The company's first factory was founded in 1898 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, on the high banks of the Saucony Creek. Over the years Saucony has become well known for being one of the only brands to focus its I+D on the creation of running shoes and as a pioneer promoting revolutionary innovations in the running shoe market. At present the North American brand, made by and for runners, is a key player in aspects such as technology and design and invites runners from all over the planet to discover their world under the slogan Run Your World.
Global Ports Holding (GPH) is the world’s largest cruise port operator with an established presence in the Mediterranean, Asia-Pacific and Caribbean regions, including extensive commercial port operations in Turkey and Montenegro. GPH sponsors a Global Run event every year, in the ethos of global collaboration, peace and understanding. Previous Global Runs have taken place in Bodrum, Turkey; Valletta, Malta; Bar/Kotor, Montenegro; Ravenna, Italy and Havana, Cuba. GPH intends to host a Global Run in each of the destinations within its port portfolio – currently 15 cruise ports around the world – including Barcelona Cruise Port-Creuers Terminals.
Suunto was born in Finland more than 80 years ago, when championship-level orienteer and keen outdoor enthusiast Tuomas Vohlonen invented the mass production method for the liquid filled compass.
Since then, Suunto has been at the forefront of innovation, hand crafting premium sports watches, instruments and dive computers that have been tested in the world’s harshest conditions. From the beginning of time, man has explored. All that has changed are the tools.
The word “Suunto” comes from the Finnish word meaning “direction”. Suunto is pronounced “Soon-toh”.
Forms part of the mission of Zurich to take part and to support initiatives in sports, cultural sponsoring, protection of the environment, climatic change and road safety, for it, we are delighted to support this popular race. Zurich is a leading provider of general and life insurance, multichannel, with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in the whole world. It offers a wide range of products and services of the area of general and life insurances to individuals, small companies, medium and big companies, as well as to multinationals. Zurich, present in Spain since 1884, has more than 2.000 employees in our country. The company has 2,5 million clients and 3,4 million insurances. In Spain Zurich is one of the first insurance companies leaders in the rankings of the sector.
Founded in 2008, Compressport has already set standards in the sports compression market. Within only few years has been able to become the technical market leader in the field of compression products thanks to its special technical features and fibers, design and the quality of its running, trail running, triathlon and other sports range. Compressport is distributed Worldwide and is present in more than 100 countries.
