{"id":271057,"date":"2010-02-03T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:05:01","slug":"yingli-green-energy-chinese-company-makes-history-with-2010-world-cup-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/271057","title":{"rendered":"Yingli Green Energy: Chinese Company Makes History with 2010 World Cup Sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>When have you officially arrived as a green energy company? When you\u2019ve installed your first gigawatt? That\u2019s so old economy. It\u2019s when you fork over ridiculous money to sponsor a sporting event.<\/p>\n

Yingli Green Energy, a photovoltaic\u00a0solar panel manufacturer, officially crossed the threshold this morning when it trumpeted its sponsorship of the World Cup<\/a> in South Africa this June. The release from FIFA, the international soccer body, is here<\/a>.<\/span>Yingli is the first green energy company, and the first Chinese concern, to sponsor the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n

No word about the amount of cash that changed hands in the deal, though \u201ctier one\u201d sponsorships, or Partners, start above the $100 million mark<\/a>. Sponsors include McDonalds, Budweiser and the Indian-owned Satyam IT services company, among others<\/p>\n

The parties also made a claim to greater significance in the deal.<\/p>\n

Yingli\u2019s statement claims,<\/p>\n

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Yingli Green Energy is answering FIFA’s call to make the world’s most popular sport not only a celebration of the game but also a sign of respect for the planet that we inhabit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

FIFA is hoping that Yingli is the first of many Chinese companies to plow money and resources into the event and hopes to grow the game in the world\u2019s most populous country.<\/p>\n

FIFA’s marketing director Thierry Weil told<\/a> Reuters, “China is a given, China is one of the powerhouses of the world,”<\/p>\n

Yingli gets global marketing rights, including ticket and board advertising, and the right to showcase its solar products in the fan zones. The company can also showcase its logo next to the World Cup Official Emblem.<\/p>\n

Yingli had earlier committed to providing solar panels for the official 2010 campaign \u201c20 Centres for 2010,\u201d a building program that will provide community centres and pitches in areas throughout South Africa.<\/p>\n

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When have you officially arrived as a green energy company? When you\u2019ve installed your first gigawatt? That\u2019s so old economy. It\u2019s when you fork over ridiculous money to sponsor a sporting event. Yingli Green Energy, a photovoltaic\u00a0solar panel manufacturer, officially crossed the threshold this morning when it trumpeted its sponsorship of the World Cup in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}