{"id":72,"date":"2009-12-09T08:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T08:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=72"},"modified":"2020-10-21T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:58:08","slug":"gem-teams-up-with-queens-rugby-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/gem-teams-up-with-queens-rugby-club\/","title":{"rendered":"gem Teams up with Queen&#8217;s Rugby Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>gem has teamed up with Queen&#8217;s University Rugby Football Club to become its principal sponsor for the forthcoming season. This is the second time that gem has ventured into sports sponsorship in its nine-year history, having previously sponsored the Belfast Giants Ice Hockey team in their early days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that by sponsoring Queen&#8217;s RFC we can broaden our appeal to a new demographic of local people who may not have previously considered gem as a career option&#8221; said CEO Philip Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A large percentage of our employees are graduates from across Europe, however we would like to increase the number of local people we employ who are graduating from universities like Queen&#8217;s. We are hoping that this partnership will raise awareness of the gem brand amongst the local student population &#8220;, said HR Director Anita Acheson.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Elliott, Club President said: &#8220;We&#8217;re very grateful to gem for taking on the sponsorship of our rugby team and we believe this partnership will reap dividends for both parties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Queens RFC and gem has brought mutual benefit with gem helping to revamp the club&#8217;s website, which can be seen at www.qubrfc.co.uk with updates of the latest news, fixtures and match reports.<\/p>\n<p>Picture: L-R:, Anita Acheson, Director of HR at gem; Mark Robinson, Captain of Queen&#8217;s RFC; Philip Cassidy, gem CEO and Stephen Elliott, Queen&#8217;s Club President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gem has teamed up with Queen&#8217;s University Rugby Football Club to become its principal sponsor for the forthcoming season. This is the second time that gem has ventured into sports sponsorship in its nine-year history, having previously sponsored the Belfast Giants Ice Hockey team in their early days. &#8220;We hope that by sponsoring Queen&#8217;s RFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[103,101,104,102,100,105],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clubs","category-queens-university-belfast","tag-anita-acheson","tag-gem","tag-mark-robinson","tag-philip-cassidy","tag-queens-university-rugby","tag-stephen-elliott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631771,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/631771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}