ICZ Team to Participate in Professional Series Yacht Race
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10. 05. 2007
(Prague, May 9, 2007) – The celebrated christening of six sailing vessels took place this afternoon at the CERE Yacht Club in Prague 4-Podoli. From May 15, the yachts will compete in the new professional series Melges 24 Yachting Tour. ICZ, leading supplier of software and network solutions is one of nine participating companies. ICZ has met with success at similar races in the past.
"The Melges 24 Yachting Tour project brings professional yachting to the Czech Republic. Thanks to the availability of leasing, it will be financially more accessible to a larger circle of racers. For us, it's not just a great sporting event. It's also an opportunity to test our teamwork skills," said Zdenek Jirkovec, Chairman of the Board of ICZ and current captain of the ICZ yachting crew.
Part of the celebration in which the six participating Melges 24 yachts were christened was an exhibition race between competitors from the world of sport, politics, culture and entertainment. These celebrities were also named Godfathers of the new vessels. Among them were director Jan Hřebejk, author Michal Viewegh, actor Marek Taclík, singers Daniel Hůlka and Sámer Issa and models Lejla Abasová, Radka Kocurová and Lucie Váchová. The winner of the exhibition race was the five-member crew headed by Czech yachting racer Radek Smetana and ice skater Tomáš Verner.
The Melges 24 Yachting Tour is a series of five yacht races in the Melges 24 class. This year they will take place between May and October. One of the races in the series includes the 2007 International Czech Republic Championships, in which an expected 15 racing vessels from the Czech Republic and abroad will compete. Among the favorites for the series is the ICZ crew, which won last year's IT & Media Regatta as well the debut season of the Jakub Dosoudil Memorial race.
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ICZ is one of the leading Czech companies in the area of integrated software and network solutions. It provides its customers with services on a wide spectrum of platforms and technologies including customer designed application development and projects in the area of information security. The company focuses on the sectors of public administration, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, logistics, industry and services. Since 2005, ICZ has been providing services for the management of electronic documents via its daughter company EXPRIT. As of December 2006, EXPRIT will be integrated into the ICZ structure in the form of a newly established division. One of the last steps in the strengthening of ICZ’s IT services portfolio is the introduction of services, maintenance and applications in the area of voice communications.
ICZ ISO 9001:2000 a ISO 14001 certified. It is authorized by the National Security Bureau of the CR to handle sensitive information up to the level of “classified.” ICZ is headquartered in Prague with representative offices in Brno, České Budějovice, Plzeň, Opava, Třebíč and in Bratislava and Trenčín in Slovakia.