3/01/2018

21 December 2017; Glasgow, UK:  5or6, a Loughborough based website design and branding consultancy, has been announced as a national supplier to the European Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2019.

5or6 specialises in providing responsive, standards-based Website Design, Branding and Digital Marketing and will use this expertise to create the official website of the Glasgow 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships http://www.glasgow2019athletics.com/

The European Athletics Indoor Championships will take place 1st – 3rd March 2019 in the Emirates Arena in Glasgow and will be a world class competition that will bring 600 of Europe’s best athletes to Glasgow. This is a major staging post on the Road to Tokyo 2020 as athletes fine-tune their performances before the Olympics.

In addition to the global television coverage athletics fans around the world will be able to follow the event through the official website and have access to behind the scenes coverage and interviews, athletic statistics, results and the latest news.

Billy Garrett, Glasgow Life’s Director of Sport and Events, and Co-Chair of the Glasgow 2019 Steering Committee, said: “We are delighted to have teamed up with 5or6 as a national supplier.  With digital marketing so crucial to the commercial success of major events, it is excellent to be working with such an innovative and forward thinking company to ensure we are on trend and provide our customers with the best possible online user experience.”

5or6 Creative Director, Ryan McNamara added:

“As a business based in Loughborough, the heartland of athletics in the UK, we were keen to showcase our digital skills with a major event in this sport and provide an online platform that delivers for all audiences from the athletes and their supporters through to visitors and media.  The website and associated applications are in planning and will be launched early in the New Year.”

5or6’s National supplier partnership of the Glasgow 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships was brokered and contracted by the rights marketing team at The Sports Consultancy. The Sports Consultancy is working with Glasgow 2019 Ltd to secure National Partners and Suppliers.