My friend, Rich Moncreif of Carl Zeiss Optics forwarded this press release to
me.
Zeiss is sponsoring The Biggest Week in American Birding which will be in Ohio
May 8 - 15 this year.
If you google "The Biggest Week in American Birding" you can get further
details if you are interested.
Maggie Gerdts
Subject: PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics
continues Lead Sponsorship for The Biggest Week in American Birding - May 8-17,
2015
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:00:33 +0000
NORTH CHESTERFIELD, VA.,
April 13, 2015 – Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, the world's leading manufacturer in
high performance sports optics, is especially pleased to announce its continued
sponsorship
for The Biggest Week in American Birding by undertaking the Kirtland’s Warbler
Level Sponsor and also acting as the Official Optics of the event.
Organized and hosted by Black Swamp Bird Observatory, The
“Biggest Week" is a 10-day festival featuring some of the best birding North
America has to offer. Among the myriad of events offered during the festival
are workshops, Woodcock Extravaganzas to observe the extraordinary displays of
these woodland shorebirds,
daily walks at the world famous Magee Marsh boardwalk and other area birding
hotspots, evening keynote presentations, birding by ear workshops, and
presentations on world birding. On top of all of that, birding guru Kenn
Kaufman will be teaching several bird
identification classes.
ZEISS will be showcasing a variety of its newest binoculars including the
VICTORY SF, Conquest HD and TERRA ED models. ZEISS staff will be on hand to
discuss optics
selection, digiscoping, and can assist with any service inquiries that our
customers may have. ZEISS will also be demonstrating our award winning
DiaScope spotting scopes. Loaner binoculars and spotting scopes will be
available.
For more information, please see the website at:
http://www.biggestweekinamericanbirding.com/
About the ZEISS Group
ZEISS is an international leader in the fields of optics and optoelectronics.
The more than 24,000 employees of ZEISS generated revenue of about 4.2 billion
euros
in fiscal year 2012/13. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered
in Oberkochen, Germany. ZEISS has been contributing to technological progress
for more than 160 years. ZEISS develops and produces solutions for the
semiconductor, automotive
and mechanical engineering industries, biomedical research and medical
technology, as well as eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and
planetariums. ZEISS is present in over 40 countries around the globe with more
than 40 production facilities,
around 50 sales and service locations and over 20 research and development
sites. Carl Zeiss AG is fully owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss
Foundation).
For media and press relations, please contact:
Richard W. Moncrief
Carl Zeiss Consumer Optics
Phone: (804)-425-8455
E-mail: richard.moncrief@xxxxxxxxx
www.zeiss.com/press
http://www.zeiss.com/sports-optics/en_de/nature/home.html
www.facebook.com/ZEISSbirding
Richard W. Moncrief
Birding & Nature Observation Market Manager
Carl Zeiss SBE, LLC
Sports Optics Division
711 Moorefield Park Drive, Building E
North Chesterfield, VA 23236
Phone: +1 804 425 8455
Fax: +1 804 530 8481
mailto:rmoncrief@xxxxxxxxx
www.zeiss.com/us/sports-optics
