HAYS SIGNED AS OFFICIAL RECRUITMENT PARTNER OF YOKOHAMA F. MARINOS

Hays, the world’s leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, announces today that it is expanding its already strong relationship with City Football Group by becoming the Official Recruitment Partner of Yokohama F. Marinos.

Three-time J-League winners, Yokohama F. Marinos, are based in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city. The popularity of football has grown in Japan in recent years and is fast becoming the most popular sport in the country. The Club’s Nissan stadium is the largest sports stadium in Japan, with capacity for over 72,000 fans.

Hays is currently the Official Recruitment Partner of both the men and women’s Manchester City Football clubs and New York City Football Club. Hays will be activating its three-year sponsorship through using the Club’s crest, player imagery, logo exposure on training wear and powerful brand messaging with a focus on producing content for digital and social media platforms, as well as match-day LED advertising and advertising in multiple domestic programmes each season.

Marc Burrage, Managing Director, Hays Japan said:

“We are really pleased to be extending our already strong relationship with City Football Group by partnering with one of the J-League’s most exciting teams, Yokohama F. Marinos. We very much look forward to helping them accomplish their goals on and off the pitch, and are excited to be coming up with innovative ways of activating the partnership.”

Kurosawa-san, Yokohama F. Marinos President, added:

"It is with great pleasure to announce that Hays has become the Official Recruitment Partner of Yokohama F. Marinos. On behalf of everyone at the organisation, I would like to warmly welcome Hays to our family. Talent, diversity, teamwork and performance, are common values shared between Hays and F. Marinos, and I truly believe the two brands complement each other perfectly. As a part of City Football Group, it is also an exciting moment for us to partner with Hays in Yokohama, as we are able to build on the long-standing and successful partnerships with our sister clubs in Manchester and New York."
 

About Hays

Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group. The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 30 June 2018 the Group employed 10,978 staff operating from 257 offices in 33 markets across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2018:

– the Group reported net fees of £1.072 billion and operating profit (pre-exceptional items) of £243.4 million;
– the Group placed around 77,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 244,000 people into temporary assignments;
– 19% of Group net fees were generated in Australia & New Zealand, 26% in Germany, 24% in United Kingdom & Ireland and 31% in Rest of World (RoW);
– the temporary placement business represented 58% of net fees and the permanent placement business represented 42% of net fees;
– Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA

About Yokohama F. Marinos
With its tradition and history, Yokohama F. Marinos asserts a distinct presence as one of the best major clubs in the J league. The name MARINOS, given to the most prestigious club leading the J league stands for “Sailors” in Spanish.

The emblem is an overlay of crossing the seven seas to conquer the world, and the image of our hometown, the International port of Yokohama. We are a club among the “ORIGINAL10” founding members and by maintaining a consistent stable fighting performance we have ensured that we have never once been demoted since the establishment of the J league. A great achievement was to become the yearly J league champion twice in a row in 2003 and 2004.