One of the most highly anticipated occasions during each campaign for both Emirates Team New Zealand and its key suppliers was held at the team base in Auckland. The teams official suppliers function, is where the team have the opportunity to thank the suppliers for their support and update them on where the team is at in the overall program.
Emirates Team New Zealand, the one of two commercially funded sailing teams in this America’s Cup simply could not exist without the support of over 70 official suppliers, a number of whom have been alongside the team for decades, others have recently joined the team for this campaign, yet what they all have in common is to be a selected group of companies that provide high quality products and services, not only in the marine sector, but across a diverse range of industries.
Emirates Team New Zealand hosted the offical team suppliers function at the team base.
Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton explains the special place the suppliers all hold as part of the team, “The support of our suppliers it’s not just a matter of saving costs. We have never and will never be able to compete financially with the huge budgets that the other teams have at their disposal. So for us, it is the suppliers that can offer us not only product but expertise in their fields which add up to something special about this team.”