AVP Johnsonville Hot Winter Nights Tour Heads To 17 Cities LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AVP, Inc. (OTC:AVPI) (BULLETIN BOARD: AVPI) (http://www.avp.com/), a lifestyle sports entertainment company focused on professional beach volleyball, in partnership with AEG Live, LLC, one of the world's largest concert and event promoters, today announced its all-star competitors for the second season of the "sand-sational" AVP Johnsonville Hot Winter Nights Indoor Beach Volleyball Tour. The tour will showcase 2008 Olympic gold medalists Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers along with other top Olympians and AVP players. Now in its second season, the AVP Johnsonville Hot Winter Nights Tour takes the beach experience indoors when it visits 17 cities in January and February 2009. "Beach volleyball is a year round sport so its really great that we're able to extend the elite level of competition the AVP provides well into the winter months," says 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Phil Dalhausser. "We'll bring the beach, the party and the excitement in to every stop we hit. I know fans will enjoy the whole experience. I'm really pumped to be a part of the Hot Winter Nights Tour this year." "This tour gives our die hard fans and new fans a first hand look at the best athletes in the world," said AVP CEO and Commissioner, Leonard Armato. "On the heels of dramatic performances on the world's stage in Beijing, this year's tour is set to satisfy volleyball fans everywhere." Along with reigning Olympic and World Champions Dalhausser and Rogers, the star-studded line up of athletes participating in the tour include 2008 Olympians Nicole Branagh, Elaine Youngs, Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal. Gibb and Rosenthal return to the winter tour along with fan favorite Casey Jennings who all shared top honors earning three titles each during the tour's inaugural run. Also returning to the winter tour on the women's side 2004 Bronze medalist Holly McPeak and rising star April Ross who both brought the heat indoors with their stellar performances in 2008. The AVP Johnsonville Hot Winter Nights Tour is the first indoor volleyball tour of its kind and will kick off the 2009 season on January 15. Each tour stop consists of a three-hour round robin tournament, as well as an indoor beach party. Taking place during the dead of winter, the Hot Winter Nights Tour brings the beach, Olympians past and present, and the most popular players from the summertime AVP Crocs Tour to arenas in snowbound cities all over the U.S. 2009 AVP Johnsonville Hot Winter Nights Tour schedule: Thu., Jan. 15 - Albany, NY - Times Union Center Fri., Jan. 16 - Fairfax, VA - Patriot Center Sat., Jan. 17 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena Thu., Jan. 22 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena Fri., Jan. 23 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center Sat., Jan. 24 - Indianapolis, IN - Conseco Fieldhouse Thu., Jan. 29 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center Fri., Jan. 30 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center Sat., Jan. 31 - Cedar Falls, IA - McLeod Center Thu., Feb. 5 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena Fri., Feb. 6 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center Sat., Feb. 7 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena Thu., Feb. 12 - Portland, OR - Rose Quarter Sat., Feb. 14 - Salt Lake City, UT - E Center Thu., Feb. 19 - Reading, PA - Sovereign Center Fri., Feb. 20 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Coliseum Sat., Feb. 21 - Charlottesville, VA - John Paul Jones Arena For more information about AVP and the AVP Johnsonville Hot Winter Nights Tour, visit http://www.avp.com/. About AVP, Inc.: AVP, Inc. is a leading lifestyle sports entertainment company focused on the production, marketing and distribution of professional beach volleyball events worldwide. One of the fastest growing entities in the sports world, the AVP operates two of the industry's most prominent national outdoor touring series, the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour (1983) and the AVP Hot Winter Nights Indoor Tour (launched in 2008). The AVP is set to stage more than 35 events throughout the United States in 2009 and features more than 150 of the top men and women competitors in the sport. AVP athletes won both the women's and men's gold medals at the 2008 Games in Beijing, marking the first gold medal sweep by a single country in the history of Olympic Beach Volleyball. AVP is headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., and the company's stock trades under the symbol AVPI on the OTC Bulletin Board. For more information, please visit http://www.avp.com/. About AEG Live: AEG Live, LLC, the live-entertainment division of Los Angeles-based Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc., is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance, touring for a variety of programming, and multi-media production. AEG Live, the nation's second-largest concert promotion and touring company, is comprised of special event, broadcast and exhibition divisions, fourteen regional offices, and numerous state-of-the-art venues nationwide. The company's national promotion arm is currently producing tours and productions including Bette Midler "The Showgirl Must Go On" and Cher at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; and "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," an international tour of the artifacts of King Tut. Recent and upcoming promoted concert tours have included artists such as Justin Timberlake, Bon Jovi, Hannah Montana, Spice Girls, Prince, Christina Aguilera, Kenny Chesney, So You Think You Can Dance, Paul McCartney, High School Musical, American Idols Live and The Color Purple. Goldenvoice, the company's Southern California-based regional promotion division, created and operates the award-winning annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival as well as Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival. The company operates NOKIA Theatre at Grand Prairie in Texas, NOKIA Theatre Times Square, and recently opened NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE. For more information, go to http://www.aeglive.com/. About Johnsonville Sausages, LLC Wisconsin-based Johnsonville Sausages is the number one national brand of brats, Italian sausage, smoked-cooked links and fresh breakfast sausage links. Johnsonville Sausages products are available in 27 countries including France, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China and the United States. Johnsonville employs 1,300 members. Each of them takes ownership of product quality to ensure the excellence and "Big Taste" of Johnsonville Sausages. Founded in 1945 by Ralph F. & Alice Stayer, the company remains privately owned today. Forward Looking Statements Some of the information in this press release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the Company. We wish to caution you that these statements involve risks and uncertainties and actual results might differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, if we receive less sponsorship and advertising revenue than anticipated, or if attendance is adversely affected by unfavorable weather. Event-related expenses, such as for the stadium, transportation and accommodations, or security might be greater than expected; or marketing or administrative costs might be increased by our hiring, not currently planned, of a particularly qualified prospect. Additional factors have been detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our recent filings on Forms 10-KSB and 10-QSB. DATASOURCE: AVP, Inc. CONTACT: media, John Tellem, ext. 2, , or Dan Grody, ext. 3, , both of Tellem Worldwide, +1-310-479-6111; or Crystal Fukumoto of Brener Zwikel & Associates, +1-818-462-5605, , all for AVP; or sponsorship opportunities, AVP, +1-310-426-8000, Web site: http://www.avp.com/ http://www.aeglive.com/

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