GOLFINO celebrates 25th anniversary

Glinde, 8 March 2011 – “25 Years of Elegance in Sport” – with this motto, GOLFINO AG is celebrating its anniversary in 2011. For a quarter of a century, GOLFINO has been providing its sophisticated customers with exclusive sportswear, which combines high-tech functionality with an elegant, sporting style. The company was founded in 1986 and has continuously grown to become the European market leader for golfwear.

In March, the 25th anniversary will be celebrated with a special promotion for customers – a grand competition with 100 special prizes. The winner of the first prize will receive an exclusive holiday to Mauritius in one of the world’s most luxurious and well-known golf resorts, the “Paradis Hotel & Golf Club” Beachcomber hotel, worth a total of €8,000 | £7,000 | CHF 10,000 | DKK 60,000. The other winners will be given a GOLFINO polo shirt embroidered with their own name or monogram, or a high-quality weekender bag. In addition, everyone who buys something from one of the GOLFINO stores during March will get a chocolate golf ball made exclusively for GOLFINO. Other surprises are set to follow in this anniversary year, such as a top-quality brand book.

Even today, GOLFINO is still a brand that stands for stylish elegance in the world of sport and offers customers a wide range of clothing, as well as numerous accessories and bags. “We make the highest demands of our products and our incentive is to interpret innovative materials and design trends in the elegant, sporting style of GOLFINO, because our customers trust us to do so”, says the company’s founder and CEO Dr. Bernd Kirsten, who manages GOLFINO AG together with his wife, Christel Kirsten. This special combination doesn’t just cater to the tastes of the original golfing target group, but also represents the current trend in linking fashionable sportswear with high-tech functionality.

The brand GOLFINO was founded on 1 March 1986 by Christel and Dr Bernd Kirsten and each of them holds 50% of the shares in this owner-managed company. Starting out as specialists for knitwear, the company soon developed into a supplier of complete outfits in the field of sportswear.
GOLFINO AG is a European company with its headquarters in Glinde near Hamburg and has over 30 of its own stores incl. factory outlets in 10 countries, as well as more than 500 shop-in-shops, from 8 sqm corners (mini shops) to 60 sqm concessions. With subsidiaries in Great Britain, Portugal and Spain, plus branches in the most important foreign markets, GOLFINO is Europe’s market leader in the field of golf fashion. The purchasing and production centre is located in Porto, Portugal, and the materials used come from all around the world. The company currently employs just over 200 members of staff. According to the latest surveys, GOLFINO AG has a market share of approx. 8% in the field of golfwear in Europe, making the company the clear market leader.

GOLFINO AG
Humboldtstraße 19
21509 Glinde, Germany
+49 (0) 40 727 55-132
prchlik@golfino.com
www.golfino.com
Isabelle Prchlik
PR Coordinator

This release was published on openPR.