What does CSC sell? What is Quick Step? I think I can figure out what Discovery Channel and Lotto do. #What about some of the others? Thanks.

CSC - Computer Sciences Corporation - ITConsulting Firm - CSC’s global leadership is founded on our unbroken, 48-year record of delivering business results to hundreds of commercial and government clients worldwide. Our single mission is to put IT to work in practical, bottom-line ways.

Quick Step - manufacturer of laminate flooring that is available in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia; while co-title sponsor Innergetic is a sub-brand of Latexco, the leading firm for latex bedding in Europe.

What does CSC sell? What is Quick Step? I think I can figure out what Discovery Channel and Lotto do. #What about some of the others? Thanks.

theres the new thing called Google, its been out for a few weeks now, you should give it a shot.

See the First Result (http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=quick+step&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)

see the second result (http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=csc&btnG=Search&meta=)


It works for other team names too! :D




ok, i'll stop. :)

T-Mobile - telephone service
Euskaltel - basque telephone company
CA - agriculture service
FDJ - france national lottery

CSC is the American Computer Sciences Corp.
Rabobank, Caisse D'Epargnes are banks
I can't figure out what Euskatel or Euskadi do
Quickstep makes flooring
Lampre makes sheet metal
Saunier Duval makes home heating things (like hot water heaters)

CA - agriculture service


Its a bank is it not? Are you thinking Agritubel?

Yes CA is a bank

Predictor is a pregnency test

Lotto is the national Belgian state lottery - oh no it can't be, you can't advertise gambling in France, just ask Unibet.

You can if the gambling is state run and only available in that country. Unibet is a private company that anyone from anywhere can use, hence the ban. F1 cars regularly had to cover up their tobacco sponsorship in France; they are quite fussy about ads. Remember that you cannot advertise prescription drugs in Europe either.

http://www.letour.fr/2007/TDF/LIVE/us/1900/equipes_presentation.html

click on the red arrow in the far right hand column, for a pdf document that tells about the team, and the sponsors

george

Thanks, the pregnancy test sponsor is pretty funny. What would be the most ironic sponsor? Marlboro? Krispy Kreme? (Rass could use a couple dozen)

Thanks, the pregnancy test sponsor is pretty funny. What would be the most ironic sponsor? Marlboro? Krispy Kreme? (Rass could use a couple dozen)

7-11

What would be the most ironic sponsor?

How about Amgen, or Bristol-Myers Squibb?

Yes CA is a bank


You are correct, Credit Agricole is a credit union for farmers initially.

How about Amgen, or Bristol-Myers Squibb?

Why would you think that?
remember, guns don't kill people, nitroglycerine was created to improve the industrial world, the same these medications were created to help humanity, and like most of the time human kind used it for other means.

Barloworld is a multinational conglomerate that started as a one family business in the Republic of South Africa, branched into the mining world with Barlow-Rand, Was the first Caterpillar dealer in Southern Africa and is setting up a branch in Siberia. I'm betting one person, very high in the Company, likes cycling and the team will be sponsored as long as that person stays in power. Much like Disco was sponsored as long as a certain executive was there. He left. Almost at the same the ax was poised over the team.

Rabobank - Professional "acquisition" of funds from large "financial" institutions. Remember, "If it's robbery, it's Rabobank."

Neosporin (J & J) would be a good choice for a sponsor. I sure use enough when I fall on my MTB.

The sponsorships of cycling are very similar to the sponsorships of NASCAR. The drivers of NASCAR sign a contract to drive for a certain team as do bicyclists.

Yes CA is a bank

Predictor is a pregnency test

Lotto is the national Belgian state lottery - oh no it can't be, you can't advertise gambling in France, just ask Unibet.


A Pregnancy test and a Lottery, that's pretty funny.

Thanks, the pregnancy test sponsor is pretty funny. What would be the most ironic sponsor? Marlboro? Krispy Kreme? (Rass could use a couple dozen)


Those Serottas that were relabeled Huffy for 7-11 in the 80s, that's a funny sponsor of sorts. Funny thing about Predictor was I saw it and said "what is that, home pregnancy test?" Name must work. What the companies do is in the current tour issue of Cycle Sport. If you find yourself in a Barnes and Noble check it out and hork the information for free.


