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NXTI News Next Inc. Secures Legendary Notre Dame Quarterbacks License; Compliments Branded Collegiate Product Offerings
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2005--Next Inc. (OTCBB:NXTI) an emerging leader in the sportswear and promotional products industry announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Legendary Sports for the Legendary Notre Dame Quarterbacks license www.NDQB1.com.
The Legendary Notre Dame Quarterbacks are 20 quarterbacks, a group consisting of some of the biggest names in college football history and covering the most memorable, successful eras of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football. They're some of the biggest names in college football history. Every one is a member of the Legendary Notre Dame Quarterbacks, as are 14 other players who have shaped one of college football's most storied programs.
The list reads like a Who's Who of Notre Dame and college football history: Paul Hornung, Joe Montana, Joe Theismann, Gus Dorais, Harry Stuhldreher, Frank Carideo, Angelo Bertelli, Johnny Lujack, Bob Williams, Ralph Guglielmi, Daryle Lamonica, John Huarte, Terry Hanratty, Tom Clements, Blair Kiel, Steve Beuerlein, Tony Rice, Rick Mirer, Ron Powlus and Jarious Jackson.
It's a group that has combined for: Five Heisman Trophies, 13 All-America selections, 15 Top 10 Heisman finishes, 11 National Championships, 22 Associated Press Top 10 finishes, three NFL Most Valuable Player Awards and two inductions into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Robert Budd, CEO commented, "We're pleased to have secured the Legendary Notre Dame Quarterbacks license. Notre Dame students, alumni, faculty and fans are fiercely loyal and tremendously supportive of their Fighting Irish. This is a license that we believe will compliment our existing Notre Dame branded apparel offerings which have traditionally been one of the top selling colleges. We look forward to working with them and the Collegiate Licensing Company in representing this prestigious institution. Go Irish!"
Next, Inc. is a creative and innovative sales and marketing organization that designs, develops, markets, and distributes licensed and branded promotional products and imprinted sportswear primarily through major college and university, motor sports and other major promotional key licensing agreements and the Company's own proprietary designs. Next is one of the dominant companies in the highly fragmented licensed promotional products and imprinted sportswear industries.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which contains a safe harbor for forward-looking statements. The Company relies on this safe harbor in making such disclosures. The statements are based on management's current beliefs and assumptions about expectations, estimates, strategies and projections. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements.
