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Arctic Nutrition Secures A Significant Multi-Year Collaboration With Basketball Finland

Arctic Nutrition received a major boost to its brand through a multi-year collaboration deal with Basketball Finland, the Finnish basketball association.
Basketball is the second most popular sport globally, and Finnish basketball has significantly risen in its ranking in the last decade. Last year marked a historic moment for Finland with its first-ever NBA All-Star player, Lauri Markkanen.
The company’s products have been popular among national team players for several years, but this new contract is more comprehensive. It includes both men’s and women’s national teams, along with the Helsinki Basketball Academy girls and boys.
Arctic Nutrition sees this contract as much more than just about basketball. Within the company, it is perceived as a platform to promote the vitality derived from nature, with basketball serving as an effective means to convey this message.

“This contract shows us how hard work for high quality pays off. Also it’s truly advancing our goal of becoming one of the esteemed Finnish global companies.
This is the right time for this. We have started our initial operations in 17 new markets in Europe. Also our customer registrations have been rising to the largest numbers we have  seen during the last months ,”

says Arctic Nutrition CEO Teemu

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ItWorks! CEO Donates $3 Million To Michigan State University

 

Michigan State received a $3 million gift that will help support the men’s basketball program, according to a release from the university Thursday.
Mark and Cindy Pentecost’s donation will be used to update the men’s basketball offices, practice facilities and “establish an endowment for continued facility improvements,” according to the release.
The gift is one of the largest ever to Michigan State athletics, and is the third gift of $3 million or more received by the athletic department since the October 2014 public launch of the Empower Extraordinary, which according to the release is “enabling MSU athletics to build championship-level facilities, increase endowment support and elevate annual giving.”
“For many Spartans around the world, the men’s basketball program has been a source of pride and an engine of opportunity not only for the student-athletes in the program, but for the overall student experience on campus,” MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said in the release. “We are so grateful to Mark and Cindy Pentecost for their vision and commitment to help us give ‘Team MSU’ the opportunity for continued excellence.”
Mark Pentecost is the president and CEO of It Works!, a direct-selling company that offers beauty and wellness products. He is a former teacher

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