Article: Eggheads and Gearheads; CPUs and RPMs - C I Host Sponsors Nascar Race Car; Nascar Sponsorship is Latest in a Line of Quirky Marketing Gimmicks - From Evander Holyfield to Santa Claus.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

BEDFORD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002

Arguably, Christopher Faulkner and his crew are more at home figuring out how to make ones and zeros fly through fiber optic cable than how to make rubber and steel race across asphalt.

But that doesn't mean that the eggheads at C I Host don't appreciate their gearhead counterparts on the Nascar circuit - or that they don't recognize a wise marketing move when it rolls up to their door.

In fact, C I Host has a tradition of using nontraditional venues to build brand equity. The firm's name was seen on the back of Evander Holyfield's boxing trunks by the ...

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