our users. We are so excited to bring NextMVP to athletes, fans, coaches, families and teams.” said John Steward, COO. NextMVP allows users to narrow the distance that exists between sports fans, athletes and other sports enthusiasts and is a first-of-its-kind experience that allows users to interact directly with their favorite sports interests.”

There’s an expanded user development platform, interactive gaming with chosen draft picks and more language translation coming. And there a lot of different applications that are going to be developed to allow sports minded people to get informed and to share information about their personal sports activities and accomplishments in mobile ways.

While NextMVP delivers users a high degree of interactivity and visibility, users remain in full control of their publishing activity. They may choose to always share activity, never share it or be selective, in what is shared. Each user can select which privacy option best suits their individual needs. Users can share video, photos, commentary and updates to any one of their friends, but friends can also be defined further in to buddies, teammates, associates et cetera, so that users can choose who to share with rather than publicizing everything to everyone.

Whats the future of NextMVP? More growth into global channels, more development of platforms, gaming and mobile applications, and more organization of the sports knowledge they collect. NextMVP plans to enter into more businesses than most people recognize. It won’t be successful in all of them but its influence, resources and innovation are creatively disruptive.

For more information visit: http://www.nextmvp.com

About The Editor

Sandy McCommon is a professional consultant and freelance writer. Sandy offers a wide array of public relations services, marketing communications and media relations solutions. Sandy has previously worked as a management consultant, specializing in information technology. She spent a decade in marketing and management, working for both small and large institutions. Sandy received her bachelors degree from the University of Southern California.

About NextMVP

NextMVP Corporation operates a global online directory of sports enthusiasts. The company, through its proprietary platform, allows members to create, manage, and share their identity online, build and engage with their friends, access shared sports knowledge and insights, and find business opportunities. Its platform also provides members with applications and tools to search, connect, and communicate with fans, athletes, businesses, learn about global opportunities, join industry groups, follow organizations, and share information. NextMVP Corporation was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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