Scottish Rugby has agreed a four-year extension with its official kit supplier Macron that will see the Scotland national team wear its shirts until the end of June 2021.  The new agreement shows a substantial increase in Macron’s investment in Scottish Rugby and sees the kit supply contract combine with Macron’s existing role as official retail and online partner to form a larger, consolidated deal.  As well as kitting out the country’s two professional clubs, Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby, Macron will continue to supply match and training kit to all of Scotland’s men’s and women’s age grade and representative teams.The deal will also include the supply of bespoke playing kit to the Scotland 7s squad, who compete internationally in the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Series throughout the season. Fans can continue to buy the extensive range of official Macron merchandise all year round at BT Murrayfield’s Macron store and on Glasgow Warriors match days, at Scotstoun in Glasgow.Macron will also operate the official Scottish online store at shop.scottishrugby.org with the fulfillment of all orders being processed directly from a soon to be completed warehouse facility at BT Murrayfield. The Italian technical sportswear manufacturer, which is based in Bologna, will continue to supply a wide variety of high street and online retailers across the UK, with Scottish Rugby directly benefiting from all sales of official merchandise made through these outlets. Since becoming Scottish Rugby’s official partner in 2013, Macron has won the support of fans through its bespoke match, training and leisure kit designs, which have resulted in record sales of Scotland and pro club shirts as well as merchandise over the past few seasons.  Macron CEO, Gianluca Pavanello said: “We are truly honoured to be renewing our partnership with Scottish Rugby which will see Macron represented again at a Rugby World Cup, this time in Japan in 2019. We have also been very proud to be associated with the on field success of Scotland’s professional teams, most notably Glasgow Warriors winning the Guinness PRO12 and Edinburgh Rugby’s runs in European competition – we look forward to being an integral part of their continued success. “There is a fantastic working relationship between our organisations and the reaction of Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh fans to the bespoke collections we have produced, has been incredible and only inspires us to come up with new, innovative ideas to make future kits even more stylish and technically advanced.The renewal will allow Scottish Rugby and Macron to continue to progress some very exciting projects in terms of the product development of its teamwear ranges as well as the official online and retail operations. This will allow Scottish Rugby fans to have access to top quality, technically advanced product ranges combined with market leading customer service.”  Scottish Rugby’s Chief Executive, Mark Dodson said: “It is fantastic news for Scottish Rugby that Macron, one of the fastest growing sports brands in Europe, has decided to extend its partnership. This record-breaking deal is the result of the outstanding relationship that has developed since Macron first started supplying kit to Edinburgh Rugby in 2010. “The agreement now covers both the kit supply and retail/online services for Scottish Rugby and we look forward to working with Gianluca and his team in the coming seasons to develop and produce ranges of kit and merchandise that will continue to prove popular with players and fans alike.”