Agreement
enables business development, marketing and endorsement of GTX’s innovative
product line
LOS
ANGELES, CA and MINNEAPOLIS, MN – February 28, 2013 – GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB), a leader in customizable, patented 2-way GPS
solutions, and Brewer Sports International (BSI), a
multi-faceted advisory firm building value through sports, wellness and media,
announced today that they have entered into a long term partnership agreement to
maximize GTX’s brand and market awareness in an effort to increase sales and
expand their global reach, including integration of their GPS Smart Shoe
technology with BSI’s Coalition for Concussion Treatment (#C4CT) campaign.
As one of the world’s fastest growing multifaceted
advisory firms with a focus on the business of sports and wellness, BSI will
utilize its extensive network to facilitate outreach efforts with synergetic
companies and partnering organizations as well as secure product endorsements
and global exposure for GTX’s innovative
product line.
In particular, BSI will help secure partnerships and
establish relationships with alumni athletes and affiliates, targeting those
suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and/or Alzheimer’s disease,
professional sports leagues, associations, agencies and unions as well as with
various public and private corporations and international organizations focusing
on health and wellness.
GTX has been a pioneer in GPS Tracking and Personal
Location Based Services (PLS), empowering the global community and keeping people
connected to who and what matters most. Known for its game-changing
and award-winning patented GPS Smart Shoe, which
allows caregivers
to pinpoint the elderly or those with special needs
instantly, no matter where they are, via on-demand location updates and
immediate notifications to any PC, Smartphone or tablet, and block buster
Smartphone GPS Tracking Apps; GTX continues to pave the way and
introduce new products to the market with a focus on e-Health, M2M and proximity marketing.
“We are extremely excited to partner with GTX
Corp not only to promote their patented GPS products, but also in effort to help
address the critical need of finding treatment methods for Traumatic Brain
Injuries (TBI),” said BSI CEO Jack
Brewer. “BSI is fully committed to helping advance TBI
research and development. I am hopeful that our support and this collaboration
will help raise awareness and provide innovative, much-needed solutions for the
treatment of brain injury and concussions.”
BSI also plans to include GTX in their
inaugural Coalition for Concussion Treatment (#C4CT) Concussion Awareness
Conference in Minneapolis, MN on June 19, 2013 where they will have the opportunity to showcase
their products and demonstrate and how they can play an effective role in
providing solutions for those suffering from TBI and/or Alzheimer’s disease.
The #C4CT Conference will serve as the kick-off event of the 8th Annual Blue Carpet Celebrity
Weekend hosted by The Jack Brewer Foundation and will focus on important scientific, medical,
translational and prevention related topics as they pertain to the emerging
societal problem of traumatic concussions and their long-term impacts on
athletes and soldiers.
“Working with Jack and
his firm is a great honor for us and we are equally excited with the
opportunity to extend our GPS monitoring platform to people suffering with TBI
and introduce new products and services to this unfortunately
growing number of our population,” stated Patrick Bertagna GTX Corp CEO. “Jack’s dedication to helping
others is unparalleled which makes working with him in direct alignment with
our core values and mission – helping people stay connected to who matters most.”
GTX
Corp is a holding company that owns and operates three subsidiaries engaged in
the burgeoning $13 billion global LBS/GPS Personal Location Services business. GTX
was founded in 2002, became publicly traded in 2008, and is currently
headquartered in Los Angeles with
distributors in Canada, Mexico, Australia, Nepal and Ireland that serve
customers in 161 countries and counting.
The
Company’s core products and services are supported by GTX’s extensive IP
portfolio of issued patents, patents pending, registered trademarks,
copyrights, URLs and a library of software. In the past four years, the Company
has been featured on CNN, Good Morning America,
The Doctors, Fox News, Discovery Channel, ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times,
the LA Times, U.S.A. Today, the
LA Business Journal and hundreds of other television, radio, magazine and newspaper
media outlets across the globe. GTX Corp has also been formally recognized and
granted various awards by prestigious organizations, including receiving a
special mention in a Google white paper (2008), receiving the People’s Choice
Award for most innovative connected device (2010), being nominated for the 100 Most Important
Inventions of Mankind (2011), being
exhibited in the Technology Museum of
Sweden (2012), included in Entrepreneur Magazine’s
top 100 Brilliant Companies, and being identified by ABI Research as ‘paving
the way into the next billion dollar market.’
Investor
Relations ir@gtxcorp.com
About Brewer Sports
International
Brewer
Sports International (BSI) is a multi-faceted sports advisory firm within The
Brewer Group Companies with a focus on the business of sports, wellness and
media for professional athletes, sports agencies, public and private
corporations and various partners including international organizations,
governments and NGOs. Based in Minneapolis, with offices in New York, Dallas, Beijing and Malawi, BSI was founded by Jack Brewer, a five-year National
Football League (NFL) veteran and former team captain on three NFL teams. The Company also is a founding member of the
Coalition for Concussion Treatment (#C4CT), a movement seeking to raise
awareness of new treatments in development for concussions and nervous-system
disorders. Additionally, BSI has created a unique financial services
platform that is offered to professional athletes and sports agencies, as well
as high net worth individuals and businesses touching professional sports. BSI
takes pride in enabling its clients to capitalize on the endless opportunities
presented through sport. For more information, please visit www.brewersports.com.
Brewer Sports International Media Contact:
Danielle Berman
Director of
Public Relations and Interactive Marketing
(443) 841-4667
