Plus500 Limited Plus500 Signs Official Sponsor of Brumbies

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Plus500 Limited

05 December 2016

5 December 2016

Plus500 Ltd.

("Plus500" or "the Company")

New Sponsorship Agreement

Plus500 to become official sponsor of top Australian rugby union team, the Brumbies

Plus500 Ltd., a leading online service provider for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a sponsorship agreement ('Agreement') with the Brumbies, the Australian professional rugby union team ('the Brumbies'), to be its Official Sponsor for the 2017/18 season.

As part of the Agreement, the Plus500 logo will feature on the front of the home and away Brumbies shirts for both national and overseas matches. Plus500 will enjoy a range of branding rights as the team will be officially named as 'Plus500 Brumbies', at the Brumbies' GIO stadium and beyond as well as a host of other sponsorship benefits.

The Brumbies is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Canberra that competes in the Super Rugby competition and is a member of the Australian Rugby Union. Super Rugby is the preeminent professional men's rugby union football competition in the Southern Hemisphere and Japan featuring teams from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Japan. The Brumbies is the current champion of the Australian conference of Super Rugby, and is also one of the most successful of the Australian teams, having been the Super Rugby champions in 2001 and 2004. The Brumbies are based at the GIO stadium, which has capacity for more than 25,000 spectators.

Asaf Elimelech, Chief Executive Officer of Plus500, said: "We are honoured to be partnering with such an esteemed rugby team as the Brumbies, which has established a strong pedigree over the last twenty years. The Brumbies is a natural fit for us as Australia represents one of our key markets, while the team shares a winning mentality and mutual passion for striving for success.

"This partnership with a top Australian Super Rugby team that plays in the premier global rugby union club competition, together with our existing partnership with Atletico Madrid in football, extends our strategy of increasing our brand recognition and expanding our customer base globally."

Simon Chester, General Manager - Commercial of the Brumbies, added: "We are delighted to welcome Plus500 on board. We are eager to leverage their support of sport around the world and in the process extend the Brumbies already strong global brand. Plus500 is a well-regarded business and we are very pleased to be part of the same team."

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About Plus500

Plus500 has developed and operates an online trading platform for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally over more than 2,250 different underlying global financial instruments comprising equities, indices, commodities, options, ETFs and foreign exchange. The Company enables retail customers to trade CFDs in more than 50 countries. The trading platform is accessible from multiple operating systems (Window, smartphones (iOS, Android and Windows Phone), tablets (iOS, Android and Surface), Apple Watch and web browsers. The Directors believe that the success of the Company to date has been primarily due to the proprietary technology it has developed and continues to develop to support the trading platform. The trading platform has been designed to be as intuitive and easy to use as possible. The trading platform has been localised into 31 languages. The Directors believe that this emphasis on technology, together with the Company's targeted online marketing strategy, has helped to differentiate the Company from its competitors.

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December 05, 2016 02:47 ET (07:47 GMT)