In 2009 IPL took the decision to become Bath Rugby's main sponsor in order to raise its profile following a Management Buy Out, and to deliver a statement of intent regarding IPL's future business plans and its commitment to the people and city of Bath. Since then both club and company have gone from strength to strength: for IPL, securing several new strategic customers and national level projects, and for the club, a new management team.
For the 2011/12 season IPL will move to a new sponsorship contract as the club's Official Business Partner. As Business Partner, IPL hopes to continue to achieve wider awareness of IPL's Information Technology services within the business community both locally and nationally.
As part of the agreement IPL will brand the South Stand and the corporate hospitality boxes, and will work with the club to organise high–profile business events. Shaun Davey, CEO, IPL commented: “We are pleased to be able to continue our relationship with Bath Rugby. We have always felt that IPL and Bath Rugby share many common values. We support the club's aspirations to grow and are keen to contribute to that success. Whilst being the main sponsor helped us to raise our profile, we are now looking to focus awareness on the specific services that IPL offers within the public and private sector business community. As the Official Business Partner we are able to continue to support the club whilst meeting our business objectives.”
Bath Rugby Chief Executive, Nick Blofeld, said “We are really looking forward to continuing our strong relationship with IPL. They are a great local company, who we have really enjoyed working with, and are very thankful for their continued support, exemplified through this new partnership.”
IPL – Information Processing Limited – is a software development and consultancy company, established in 1979, based in Bath and has 260 employees.
IPL prides itself on its professional and reliable approach to software development, delivering ‘right first time’ solutions which significantly reduce Total Cost of Ownership.
IPL's quality, environmental and information security management systems are certificated to ISO 9001/TickIT, 14001 and 27001.
IPL provides enterprise level solutions for major industry sectors including aerospace and defence, banking and finance, emergency services, government, telecoms and media. IPL's clients include Nationwide, BT, ITV, Thales and Sony.
