North East Stars receives a helping hand for 2007 season.

[Bally]

North East Stars receives a helping hand for 2007 season.
By: Randy Bando (ttproleague).

TT Pro League Club North East Stars have acquired a sponsorship deal with Economy Supermarket for their 2007 season and the ‘Sangre Grande Boys’ will now be known as ‘Economy North East Stars’.
According to Owner/Manager of the Sangre Grande based Club Darryl Mahabir the deal with the Sangre Grande Supermarket is more of a partnership than a sponsorship agreement and believes it can go beyond the 2007 season.
Speaking with ‘ttproleague.com’ Mahabir confirmed the deal saying, “Economy Supermarket has joined us for the 2007 season. Economy Supermarket is based in the Sangre Grande community and they are known as ‘the pride of Sangre Grande’ and with their passion to building the community they have grabbed up this opportunity to assist us,” explained the North East Stars Owner.
Mahabir also explained that the deal will help a lot with the professional structure of the Club and will also help with the management and development of North East Stars taking on some of the work load he has been handling on his own over the past years.
“This deal between North East Stars and Economy Supermarket is more a partnership than a sponsorship deal. Owner of the Supermarket Mr. Toney Katwaro is all about giving back to the community and football in general.”
“They would help a lot with various managerial departments of the North East Stars club such as with finance and marketing to help with the further development of our Club.”
The North East Stars owner also believes the deal could go beyond the 2007 season saying, “The agreement is a mutual one and what I really wanted to ensure is that North East Stars stays alive long after Darryl Mahabir,” ended the North East Stars owner.
Economy Supermarket Owner Toney Katwaro who also spoke with ‘ttproleague.com’ was delighted by the opportunity of being part of the Professional Football Club in his community.
“When Darryl who is my good friend, spoke with me about the problems he was having managing the Club I told him that we have to keep the team running and that’s how we decided on the agreement that I would help with the management of the Club and also with finance.”
“If anyone wanted to know about football in Grande they would tell you ask Toney. All during my life as a businessman in Sangre Grande I have given back to the community mainly in the sport of football and cricket.”
“Football is our number one sport here in Grande and we produce a lot of quality players in East Trinidad stretching all the way from Arima to Mayaro. We are also very fortunate to have a professional team in our community seeing that the Borough of Arima doesn’t even have one.”
Katwaro’s main aim now is to keep the professional football club North East Stars alive and kicking as long as possible, “We have always been involved in this sport and we want to make sure that we keep North East Stars FC alive in Grande for as long as we can,” ended the Sangre Grande Businessman.

[trinbago]

Economy Supermarket

We need more people like these to step up....

[che]

Good news for North Stars and the PFL.

[Trini _2026]

great news nice support  .

[Tallman]

TT Pro League Club North East Stars have acquired a sponsorship deal with Economy Supermarket for their 2007 season and the ‘Sangre Grande Boys’ will now be known as ‘Economy North East Stars’.

It's good that dey get ah sponsor, but why de hell dey continuing dis practice of prefixing de team's name wit de name of de sponsor? It doh make no sense tuh me.

[triniairman]

Economy Supermarket

We need more people like these to step up....

If you only know the background of that supermarket you would not be saying that, i am not gonna say more, just think about why i would said that.

[vb]

The answer is quite logical.

Clubs in TT catching dey ass and can't dictate.

Now an Arsenal or Manu U with a HUGE following could dictate terms to a certain degree.

But how many Co.s come and make an offer like that. You hadda take it how you could get it.

SJJ is one of the few clubs I know that could get away with that.

Or am I wrong? ARe they CL Financial Jabloteh??

VB

[Bally]

The same thing happen to Ranger Superstar sports out off business for years and he continue to use Superstar not St Ann’s Rangers sign with these corporation is like selling your soul

[Grande]

The same thing happen to Ranger Superstar sports out off business for years and he continue to use Superstar not St Ann’s Rangers sign with these corporation is like selling your soul

and "Economy" doh exactly give off the same vibe as "Superstar", esp for a sports team

[dcs]

Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
February 18 2007
UNBELIEVABLE?

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Newsday has carried a series of courageous, hard-hitting editorials recently. One of them referred to the attempts at “corporate interference” in their articles. The PR persons at two local companies had called Newsday to complain that the paper was referring to local institutions/Steelbands by their known, or given names. They considered that they had the authority to instruct Newsday to “prefix” the steelband name with the corporate sponsor’s name. What utter arrogance! I will never use any corporate sponsors name to “prefix” any local institution whether steelband or sports team. I know the major steelbands as Desperadoes, Renegades, All Stars, Invaders, etc. Long after their transient sponsors have left, these steelbands, and others, will be part of us, so I insist on giving them their true identity. Thank you, Newsday, for standing strong. Your only slip was in not naming these outrageous sponsors.

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[dcs]

Hmmmm....so Newsday doesn't prefix for steelband but what about the sports teams?

Look like they is have the sponsor name somewhere in the article but still refer to the team by the known name for most of the article.  But that is just going from this last one:  Jabloteh pair off to England

[Deeks]

Good Evening Guys,
                               That is real good news for NE stars. People don't realise the amount of resources needed to run a professional outfit. Thank you Mr. Katwaro.

Sponsors always want their name in the forefront. They putting out money, they want the public to see their name. This is not a new phenomena in TT. This has always been the procedure for sponsored teams, whether football, steelband, cricket, cycling, netball, hockey, rugby. But I have never heard a company insistence on its taking precedent over the team name. If this is the case I protest. Everybody know Arsenal, Chelsea, Manu, Real  Madrid sponsors. They don't say Emrates Arsenal or Seimens real madrid etc. Them sponsor should know that the public is not stupid. But Congrats to Grande. The country team survive to fight another day. I hope the fans come out an support