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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
JTG Racing and Kingsford® Charcoal, the sponsor of the #59 Kingsford Charcoal
Ford Fusion race car driven by Marcos Ambrose, today announced a special
promotion and partnership with Rite Aid to benefit Children’s Miracle Network.
During the month of April, Kingsford® will donate $0.25 to Children’s Miracle
Network for every purchase of Kingsford®, Match Light® or Kingsford® Lighter
Fluid products at any Rite Aid store nationwide.
Additionally, the No.
59 Ford Fusion race car driven by Ambrose and his helmet will feature a paint
scheme created by a patient at Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, NC and
will be seen at the May 24 CARQUEST Auto Parts 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
The helmet will be auctioned off by the race team following the race
with all proceeds benefiting Levine Children’s Hospital.
According to
JTG Racing President Tad Geschickter, the gesture of goodwill never gets old.
“The great thing about being in NASCAR is the opportunity that the
platform gives us to touch other people’s lives,” said Geschickter.
“It’s a great gesture by our partners at Kingsford and Rite Aid. I’m
glad we could be a part of the program.”
The race team will distribute
sheets with a blank car design to the children with the help of the Levine
Children’s Hospital staff.
Representatives of Rite Aid, Levine’s
Children’s Hospital, Kingsford® and JTG Racing will select the winning entry.
The artist of the winning selection will attend the race as a special guest of
the race team.
“Contests like this one are beyond special to me,” said
Marcos Ambrose, driver of the No. 59 Kingsford® Ford Fusion race car in the
NASCAR Nationwide Series.
“I’m very much looking forward to meeting our
winner and I’m excited to see their artwork on the car this May. I love it when
our sponsors get behind programs like Children’s Miracle Network, which is
dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by supporting children’s
hospitals.
“I plan to do right by my future designer by giving the paint
scheme a shot at Victory Lane - that would be the ultimate thanks, I believe.”
Children’s Miracle Network is an international, non-profit organization
dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for
children’s hospitals. 170 Children’s Miracle Network hospitals serve kids in
their communities through state-of-the-art medical care, life-saving research
and preventative education.
Since 1994, Rite Aid has raised over US$32
million for Children’s Miracle Network through its annual paper balloon campaign
and special events across the chain. Rite Aid kicked off its national
fundraising campaign for Children’s Miracle Network on Sunday, March 23.
During the campaign, which runs until May 10, more than 112,000 Rite Aid
associates at stores, distribution centers and corporate offices across the
country will sell $1 paper miracle balloons to customers to raise money for
their local children’s hospital.
For more information on Rite Aid’s
commitment to Children’s Miracle Network, visit www.riteaid.com . To learn more
about Children’s Miracle Network and the Levine Children’s Hospital, please
visit www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org and www.levinechildrenshospital.org
respectively.
JTG Racing operates three full-time motorsports teams, two
in the NASCAR Nationwide Series with drivers Marcos Ambrose and Kelly Bires and
one in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with driver Scott Lagasse Jr. The team
also has a part-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series operation with driver Marcos
Ambrose.
JTG Racing also houses a full-service turnkey group, ST
Motorsports Marketing, which handles an abundance of marketing and public
relations programs for all of its sponsors. For more information, please visit
www.jtgracing.com .
Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation’s leading
drugstore chains with more than 5,000 stores in 31 states and the District of
Columbia with fiscal 2008 annual revenues of more than $24.3 billion.
Information about Rite Aid, including corporate background and press releases,
is available through the company’s website at www.riteaid.com .
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