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9 October 2014
DRAKA CONTRACT FOR HOTEL FOOTBALL
Draka branded Universal Cabling (UC) Connect system is to be installed throughout Hotel
Football, a football themed hotel under construction on a prominent site next to
Manchester United’s world famous Old Trafford stadium. Draka’s space-saving Cat. 6
cabling system was proposed by one of Draka’s installation partners Abzorb after they
secured the contract to install the voice and data network cabling and a 200 point digital
TV distribution system at the prestigious development.
The 139-roomed football themed hotel will be home to the Old Trafford Supporters Club,
which is housed in the basement. In addition, the hotel will feature a ground floor
restaurant and shop, a mezzanine lounge and a first floor conference space; above which
are seven floors of hotel rooms. The building is crowned by a roof-top mini five-a-side
football pitch which doubles as an event space.
Cable distributor Comtec Cable Accessories recommended Draka’s UC Connect cabling
system to Abzorb several years ago. It is now Abzorbs preferred solution for both Cat 6
and Cat 6a and has been installed by Abzorb in a variety of projects across the country.

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Kev Hall of Abzorb says “not only is Draka Cat 6 solution extremely competively priced, it
is also very installer friendly and we recommend it to our clients before any other system”
Draka branded UC Connect System is a complete cabling solution for enterprise and
datacentre communications networks. Contractors can be confident in the system quality
which has approval from 3P as part of the third party approval programme. As with all
Draka UC branded cables the product comes with third party approval for cable
performance.
Designed by AEW architects, the £23 million football-themed hotel and club is being
developed by GG Hospitality, a management company set up by former Manchester
United players Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville and The Old Trafford Supporters Club. It is
due to open Winter 2014.
Draka UC Connect products are available through our Authorised Distributors listed below:
Prysmian Group
Draka is part of the Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry.
With sales of some €7 billion in 2013, and more than 19,000 employees across 50 countries and 97 plants,
the Group is strongly positioned in high-tech markets and provides the widest range of products, services,
technologies and know-how. In the Energy sector, Prysmian Group operates in the business of underground
and submarine power transmission cables and systems, special cables for applications in many different
industrial sectors and medium and low voltage cables for the construction and infrastructure industry. In the
Telecom sector, the Group manufactures cables and accessories for the voice, video and data transmission
industry, offering a complete range of optical fibres, optical and copper cables and connectivity systems.
Prysmian is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in the Blue Chip index
Cardinal Way
Cardinal Distribution Park
Godmanchester
Huntingdon
England
PE29 2XJ
Phone: +44 (0)1480 415400
Fax: +44 (0)1480 454724
Email: sales@comtec-comms.com
Web: http://www.comtecdirect.co.uk/
Unit 1
Madingley Court
Chippenham Drive
Milton Keynes
MK10 0BZ
Telephone:01908 282200
Web: http://www.dunasfern.com/
Agecroft Road
Pendlebury
Manchester
M27 8SB
Telephone:0844 848 0905
Web: http://www.nimans.net
Mulholland Avenue
Dundalk, Co Louth. Ireland.
Telephone:+353 42 9331436
Fax: +353 42 9338194
Email: sales@precisioncables.ie
Web: http://www.precisioncables.ie

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Information: www.prysmiangroup.com
Press Enquiries
Anna Hern/Andy Pearson at Ridgemount PR
Tel: 0208 392 0500
Email: firstname.surname@ridgemountpr
For more information please contact:-
Draka Comteq UK Limited
Chickenhall Lane,
Eastleigh, Hampshire,
SO50 6YU
T: +44 (0) 8705 133 143
F: +44 (0)2380 8060 8769
E:mail: uc-connect@prysmiangroup.com