Zurich sponsors PGA Seniors Open in Bad Ragaz

Zurich - Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) is pleased to be supporting the PGA Seniors Open in Bad Ragaz for the sixth time as one of the co-sponsors. The tournament, which brings together the world’s elite professional golfers, is to take place at the Golf Club in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, from July 2 to 4, 2010.

Supporting golf sport is an integral part of Zurich’s sponsorship strategy and provides Zurich with a welcome opportunity to reach customers and thus to communicate Zurich’s brand values in a symbolic and emotional way.

As an organization, Zurich is deeply involved in golf around the world: in the United States as title sponsor of two PGA Tour events, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and the Farmers’ Insurance Open. In Asia, Zurich supports the newly created Asian Amateur Championship, an event jointly organized by the R&A, the National Augusta and the Asian Pacific Golf Confederation. In Europe, Zurich is a sponsor of the OMEGA European Masters in Crans-Montana and the Celtic Manor Wales Open, the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open in Losone and the ZURICHOPEN in Schönenberg. The PGA European Seniors Open in Bad Ragaz nicely completes Zurich’s golf sponsorship program.

Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) is an insurance-based financial services provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in North America and Europe as well as in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and other markets. Founded in 1872, the Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. It employs approximately 60,000 people serving customers in more than 170 countries.