MEDIA CONTACTSPromoWest Productions:Becky Long, Vice President of Sales & Brand Marketing | PromoWest [email protected] G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers:Erica Marcum, Marketing & Partnership Manager | G&J Pepsi-Cola [email protected] Pepsi Announced as the Presenting Sponsor of PromoWest Fest COLUMBUS, Ohio (April 5, 2016) – PromoWest Productions and G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers announced today that Pepsi is confirmed as the presenting sponsor of PromoWest Fest, set to take place July 15-17, 2016, throughout Columbus, Ohio’s McFerson Commons and North Bank Park. The inaugural festival features headliners Walk The Moon, Modest Mouse, Snoop Dogg, Brand New and many more. Bill Stemm, Market Director for the Columbus branch of G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, said “The G & J Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Columbus is proud to be a major sponsor of the inaugural ‘PromoWest Fest presented by Pepsi’. PromoWest Productions has been a valued Pepsi partner since the opening of PromoWest Pavilion, now named Express Live!, more than 15 years ago. Pepsi is excited to be an integral part of yet another exciting music and entertainment event offered by Scott Steinecker and his team. The lineup of PromoWest Fest will match well with our flagship brand Pepsi and its historic focus on music.” “We’ve had an amazing partnership with Pepsi for many years at our concert venues so we’re so excited to have them as the presenting sponsor of our new Columbus music festival,” said Becky Long, Vice President of Sales & Brand Marketing for PromoWest Productions. “Sponsors are one of the key components to the success of our events and Pepsi continues to support our company and help make this festival even better.” The full lineup for the 2016 festival includes Walk the Moon, Modest Mouse, Snoop Dogg, Brand New, Ryan Adams, LL Cool J, Tears for Fears, Mac Miller, The Decemberists, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Fitz and the Tantrums, Milky Chance, All Time Low, Garbage, Lindsey Stirling, X Ambassadors, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Moon Taxi, Atlas Genius, The Wombats, Black Lips, Alunageorge, RJD2, The Dear Hunter, Red Wanting Blue, Black Pistol Fire, Grizfolk, Holy White Hounds, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Banners, Mimicking Birds, Pup, Coast Modern, Finish Ticket, Copywrite, Nick D’ and The Believers, Forest & the Evergreens, Lonesome as Gold, and more. For additional details and ticket pricing, please visit www.promowestfest.com and be sure to like the festival on Facebook and follow along on Twitter @PWFestOfficial.   For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Becky Long at [email protected].   G&J Pepsi-Cola BottlersG&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers employs more than 1,500 people in 12 locations in Ohio and Kentucky; including production facilities in Lexington and Winchester, Kentucky; and in Columbus and Portsmouth, Ohio.  G&J has distribution centers in Hamilton, Ripley, Wilmington, Athens, Chillicothe and Zanesville, Ohio; and in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers produce, sell and/or distribute: Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Max, Pepsi Next, Mountain Dew, Mist TWST, Mug Root Beer, Dr Pepper, Crush, Tropicana, AMP, Rockstar, Starbucks Frappuccino and iced beverages, Lipton Teas, Dole Fruit Juices, Ocean Spray, Aquafina Water products, SoBe energy beverages, Gatorade, Muscle Milk products and O.N.E. Coconut Water. PromoWest ProductionsPromoWest Productions currently offers Columbus, Ohio over 450 events a year at its venues EXPRESS LIVE!, Newport Music Hall, The Basement and A&R Music Bar. PromoWest opened the country’s second indoor/outdoor concert venue, Stage AE, in downtown Pittsburgh in 2010 and purchased Bunbury Music Festival and Buckle Up Music Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2014. For more information on PromoWest, please visit www.promowestlive.com.