Midlands Co-operative Community Stand
Chesterfield FC has signed up another new sponsor for the b2net stadium, currently being developed at Whittington Moor, with the news that the east stand will be known as the Midlands Co-operative Community Stand.
On matchdays the Midlands Co-operative Community Stand will be a family friendly environment as it will be the location for the club's family stand. Behind the scenes there are plans for innovative community facilities that will provide for a wide range of local community activities, including health, fitness and education.
Midlands Co-operative Society Limited is the largest independent retail Society in the UK. It employs 8,000 staff at over 400 trading outlets ranging from superstores to convenience stores, supermarkets, department stores, travel shops, funeral homes, garages, post offices and petrol stations and has gross sales in excess of £800 million. In Chesterfield it has a department store with adjacent food hall, five further foodstores, three travel shops, one petrol station and three funeral homes.
Although trading principally in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and the Greater Midlands, it also has trading outlets in surrounding counties, including, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and South Yorkshire. Head office is in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Midlands Co-operative Society, and before that the Chesterfield and District Co-operative Society Ltd, which Midlands Co-operative Society acquired in 2001, have been great supporters of Chesterfield Football Club for many years.
Midlands Co-operative Society's PR and Marketing Manager Stephen Beresford, said: "We are delighted to be able to maintain our long established association with Chesterfield Football Club at what is a very exciting time for both the club and the town.
CFC Chairman Barrie Hubbard said: "We wish to thank the Midlands Co-operative Society for its continuing valuable support of the club by sponsorship of the new community stand at the b2net stadium."
For more details about the Midlands Co-operative Society go to www.midlandsco-op.co.uk
