Dear Members and Friends!
Planning and organizing the upcoming 2nd Annual Phoenix Oktoberfest is in full swing, and this year’s event promises to become even more successful that the inaugural Oktoberfest held in 2006. We continue our relationship with Warsteiner, the queen of beers, represented by Republic National Distribution Company, and we again welcome Lufthansa German Airlines as one of our major sponsors.
With our sights set on increasing public awareness of the only authentic Oktoberfest in Phoenix, we have engaged the services of Field Works Events & Marketing, a company which has successfully organized many similar events in Arizona, several western states and Canada.
While the framework is set for another exciting day at Margaret T. Hance Park in Downtown Phoenix, we are inviting sponsors to come forward and participate in this festival and use this opportunity to market their products and services to 3000 future customers. We offer vendor spaces, advertising programs and exhibit areas all designed to make your marketing efforts pay off. We especially encourage companies and business with a German component, may it be ownership, product palette or services, to become involved as our intentions are to showcase the availability of German products and services in the Greater Phoenix area.
Of course the focus of this Oktoberfest in the Park is the German heritage and culture which we bring to the event with two bands from Germany, great German beers and wines and all the wonderful German food you would expect, such as bratwurst, schnitzels, and roasted chicken, complete with all the trimmings—potato salad, sauerkraut, pretzels and even apfelstrudel, baked by our German food vendor, Kaffeekuchen Restaurant and Café.
The organizer of this authentic Phoenix Oktoberfest is the Arizona Center for Germanic Cultures, Inc., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation founded in 2005 and representing people of Germanic roots, mostly from German-speaking countries, such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland. All proceeds will be used to advance the plan to establish a Germanic Center of Heritage and Innovation which will showcase the contributions the Germanic people have made to the American way of life.
Welcome to Phoenix Oktoberfest 2007! Please contact us with leads for potential sponsors to set up a meeting mutually beneficial for their organization and the Arizona Center for Germanic Cultures, and of course plan to be at the best Germanic event in Greater Phoenix on Saturday, October 13, 2007! Please go to the website for event/sponsor information: www.phoenixoktoberfest.com.
Wolfgang Klien
President, Arizona Center for Germanic Cultures
(480) 502-8510
wjklien[ at ]cox.net
Christine Colley
Chair, Oktoberfest Committee
(480) 754-6436
Christine.Colley[ at ]us.henkel.com