I like barloworld, industrial brand management. Whatever that means. Sounds like what companies say when they don't do anything or anything profitable.

Neosporin (J & J) would be a good choice for a sponsor. I sure use enough when I fall on my MTB. QFT! :)

7-11

Actually,

given the number of mini-marts cyclists now use to re-fuel at and rest, this seems like a fairly decent sponsorship.

Milram - German milk products producer
Amgen - Of all things they make EPO, right?

7-11 had a very real and not so ironic team more then 20 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven_Cycling_Team

You are correct, Credit Agricole is a credit union for farmers initially.
Same for Rabobank.

CSC is the American Computer Sciences Corp.
Rabobank, Caisse D'Epargnes are banks
I can't figure out what Euskatel or Euskadi do
Quickstep makes flooring
Lampre makes sheet metal
Saunier Duval makes home heating things (like hot water heaters)

Actually I believe Caisse D'Epargnes is a group of islands off the coast of spain that through their tourism board sponsor a cycling team.

Actually I believe Caisse D'Epargnes is a group of islands off the coast of spain that through their tourism board sponsor a cycling team.

Nope - another bank, a "savings bank" to more literal.

Actually I believe Caisse D'Epargnes is a group of islands off the coast of spain that through their tourism board sponsor a cycling team.

You're thinking Illes Baleares. Former title sponsor of the same squad.

Caisse d'Epargne is definitely a bank.

T-Mobile - telephone service
Euskaltel - basque telephone company
CA - agriculture service
FDJ - france national lottery

agriculture service ??? Sorry, mate, but credit Agricole is one of the largest banks in Europe, :o)

Actually I believe Caisse D'Epargnes is a group of islands off the coast of spain that through their tourism board sponsor a cycling team.

Caisse d'Epargne / Isles Baleares

Joint sponsor, one is a French savings bank, the other a Spanish region...

What does CSC sell? What is Quick Step? I think I can figure out what Discovery Channel and Lotto do. #What about some of the others? Thanks.

Lotto = Belgian lottery office. Shares sponsoring with Predictor, pharma company...

What does CSC sell? What is Quick Step? I think I can figure out what Discovery Channel and Lotto do. #What about some of the others? Thanks.

By the way, these companies have something called a website, and although most are European organisations, they do appear on Google, if you're definitely interested. Not trying to be arrogant here, just bloody wondering why I'm using all this effort to answer, :o))))))

Illes Baleares is sponsored by the tourism board of the Balearic Islands.

Illes Baleares is sponsored by the tourism board of the Balearic Islands.

go to post #28

How about Amgen, or Bristol-Myers Squibb?

who makes EPO and BIOPURE... now that would be ironic :D

on a lighter note, the local division of CSC has been the sole sponsor for a local century ride 2 years running

By the way, these companies have something called a website, and although most are European organisations, they do appear on Google, if you're definitely interested. Not trying to be arrogant here, just bloody wondering why I'm using all this effort to answer, :o))))))

See Post 3 (http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=4956800&postcount=3):)

I have wondered about this for a long time, and the current thread seems to be a great example of the behavior of BF posters. [N.B. In this day and age, probably all posters in any venue.]

They read the initial post, and then take action:

a) Either they are interested in the subject and have something of value to add (in their opinion), and read the thread to find out what has been said before replying, or

b) they take the "whatever I happen to think of must be good since I thought of it" approach and simply respond and move on.

The Forums would be half the size if the former were true even most of the time.

This post is one of the few I have read where earlier posters seem to feel the same way. ;)

who makes EPO and BIOPURE... now that would be ironic :D

on a lighter note, the local division of CSC has been the sole sponsor for a local century ride 2 years running

Amgen is the sponsor of the Tour of California.

Euska(TEL) is a northern Spanish telephone company in the Basque region.
Euskadi is the Basque term for the Basque people/homeland.

[QUOTE=fix;4956807]CSC is the American Computer Sciences Corp.
Rabobank, Caisse D'Epargnes are banks
I can't figure out what Euskatel or Euskadi do

... I can't figure out what Euskatel or Euskadi do

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