Freeworld Coatings comes on board as Title Sponsor for Grand Designs Live 2010

Last edited: March 25, 2010

Posted by Business and Arts South Africa

Grand Designs Live, the highly anticipated award-winning exhibition that is set to enthral and inspire homeowners at the Coca-Cola Dome from the 21st to the 23rd of May 2010, is proud to announce that Freeworld Coatings has come on board as title sponsor for the event. It’s the perfect match: South Africa’s leading manufacturer of Decorative, Automotive and Industrial coatings partnering with an international brand experience unlike any other to visit our shores. This is an exciting joint venture that will ultimately benefit the thousands of visitors expected to attend this incredible event; a partnership based on quality and shared ideals that will ensure that the Grand Designs Live experience will be unlike any other ever in South Africa.

“This is the perfect sponsorship opportunity for us,” remarks Andre Lamprecht, CEO of Freeworld Coatings. “Freeworld Coatings is a free thinking, responsible and successful innovator, qualities that are inherent to the Grand Designs Live brand. We’re incredibly excited to be title sponsor for the first event of this kind in South Africa, and look forward to being a part of what will undoubtedly be a momentous occasion for local homeowners.” With a heritage that stretches back 118 years, Freeworld Coatings, with their well known décor brands Plascon, Midas, Earthcote and Hamiltons, manages to match deep experience with brave innovation, whilst striving to find better ways of doing things.

“We’re honoured and excited to have Freeworld Coating on board,” says Ben Gannon, the Exhibition Director for Grand Designs Live. “We believe that we share the same vision when it comes to high standards and quality, but

most importantly we are aligned in our commitment to finding ecologically sound solutions to lessening our impact on the environment.”

For the consumer it means an opportunity to enjoy the very best of the Grand Designs Live exhibition. It boasts the kind of programme that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all kinds of home-improvers. Expect hundreds of South Africa’s leading companies, a comprehensive seminar programme, advice clinics hosted by leading industry

organisations, and state of the art houses. There really is something for everyone, with five different exhibition spaces under one roof, each dedicated to showcasing the best in interiors, technology, Build/DIY, kitchens, bathrooms as well as gardens.

Thousands of people have already been inspired by Grand Designs Live in the UK and now, together with Freeworld Coatings, thousands more South Africans will get to experience this multi-faceted, high-quality event.

For more information please call 011 835 1565