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Mark Stott's Stockport County partner with AI start-up GroundWOW

The company has agreed a development partnership with the National League club

GroundWOW launched towards the end of 2019

Stockport County, who are owned by prominent businessman Mark Stott, have signed a deal with a company which develops autonomous machines which print on the ground.

GroundWOW is led by chairman and CEO Tony Rhoades and was launched in the fourth quarter of 2019.

The Altrincham company has agreed a development partnership with the National League club who play their home games at Edgeley Park.

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GroundWOW's chief commercial officer David Pritchard said: "We are absolutely thrilled to finally announce this.

"We have been talking for a while and the deal makes sense on so many levels. Stockport’s ambition is obvious to anybody who is around the club just now and with ambitious plans of our own, it felt like a great fit from the moment we first met” continued Pritchard.

"At this stage in our own roll out, we need to work with creative thinkers, innovators and individuals that are willing to embrace what technology has to offer.

"We saw that straight away in County who have never shied away from doing things differently.