The European Judo Union has extended its long-standing partnership with combat sports clothing and equipment manufacturer Green Hill.
The company will serve as the body’s sole diamond supplier throughout 2016. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The EJU also confirmed that German clothing manufacturer DanRho has signed on as a silver supplier, while Italian sportswear brand Kappa and judo accessories and films supplier Fighting Films have agreed bronze packages.
Hans Paul Kutschera, vice-president of the EJU, said: “We are in close contact with all suppliers and also with several new ones and I am confident that the group of EJU suppliers will grow – for the benefit of the European Judokas and EJU as well as for the benefit of the suppliers.”
The deals bring the EJU’s total number of supplier partnerships to 10.