• The Continental plant in Korbach, Hesse, is supporting five social projects in the region with €15,000
• Donation was the champion's prize in Continental’s World Cup Tournament

Hanover, December 20, 2010. The Korbach plant of the international automotive supplier Continental is donating the €15,000 champion's prize won in an company football world cup tournament to five social projects in Hesse. Members of the champion Korbach team and plant manager Lothar Salokat presented the check to representatives of the selected organizations on Monday in the plant's administration offices. "Continental and Korbach have a strong relationship and have been linked together firmly for years. That is why we would like to help the people in and around Korbach with this gesture," explained Sven Mewes, HR officer and athletic director of the plant's team. "From all of the suggestions submitted by employees in the past months, we decided together to support the "Highwalker" drug prevention project of the TSV 1850/09 Korbach, the "Julian" typification of the children's cancer assistance association Waldeck-Frankenberg e.V., the Mädchenbus Nordhessen Association, the Korbach Tafel and the Lebenshilfe Werk of the Waldeck-Frankenberg region with our champion prize," Mewes added.

The men's team of the Hessian plant landed the championship title last September in Hanover in the tournament that lasted more than two years. On the road to the championship, the team faced off against teams from football nations such as Brazil, England and Portugal, winning €15,000 for charities along the way. The other top three women's and men's teams from Brazil, Germany (Frankfurt), Italy, Mexico and Romania will be making their donations totaling €45,000 early in 2011.

Back in the spring of 2009, Continental blew the starting whistle for its second corporate world football tournament. Running parallel to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa^TM, for which Continental is an official partner, women's and men's teams from about 100 locations competed for the Continental world championship title. The Hanover-based automotive supplier first brought the ContiTeamCup to life for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany^TM. The tournament caught on with employees and became the largest sporting event in the history of the company: More than 150 women's and men's teams from 26 nations contended for the Continental World Cup in hundreds of national and international games viewed by thousands of spectators.

The ContiTeamCup 2009/2010 was run the same way as the tournament four years ago. All locations were eligible to enter women’s and men's teams. Teams played each other first at the local level, then at the national level and finally at the group level. The group winners advanced to the finals in Hanover. The qualification games were played in the period from April 2009 to June 2010. The finals were held September 17 to 19, 2010, in the corporation's home town of Hanover.