Samsung, Int'l Paralympic Committee Extend Partnership Through 2020 Games

Samsung Electronics has signed an agreement with the Int'l Paralympic Committee to extend its partnership through to beyond the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. For the next six years of this agreement, Samsung, which has sponsored the IPC since '06, will remain one of the IPC's official worldwide paralympic partners and will expand after '16 its category of sponsorship to the "Wireless Communications Equipment and Computing Equipment," including smartphones, tablets, laptops, personal computers and other computing equipment, and desktop printers. Samsung and the IPC will continue the Samsung Paralympic Blogger program, where Paralympic athletes have the chance to connect with fans via social media (IPC).