Victory Junction
Victory Junction

OSRAM SYLVANIA pledges support to the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a proud charity of NASCAR, during SYLVANIA 300 weekend.

Lighting leader announces that it will provide expertise, technical and product support to the free year-round camp for children with life threatening illnesses.

LOUDON, N.H., September 18, 2003 -- Lighting leader OSRAM SYLVANIA today announced that the company has officially pledged its support to the new Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman, North Carolina, a free year-round camp for children with life-threatening illnesses, slated to open in summer 2004. Terms of the commitment call for OSRAM SYLVANIA to provide expertise, along with technical and product support for the camp. Charlie Jerabek, president and CEO of OSRAM SYLVANIA, joined Kyle Petty, founder of Victory Junction Gang Camp, in making the announcement.

"Our sponsorship of the SYLVANIA 300 (NASCAR Winston Cup Series) continues to be an extremely rewarding experience for OSRAM SYLVANIA," said Jerabek. "Through this growing association we have been able to learn more about tremendous organizations like the Victory Junction Gang Camp. We whole-heartedly applaud the incredible work that Kyle Petty and his family are doing with this charity and immediately jumped at the opportunity to lend our support."

The seventy acre camp will serve to provide a safe, fun-filled and medically sound camp experience for 1,200 children each summer and a total of 2,800 year round. Due to the camp's variety of buildings that plan to offer the kids an array of diverse functions, OSRAM SYLVANIA will consequently be donating some of the industry's most innovative and energy efficient indoor and outdoor light sources. In particular, the company will be supplying its newest and most exciting lines of entertainment, theatrical, and disco products.

"We are extremely grateful to OSRAM SYLVANIA for donating their top notch products and expertise to the camp," said Kyle Petty. "Our goal is to make a stay at Victory Junction Gang Camp the best possible experience for all of the kids who come. Having SYLVANIA products help light their way definitely helps to further that goal."

The annual summer racing season at NHIS culminates with a Winston Cup Series race in September. Earlier in the year, OSRAM SYLVANIA announced terms of a five-year agreement to provide sponsorship for the event. As a result, the internationally celebrated competition was renamed the SYLVANIA 300. Representing the twenty-seventh of 36 Winston Cup Series races during the 2003 NASCAR schedule, the September race has historically been one of the highest rated NASCAR events on national television and routinely draws crowds of well over 100,000 at the speedway.

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