Presenting Sponsor

$20,000

• Recognition as primary sponsor, including prominent corporate logo displayed on all paid promotions (television, radio, billboards, newspaper)
• Prominent space for large tent
• Year-long link to your website from your logo on home page of Barbecue Festival website
• Corporate logo printed on the back of all “BBQ Bucks,” which are required for use by all Festival attendees for any purchases
• Prominent display of your corporate banners throughout Festival grounds
• Your logo affixed to Main Stage top banner
• Corporate logo printed on Festival posters and rack cards. These are circulated throughout Western North Carolina, Greenville, Spartanburg and portions of Piedmont South Carolina (minimum: festival posters - 500, rack cards - 5,000)
• Corporate logo printed on official Festival T-shirt
• 20 All-Access passes good for the duration of Festival including all special VIP accommodations
• Free additional admission passes for 20 people (good Friday OR Saturday)
• 20 Festival T-shirts
• Free VIP parking for 10 cars

NOTE: Some print advertising and Festival merchandise must be ordered early. These benefits may not be available for late signing sponsors. Contact Sponsor Chair

Major Sponsors

Level I - $10,000
2010 N.C. State Championship

Main Stage Sponsorship
In addition to other benefits listed below, your corporate logo will be affixed to bottom stage banner

Hog Heaven Sponsorship
This is the area where the competition takes place - put your banners up all around and especially on the Entrance to Hog Heaven sign

Benefits of Level I Sponsorship:

• Recognition as a major sponsor, including prominent corporate logo displayed on all paid promotions (television, radio, billboards, newspaper) Prominent space for your tent
• Year-long link to your website from your logo on home page of Barbecue Festival website
• Prominent display of your corporate banners throughout Festival grounds
• Corporate logo printed on official Festival T-shirt
• Corporate logo printed on Festival posters and rack cards. These are circulated throughout Western North Carolina, Greenville, Spartanburg and portions of Piedmont South Carolina (minimum: festival posters - 500, rack cards - 5,000)
• 16 All-Access passes good for the duration of Festival including all special VIP accommodations
• Free additional admission passes for 16 people (good Friday OR Saturday)
• 16 Festival T-shirts
• Free VIP parking for 8 cars

NOTE: Some print advertising and Festival merchandise must be ordered early. These benefits may not be available for late signing sponsors. Contact Sponsor Chair

LEVEL II - $5,000
Fireworks!
Help us bring back the fireworks—they were greatly missed in 2010. This high-visibility, 20-minute presentation by one of the country’s most well-known fireworks companies, Sambelli Internationale, will be the grand finale on Saturday night, and hopefully on Friday night as well. Major promotion prior to the event is sure to draw attention to your company name which will be associated with printed material, news releases and paid advertising—$7,500 for both nights - $5,000 for Friday or Saturday only.

Riverside Stage
In addition to benefits listed, 10 x 10 tent space in stage area.

Volunteer T-shirts
Prominently display your name and logo on all volunteer T-shirts. Our volunteers will be given these shirts to wear while on duty at the Festival. This is an important gift to the volunteers and a treasured souvenir of the BBQ. And, in addition to other benefits listed below, receive 2 dozen Volunteer t-shirts—$5,000

Benefits of Level II Sponsorship:

• Year-long link to your website from Barbecue website
• Prominent display of your corporate banners throughout Festival grounds
• 12 All-Access passes good for the duration of Festival including all special VIP accommodations
• Free additional admission passes for 12 people (good Friday OR Saturday)
• 4 Festival T-shirts
• Free VIP parking for 5 cars

Contact Sponsor Chair

LEVEL III - $4,000
Foothills Craft Fair
In addition to benefits listed, 10 x 10 tent space in craft area.

Hand Sanitizing Stations
Positioning 25-50 stations throughout Festival grounds each with your corporate logo

Benefits of Level III Sponsorship:

• Year-long link to your website from Barbecue website
• Prominent display of your corporate banners throughout Festival grounds
• 10 All-Access passes good for the duration of Festival including all special VIP accommodations
• Free additional admission passes for 12 people (good Friday OR Saturday)
• 4 Festival T-shirts
• Free VIP parking for 5 cars

Contact Sponsor Chair

LEVEL IV - $2,500
Kids , Teens Fun Park
In addition to benefits listed, 10 x 10 tent space in Fun Park and your corporate banner displayed at entrance to Fun Park.

Food Tent
In addition to benefits listed, and your corporate banners displayed in sponsored food tents and elsewhere on grounds. Sponsor just one tent for $1,500.

Trams
In addition to benefits listed, and your corporate banners displayed on sponsored trams and elsewhere on grounds.

Benefits:

• Year-long link to your website from Barbecue website
• Prominent display of your corporate banners throughout Festival grounds
• 4 All-Access passes good for the duration of Festival including all special VIP accommodations
• Free additional admission passes for 4 people (good Friday OR Saturday)
• 4 Festival T-shirts
• Free VIP parking for 2 cars

Contact Sponsor Chair

LEVEL V - $1,500
Automotive / Marine
Space provided for display of vehicles / boats

Recycling Stations
Your coporate logo on approximately 15 stations in prominent public access areas. You may sponsor individual stations at $100 each.

Vineyard
In addition to benefits listed, tent space providedand decorated as a Vineyard where sponsoring winery can display product and sell wine and/or provide wine-tasing sessions

Courtesy Golf Carts
In addition to benefits listed, dress up carts with your corporate ID as they provided transport through the festival for those who need assistance. (At least two carts will be in service)

Benefits:

• Year-long link to your website from Barbecue website
• Prominent display of your corporate banners throughout Festival grounds
• 2 All-Access passes good for the duration of Festival including all special VIP accommodations
• Free additional admission passes for 4 people (good Friday OR Saturday)
• 4 Festival T-shirts
• Free VIP parking for 2 cars

Contact Sponsor Chair

BANNER SPONSORS
New in 2011, we’re offering a low-cost way for you to advertise your business at the Festival. Let us put your logo on a handsome vinyl banner, 4’ wide x 2.5’ deep, and hang it on the fence for all our arriving guests to admire as they walk by on the way to and from the
Main Gate. Cost and includes the banner. We will hang the banner, but you will want to take it down and use it again and again.
(Banners not removed from the fence by noon on Sunday of Festival weekend will be discarded.) Cost, including banner, $150

If you already own a banner, of reasonable size for the fence, you may bring it to the Chamber of Commerce building by Monday of Festival week and we will hang it for you for only $125.

Contact Sponsor Chair

OTHER SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE
Cooking Demonstrations
If you are interested in participating as a cooking demonstrator, call the Blue Ridge Barbecue Festival office at 828-859-7427 and let’s discuss how we can form a mutually beneficial partnership

Entertainment Sponsorships
As our lineup of entertainers becomes firm, there will be opportunities for sponsors to associate their corporate identity with an entertainer in our advertising and at the Festival. Let us know if this appeals to you. We’ll keep you posted.

Use Your Imagination
Do you have an idea of what you would like to sponsor at the Fesatival, or a role that might be just perfect for your company that we haven’t thought of? Give us a call. Let’s tailor a sponsorship that will promote your business AND fit your budget.

Contact Sponsor Chair