Kia Motors supports the Big Cricket Ride

Kia Motors are helping ex-pro cricketers Chris and David Adams to get on their bikes as they set off to cycle to every 1st class cricket ground to help beat Leukaemia and Lymphoma.
As sponsors of Surrey County Cricket Club and the Kia Oval, the company was only too happy to provide Chris – the county’s cricket manager – and his brother with two new Sportages as support vehicles for their 868 mile challenge as they visit 18 grounds in 15 days during October.
Chris and David, who are both nicknamed Grizzly, will be starting the Big Cricket Ride at Durham County Cricket Club and finishing at the Kia Oval and are inviting celebrities, sponsors and cricketers to join them on various days of their tour.
The Big Cricket Ride is raising money in aid of Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, and the brothers’ motivation is personal.  Chris and David’s father John, was sadly diagnosed with Peripheral T Cell lymphoma attached to the liver last year and is currently undergoing treatment.  Peripheral T cell lymphomas are a group of rare and aggressive lymphomas that affect the T-cells found in the peripheral circulating blood.
Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research are investing more than £1 million into research to understand how these lymphomas arise and develop more effective treatments.  Chris and David’s fundraising efforts will all go to help fund this specific research.
Chris Adams played first class cricket for Derbyshire from 1988 to 1997.  Since then he joined Sussex as captain and captained them to the 2003, 2006 and 2007 County Championship title. Chris had a brief career for England between 1998 and 2000 and is now cricket manager at Surrey County Cricket Club based at The Kia Oval.

David Adams also played for Derbyshire, Gloucestershire and Norfolk County Cricket Club’s.  David launched and founded the Pro4Sport Company with the aim of providing amateur sports people with the quality of equipment professional players have access to.
Simon Hetherington, Dealer Development Director, says: “We are delighted to be able to support Chris and David on the Big Cricket Ride. Its a fantastic project for a great charity. Providing the new Kia Sportage as support vehicles is a practical way for us to support their efforts, and at the same time extend our involvement with cricket beyond the Kia Oval.”
To support or find out more visit www.justgiving.com/BigCricketRide.

RRG Kia Bury are proud to support the Shakers

Created November 02 2011, last modified November 02 2011 10:11:55

RRG Kia Bury are proud to be supporting local league one football club Bury FC.

The dealership on Bolton Road Bury have recently signed an agreement to provide the club with a brand new Kia Sportage for use by the Shakers' commercial department in return for matchday programme advertising and ground boards at Bury's Gigg Lane home.

RRG Kia Bury Dealer Principal Andy Couser was delighted to have agreed the sponsorship deal with the club: "We're really pleased to be able to support the Shakers in this way and will be keepin an eye on their results.  Kia is a new franchise to the Bury area and we hope that this link up will help raise the profile of RRG Kia Bury."

The new Sportage has already made a favourable impression at Gigg Lane, speaking on Bury FC's official website the club's commercial manager Peter Young, said: "To be honest I wasn't that familiar with the Kia brand but since the vehicle arrived I have been tremendously impressed."

Shakers manager Richie Barker was so impressed with the new Sportage, that he recently made a visit to the Bolton Road dealership to buy a new Kia Sportage for himself.

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• Born in 1953 in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, West Germany
• Began studying Industrial Design at Munich University of Applied Sciences
• He won the Audi Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London in 1979.
• Worked with Audi designing some of their most popular vehicles, (A3, A6, Audi TT) from 1978-1996.
• Moved over to working on extremely popular Volkswagen vehicles, designing some of the most memorable VWs on the road including the VW New Beetle and the Golf.
• Hired by Kia in 2006 as part of a brand overhaul, with design as the new corporate direction and mission statement.
• Schreyer went right to work moulding Kia into an identifiable brand, trying to fix what he termed the 'neutral image' of Kia's aesthetic.
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• Since signing on with Kia as their lead design, he's been the driving force behind the brand's new direction, penning the new Forte and Kia Optima, as well as the Sorento, Sportage, the new Rio, most of the Kia lineup. His efforts are a big reason why Kia is growing as fast as it has been, becoming one of the best choices a consumer can make when selecting a new vehicle. Kia vehicles are sharp, sleek, safe and a whole lot of fun to drive, and we welcome you to stop by Kia 417 in Ottawa, ON today to see exactly what we mean.