Icon maintains links with Golf Championship

Event branding specialist Icon has been awarded the contract to provide all course, advertising and wayfinding signage for the 2008 European Open Golf Championship.

The event, one of the highlights of the international golfing calendar, is taking place at its new home - the London Golf Club, Ash, Kent - on 3-8 July, 2008.

Commenting on the contract, Andrew Hodson, sales and marketing director for Icon, said: "We have had a long relationship with the European Tour and this event in particular, but the move to this new course provides us with different challenges in terms of signage design and implementation.

"We will be working with the Tour to develop some exciting concepts to firmly establish the newly designed event image, while ensuring that essential information is clearly communicated to the thousands of spectators that will be attending the event".

Icon has a strong association with the European Open, having worked on the event since 1983, when, sponsored by Panasonic, it alternated between Sunningdale and Walton Heath.

Since that time the championship has moved to the East Sussex National, and then to Dublin's K Club, under the sponsorship of General Accident and the Smurfit Kappa Group respectively.

The event is one of a number of projects fulfilled by Icon on behalf of the European Tour, alongside the Irish Open, BMW Championship, Quinn Direct British Masters and the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2006.

Situated close to Brands Hatch in North Kent and boasting two outstanding courses in The Heritage and The International, The London Golf Club first hosted the European Seniors Tour in 1995 when South African John Bland won the inaugural London Masters.

The 2008 European Open will take place on the Heritage Course, where work has already started on developing the event overlay.

Founded in 1947 Icon has over 50 years of experience in signage and branding.

From its headquarters in the South-East of England it employs nearly 70 full-time staff, who are able to offer a full range of services including creative design, digital and screen printing, sign writing and full advice and installation support services across the company's range of signage solutions.

More recently the company's work on international projects, has led to the establishment of offices in Berlin, Doha, Ontario, and Shanghai and plans are in place for additional new ventures further afield.

All this is supplemented by the company's ability to provide complete project management solutions to meet clients' requirements for design, and print, permanent and temporary signage.

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