Company – designer of Euro-2012 offers its services for Universiade branding
19 June 2012, Tuesday
One of the world’s leaders in the sphere of brand creation and exterior design of sport events - Icon company offers its services in the context of preparation for Universiade 2013. The company’s officials have made a presentation for the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.
Director of the Department for external relations under the RT President – Aide to RT President Iskander Muflikhanov, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Minister of youth affairs, sport and tourism Rafis Burganov, Minister of construction, architecture, housing and utilities Irek Faizullin, Chief of Executive office of Universiade-2013 Vladimir Leonov watched the presentation at the RT Government House.
According to the Icon’s Managing Director Mark Savage, the company is one of the world’s leaders in the sphere of creation and promotion of brands of sport events. Icon deals with exterior design of sport buildings, cities and organization of sport events.
The company’s portfolio includes such events as the Football Champions League, forthcoming Olympic Games in London and Euro-2012, Mark Savage informed.
Icon offers services for Kazan as the city to host World summer Universiade 2013.
Rustam Minnikhanov thanked the company’s officials for presentation and suggested discussing issues of cooperation with ministers and top managers of Executive office of Universiade-2013.
“You are the internationally recognized company and we are interested in your activity. On the other hand, Kazan may attract you as a place to display yourself in the Russian market. Let us combine our interests and our cooperation will be successful,” the Tatarstan President addressed officials of the Icon company.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials