Rhino Rugby News
RHINO JAPAN SCOOPS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD
Posted on November 17 2014
Rhino Japan won the New Market Entrant Award on Friday at the prestigious British Business Awards ceremony held at the Hilton Tokyo Hotel. Rhino Japan Chairman David Syrad and Managing Director Saburo Takahashi received the Award from British Ambassador Tim Hitchens. This follows on from Rhino’s Supplier deal with the...
RHINO GLOBAL SEMINAR AT TWICKENHAM GREAT SUCCESS
Posted on November 14 2014
For the second successive year Rhino staged a Global Seminar to bring together staff, sales agents and licensees from all over the world. This time the splendid venue was the newly refurbished Presidential Suite at Twickenham Stadium. As well as our licensees in the teamwear, leisurewear/apparel, artificial turf and male...
RHINO BECOMES SUPPLIER TO JAPAN
Posted on October 31 2014
Rhino is delighted to announce that it has become a Supplier of contact and training equipment to the Japan RFU. We recently delivered a full set of training equipment to the Japanese national squad training camp ahead of their games with the All Black Maoris in Kobe this Saturday and...
WELSH RUGBY UNION RENEWS RHINO OFFICIAL SUPPLIER DEAL
Posted on October 29 2014
Rhino has recently signed a new four year deal to continue as Official Supplier of contact and training equipment to the Welsh Rugby Union.Rhino has occupied this role since 2005 and this deal, which encompasses support for the game in Wales from international level through to grass roots, runs through...
RHINO EXHIBITS AS OFFICIAL SUPPLIER AT RUGBY EXPO AT TWICKENHAM
Posted on October 22 2014
Rhino-Turf MD Jonathan Gallagher with Reggie the Rhino Rhino has been an Official Supplier at all 6 Rugby Expos to have taken place since 2008 and once again we unveiled our stand at Twickenham for this year’s event. Rhino Rugby equipment, Rhino Rugby League, Rhino Apparel and Rhino-Turf were all...
RHINO-TURF ATTENDS CC GRASS 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS IN CHINA
Posted on October 22 2014
Reg Clark and Jonathan Gallagher with CCG CEO Qiangzhong Wang. The range of artificial turf products sold by our licensed operation Rhino-Turf is made exclusively for us for CoCreation Grass based in Nanjing in China. CCG is a remarkable success story – the company has in 10 years gone from...
Win a Signed British and Irish Lions Collision Top
Posted on October 20 2014
Want to be the owner of a British & Irish Lions collision top signed by Manu Tuilagi? As you can see, the Leicester boys have been busy and Tuilagi's top was the first to be whisked off by the Rhino Team. Just join our mailing list below to enter and...
RHINO RUGBY LEAGUE AMBASSADORS PULL OFF UNIQUE DOUBLE
Posted on October 13 2014
Ryan Hall Rhino is delighted to have been a Partner and Official Supplier of the European Super League for the last two years and once again our Vortex Elite ball was used at Saturday’s Grand Final at Old Trafford where St Helens defeated Wigan 14-6 in a typically bruising and...
RHINO-TURF GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
Posted on September 30 2014
Artificial turf is one of the biggest growing sectors in the Rhino product portfolio. This season sees the top of the range Rhino-Turf VT60 surface featuring not only on a full size pitch at London Irish's new state of the art training ground in Sunbury, but also on the main...
RHINO SUPPORTS INAUGURAL ANDREW WIDDOWSON TROPHY
Posted on September 25 2014
Rhino was delighted to support yesterday’s game between Oxford University Greyhounds and Edinburgh University at the Iffley Road ground in Oxford. The match, a thrilling 24 all draw, was instigated by EURFC President Andrew Widdowson, who played for the club as an undergraduate in the late 1970’s, including traditional annual...
RHINO AT ENGLAND PARTNERS DAY
Posted on September 24 2014
Anthony Locke with the Womens RWC, Junior RWC and Triple Crown trophies Rhino were represented by Group CEO Reg Clark and MD Anthony Locke at the 2014 England Rugby Partners Day at the County Hall Marriott Hotel in central London today. Together with other England Rugby sponsors and suppliers they...
MADIGAN BACK AT TOP OF GUINNESS PRO12 RHINO GOLDEN BOOT AWARD TABLE
Posted on September 23 2014
Ian Madigan receives the Rhino Golden Boot Award from Group CEO Reg Clark, Dublin 2013. With only 3 rounds of the Guinness PRO12 competition played, some familiar faces are already at the top of the Rhino Golden Boot Award league table. Ian Madigan of Leinster, who took the Award in...
Rhino Rugby Apparel and Save the Rhino International Team Up to Fight Poaching
Posted on September 11 2014
Rhino Rugby Apparel is proud to announce that they have joined forces with Save the Rhino International to help combat the growing problem of rhino poaching. Sadly, three rhinos have been killed per day on average so far this year in South Africa alone (with 769 rhinos poached in the...
RHINO OPEN DAY FOR PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS AT ROSSLYN PARK
Posted on September 10 2014
Rhino took the opportunity today to host an Open Day at Rosslyn Park for our promotional products for corporate and fan engagement. With the Rugby World Cup countdown having started many corporates, facility managers and agencies are looking for activation ideas for events and Rhino has developed a range of...
RHINO SUPPORTS NATIONAL PARALYMPIC DAY
Posted on September 01 2014
[caption width="700"]Wally Salvan and members of the England Wheelchair Sevens Rugby team at the demonstration in Olympic Park.[/caption] National Paralympic Day at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London on Saturday featured a demonstration of the relatively new sport of Wheelchair Sevens Rugby, a sport which was invented recently in...
RHINO LAUNCHES NEW LONDON WELSH KIT
Posted on August 29 2014
Seb Jewell and Olly Barkley in the new home and away kit Rhino Teamwear today launched the new London Welsh home and away kit for the coming Aviva Premiership season. Dave Reynish and Keiron Blackburn of our Cardiff based supplier were on hand at Old Deer Park as the traditional...
RHINO AT GUINNESS PRO12 LAUNCH
Posted on August 28 2014
Rhino joined fellow sponsors Guinness and Specsavers at the PRO12 launch today at Diageo HQ in West London. For the fourth consecutive year Rhino is supplying our market leading Vortex Elite ball to the competition and Cardiff based Rhino Teamwear are providing the referees and pitchside officials kits. [caption width="700"]Jamie...
RHINO BRAND AMBASSADOR RYAN HALL IS MAN OF THE MATCH IN RL CHALLENGE CUP FINAL
Posted on August 26 2014
Rhino Rugby League Brand Ambassador Ryan Hall secured the prestigious Lance Todd Trophy as Man of the Match in Saturday’s Tetley’s Bitter Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley. With a Rhino ball tucked under his arm the Leeds Rhinos winger, hailed by many as the best in the world...
RHINO SPONSORS GRASSROOTS POLISH RUGBY TOURNAMENT FOR FOURTH YEAR
Posted on August 20 2014
Rhino was delighted once more to support the Piotrowice Nyskie International Rugby Festival held last weekend. Hosted by expatriate Englishman Jim Parton and his Polish wife Anna on their fourteenth century estate in Silesia on the Polish-Czech border, the event which was shortlisted in 2012 for the Rugby Event of...
RHINO CONGRATULATES ENGLAND WOMEN ON WORLD CUP TRIUMPH
Posted on August 18 2014
Rhino are proud to have been an Official Supplier to England Rugby for over 25 years and in recent years the England Womens team under coach Gary Street have made full use of our world leading products for their match preparations. We would accordingly like to congratulate captain Katy Mclean,...
RHINO-TURF NZ MAKES CRICKET BREAKTHROUGH
Posted on August 04 2014
Rhino’s artificial turf business continues to grow exponentially on a global basis, and Rhino-Turf New Zealand has recently made another breakthrough in installing its first cricket facility. The indoor practice area has been constructed in Donnelly Park in Levin, where Rhino’s NZ subsidiary Powa Products is based. The Levin Cricket...
RHINO BECOMES FIRST PARTNER OF PARLIAMENTARY WORLD CUP 2015
Posted on July 24 2014
Rhino Rugby has today been announced as the first Partner of the Parliamentary World Cup which will be held in September 2015 in the week immediately before Rugby World Cup in England. Rhino will supply the match balls and pitch kits for the tournament, which will be staged at the...
RHINO-TURF RELOCATES TO HOUNSLOW
Posted on July 11 2014
[caption id="attachment_2656" align="alignnone" width="300"] Proprietors Anthony and Jonathan Gallagher with one of the distinctive Rhino-Turfed Smart cars which have become a feature of London traffic.[/caption]Rhino-Turf and its sister organisation Easigrass have recently relocated their main HQ/Operations Centre from Brentford to Hounslow. Along with other companies they have vacated their premises...
The Mindset of Champions
Posted on July 10 2014
Rhino Rugby partners The Rugby Site are excited to announce a new interview series featuring a line-up of the world’s top players and coaches - “The Mindset of Champions". Preview the first part of the series: Dan Carter on his approach to rugby. In this series players and coaches will...
RHINO IN PUSH TO RE-ESTABLISH IN JAPAN
Posted on June 26 2014
As described in the Heritage section of our website - Rhino has in the past been represented in Japan and originally sold a great many roller and sled style scrum machines in that market in the 1980’s and 1990’s. With the Rugby World Cup in 2019 and the Olympic Sevens...
RHINO-TURF BREAKTHROUGH INSTALLATION IN NEW ZEALAND NEARING COMPLETION.
Posted on June 18 2014
[caption id="attachment_2607" width="300"] Bas Lodewijkx (centre) and his installation team with Robert Taylor (far right).[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2619" width="300"] ...and here's one we did earlier - the magnificent new Rhino-Turf VT60 multi sport pitch at ACS in Singapore[/caption]Rhino-Turf has recently launched in New Zealand via our subsidiary Powa Products International. MD...
DAVID CAMPESE HELPS RHINO SUPPORT RUGBY DEVELOPMENT IN GREECE
Posted on June 03 2014
Rhino Director Jonathan Allen and son Raymond with David Campese. Australian rugby legend David Campese was the Special Guest at the Athens Sevens at the weekend - sponsored by Mars/M&Ms, staged at the Apostolos Nikolaidis stadium in Athens and supported by Rhino. 'Campo' not only ran a rugby school at...
RHINO SUPPORTS INAUGURAL ATHENS RUGBY SEVENS
Posted on June 03 2014
In addition to being lucky enough to be partners with some of the most prominent teams in world rugby - the Lions, England and Wales amongst others - Rhino has always been committed to supporting the development of the game at grassroots level. In Greece, we have recently supported a...
FASTEST MAN IN WORLD RUGBY IS ON THE BALL WITH RHINO
Posted on June 02 2014
Carlin Isles runs in one of his six tries in the opening leg of the GB 7s at Allianz Park. Rhino has been proud to be Official Ball Supplier for the GB 7s for the last two seasons. This year’s series kicked off at Allianz Park in North London on...
RHINO AT PARIS RUGBY SHOW
Posted on May 30 2014
Rugby is now truly a global sport. Today, Friday May 30th Rhino France are exhibiting at the inaugural Paris Rugby Show at the Port de Versailles Exhibition Centre at the same time as Rhino-Turf are at the South African Sports Surfacing Conference in Johannesburg and Giles Greenwood of Rhino and...
Dan Carter and Richie McCaw tribute to Jonny Wilkinson
Posted on May 29 2014
As Jonny Wilkinson plays his last game of his career on Saturday for Toulon in the Top 14 final, two legends of the game have paid tribute to Jonny and his career. Dan Carter, the only player to have scored more international points than Jonny, holds high respect for the...
RHINO-TURF ATTENDS JOHANNESBURG CONFERENCE
Posted on May 28 2014
Rhino-Turf have in recent days been at the South African Sports Surface Conference at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. The market in South Africa is very much on our radar, and that of Reggie the Rhino who thought nothing of travelling the length of the continent to add this conference...
CHEDDAR VALLEY RFC MEMBERS ENJOY ENGLAND PRIZEWINNERS DAY AS RHINO GUESTS
Posted on May 23 2014
[caption id="attachment_2500" align="alignnone" width="283"] England captain Chris Robshaw with Gareth Chew.[/caption] The winner of Rhino's competition to attend the England Prizewinners Day, held this year at the Lensbury Club on Thursday 22 May was Cheddar Valley RFC. Cheddar qualified by purchasing a Rhino Bundle Pack, and having won the draw...
RHINO TO THE FORE IN RABODIRECT PRO12 FINAL
Posted on May 23 2014
For the third consecutive year Rhino has been a sponsor of the RaboDirect PRO12. We have supplied the kit for referees and pitchside officials and the Rhino Vortex Elite as the match ball for all games throughout the 22 rounds of the ordinary competition. This year the final will be...
RHINO CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR GOAL’s HUMANITARIAN AID PROGRAMMES
Posted on May 23 2014
For over 25 years Rhino has been a strong supporter of GOAL, the third world relief and development charity with its origins in Ireland. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s we gave GOAL their first London office presence inside the then Rhino office in Holborn, and we have continued...
RHINO WINNERS AT RABODIRECT PRO12 AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Posted on May 15 2014
Following the regular season of 22 rounds of matches, and ahead of this weekend’s play-off semi-finals, the winners of the Rhino Golden Boot Award for the best goalkicker in the tournament and the Rhino Collision Kings Award for the most improved team at the breakdown were announced this week. JJ...
RICHIE THE RHINO MAKES HIS DEBUT AT VARSITY CUP FINAL IN US
Posted on May 07 2014
Our new mascot in the US, Richie the Rhino, was unveiled to fans at the Rhino sponsored Varsity Cup Final between University of California and Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City last Saturday and was very well received. He joins Reggie, Rhino-Turf’s much loved mascot who has been a...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY ENTER RHINO POWERHOUSE COMPETITION
Posted on May 06 2014
Rhino’s search for the oldest surviving Powerhouse scrum machine still in regular use has produced a response from Oxford University RFC who have nominated their 1985 vintage machine. The machine, which crucially receives an annual service by Rhino, has as a result been in continuous use since being acquired and...
RHINO COLLISION KINGS 2014 – SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED.
Posted on May 06 2014
GLASGOW WARRIORS, CONNACHT AND BENETTON TREVISO VIE FOR PRESTIGIOUS AWARD The Rhino Collision Kings Award is awarded each year to the team in the RaboDirect PRO12 which has shown most improvement at the breakdown throughout the regular season. The trophy is a replica of the groundbreaking Collision King machine invented...
RHINO EXTENDS LIONS LEGACY PROGRAMME FROM HONG KONG AND SYDNEY TO.....WEST HARTLEPOOL.
Posted on May 06 2014
Rhino were delighted to work with fellow partners HSBC on their legacy programme on the triumphant British & Irish Lions tour to Hong Kong and Australia last summer. As part of the programme a full set of training equipment was donated by HSBC, with Rhino’s assistance, to grass roots rugby...
RHINO SPONSORS VARSITY CUP IN USA
Posted on May 06 2014
Rhino is a major sponsor of the Varsity Cup Rugby Championship in the US. The final was played last Saturday in Salt Lake City between defending champions Brigham Young University and the University of California. Last Year BYU beat Cal Rugby 27-24 with the last kick of the game and...
RHINO PRO12 GOLDEN BOOT AWARD – HANRAHAN OF MUNSTER BACK IN LEAD WITH TWO ROUNDS TO GO.
Posted on April 29 2014
JJ Hanrahan of Munster has retaken the lead in the race to the Rhino Golden Boot Award for the best goalkicker in the RaboDirect PRO12 regular season. With two rounds left before the play offs, with an 87.27% success rate he edges ahead of Gareth Davies of the Cardiff Blues,...
RHINO COLLISION KING MAN RICHIE GRAY APPOINTED BY SPRINGBOKS THROUGH TO WORLD CUP.
Posted on April 25 2014
Richie Gray, the inventor of the Rhino Collision King, brand ambassador and international skills coach for Rhino, has been appointed as specialist breakdown coach to the Springboks for a two year period which will encompass the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Galashiels based Gray will continue to clock up the miles...
Oldest wins: Does your club have the oldest Rhino scrum machine?
Posted on April 25 2014
Staff of Repton College in Dubai with their Rhino Powerhouse scrum machine. Rhino have launched a search for the clubs withthe oldest Powerhouse scrum machines which are still in use.The Rhino Powerhouse was developed in the late 70s and early 80s and was the world’s first mass produced scrum machine. The...
TREVOR WOODMAN GIVES RHINO MASTERCLASS AT GLOUCESTER
Posted on April 25 2014
Rhino have recently concluded a supplier deal with Gloucester in the area of scrummaging machines and contact equipment. As part of an agreed programme of joint activity, last week England World Cup winning prop and current Gloucester Scrum Coach Trevor Woodman conducted a masterclass at the Kingsholm ground for local...
ARMY POWERED BY RHINO EQUIPMENT NOTCH UP SUCCESSFUL FIRST LEG IN INTER-SERVICES COMPETITION
Posted on April 22 2014
Rhino are proud to be Official Suppliers of training equipment to the Army Rugby Union. Whilst Rhino ambassador and consultant Richie Gray put Army coaches through their paces with a master class on Rhino’s marketing leading breakdown product range early last week in Aldershot, we were able at the same...
RHINO SUPPORT LONDON JAPANESE 35TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Posted on April 17 2014
Rhino have a longstanding relationship with London Japanese RFC and we were delighted to support their 35th Anniversary Dinner last week. LJRFC were honoured to have Wales and British Lions legend Shane Williams as Guest of Honour at the event. Shane is currently playing for the Mitsubishi Dynaboars in Japan,...
RHINO SCRUM MACHINES LAST LONGER – WHO’S GOT THE OLDEST!?
Posted on April 16 2014
The Springboks unveil their Rhino Dictator in Cape Town in 2010 with the venerable old Rhino Powerhouse in the background! At Rhino we pride ourselves that our contact and training equipment is very well made and lasts longer than rival products. In particular our scrum machines are sturdy beasts, none...
LEICESTER TIGERS BRING ALGARVE RUGBY FESTIVAL TO FITTING CLIMAX
Posted on April 16 2014
The Algarve Rugby Festival, which began with an exciting 25-22 win for the British Army over Russian club champions Krasny Yar on April 5th, ended with the latter gaining some compensation with a hard fought 13-10 victory over Leicester Tigers on Saturday. The Tigers, with 12 academy players reinforced with...
ARMY COACHES RECEIVE SPECIALIST BREAKDOWN EQUIPMENT TUITION
Posted on April 14 2014
Rhino consultant and ambassador Richie Gray, inventor of the world market leading Rhino Collision King range of specialist breakdown products, gave top Army Rugby Union coaches a tutorial in the use of this equipment in Aldershot today. Rhino are now an Official Supplier to the ARU of scrummaging machines, contact...