Brunswick Billiards to Partner with Matchroom Sport

Bristol, WI., November 7, 2000 - October 16, 2000 - Brunswick Billiards announced today a two year partnership with Matchroom Sport in which Brunswick will become the exclusive and official table sponsor of all Matchroom Sport pool events. These include such premier events as the World Pool Championships, World Pool Masters, St. Andrew’s Cup, World Pool League, the World Pool Trickshot Masters and the Mosconi Cup. Dramatic, intense, and colorful, Matchroom Sport pool events are broadcast live in more than 70 countries worldwide. Event highlight packages are also syndicated across Europe, Australia, South Africa, Japan and New Zealand.

John Stransky, president of Brunswick Billiards, said, “We are proud to join forces with Matchroom to promote this superb international sport. It is only fitting that Brunswick, the most prestigious name in billiards, provide these tournaments with the professional players’ table of choice. We are pleased that the world renowned Brunswick table will be an integral part of showcasing the finest international players and the finest pocket billiard tournaments in the world.”

Barry Hearn, Chairman of Matchroom Sport noted, “This is a meeting of the very best in World Pool. Matchroom is the major promoter of the game; nobody does it like us-and nobody ever will. Brunswick is the company that produces the sport’s No. 1 table. The Gold Crown is the one table that the world’s top players all want, and I am looking forward to taking the sport from strength to strength with Brunswick.”

With a tradition of quality that spans over a century and a half, Brunswick Billiards is a legendary name in the billiard industry. A division of the Brunswick Corporation, Brunswick Billiards is headquartered in Bristol, WI, and is a marketer and manufacturer of a complete line of premier billiard tables, table lights, cues, cue racks, and accessories.