Sponsors
The LMS Events team are pleased to have a fantastic group of sponsors supporting this event, which in turn supports you and your sport. This ensures you can enjoy a safe, fun and challenging event such as this.
The best thing you can do to keep these sponsors supporting your sport is to support them whenever you can.
Naming Rights Sponsor
Contact Energy – powering people
Contact Energy is one of New Zealand’s leading electricity generators and retailers, and one of the country’s largest listed companies. Employing 1,000 people across the country, Contact generates around 25 per cent of the country’s electricity and sells electricity and gas products to around 600,000 customers across the country.
More New Zealanders have a stake in Contact Energy than any other publicly listed company, with around 79,000 kiwis holding shares in the company.
Contact is currently completing three new energy projects, representing $600 million of investment and has billions of dollars of investment planned for new electricity generation projects harnessing geothermal steam, natural gas, wind and water.
Contact has a significant presence in the Central Otago community, and is proud to be principal sponsor of the Contact Epic. We trust you will enjoy the experience and challenge.
Website: www.contactenergy.co.nz
Gold Sponsors
When you have the challenge of a 125 km mountain bike journey around Lake Hawea you want to make sure your accommodation is taken care of, so you can focus on the race. Edgewater Resort is located on Lake Wanaka, in Wanaka township itself and offers the ideal location to energise before the event, and importantly relax and celebrate after you have completed the challenge.
Our one-bedroom suites and two-bedroom apartments are perfect for you and your support crew. There is plenty of room, with a central dining and lounge area. Each apartment or suite is fitted with a kitchenette, separate bedrooms and washing machines/driers.
Alternatively rest your weary heads in our hotel style rooms, featuring all the amenities you would expect from a four-star plus Qualmark ™ graded hotel. All rooms, suites and apartments open out onto either a balcony or a patio area and most have car parking very near by, if not directly outside the room!
Fuel up with breakfast in Sargoods Restaurant, or at the end of the day celebrate in the Wineglass Café. Stay with us at Edgewater Resort this year and keep your focus on the race.
Website: www.edgewater.co.nz
Infinity Investment Group is a Wanaka-based, property development group with experience in a broad range of residential and commercial development projects including fully master-planned communities.
Currently involved in around $1.6 billion of development in the South Island, including development of New Zealand's newest town - Pegasus, the Group delivers projects of excellence that are characterised by innovation and quality.
Website: www.infinitywanaka.com
Media Sponsors
Radio Wanaka is Wanaka’s number one radio station Radio Wanaka broadcasts on 92.2fm in Wanaka and 99.1fm in Cromwell. Sister-station Wanaka Rox broadcasts on 97fm. The two are Wanaka’s only locally owned and operated radio stations and will be playing a big role in the lead-up to the race.
Co-owner Ed Taylor loves nothing better than getting out for a blast on his mountain bike and is looking forward to taking part in the inaugural Contact Epic. Ed says "We love being involved with all the big events in Wanaka and jumped at the chance to be the official radio station of the Contact Epic, see you on the start line."
New Zealand Mountain Biker magazine is a proud sponsor and the official magazine of the Contact Epic as well as being New Zealand's leading mountain bike magazine.
Inside every issue you'll find trail stories, event reports, interviews, bike and product reviews, workshop features, skills riding tips, rider columns from Craig Pattle and Mark 'Cabin' Leishman, new products, where to ride tips, buyers guides and loads more great mountain biking stories from around New Zealand and overseas.
Website: www.nzmtbr.co.nz/
Student Sponsor
H/ Hunter Valley Station:
Hunter Valley Station, Lake Hawea will once again sponsor 10 local school students in this event. This sponsorship allows our local area school students free entry into this race and an opportunity to achieve a significant sporting challenge.
Students attending Mt Aspiring College, Dunstan, Cromwell and Whakatipu High Schools are eligible to access this sponsorship. Note: If you are a student of another school but live in Lake Hawea or Wanaka, you are also eligible.
