Slovakia And Mexico Are World Champions

Slovakia And Mexico Are World Champions

May 15, 2006

Spirited Finals in Continental AG's In-House World Football Championship Tournament
Biggest Sports Event in The History of The Company a Huge Success

    HANOVER, Germany, May 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Slovakia and Mexico are world champions! The men's team at
the Continental plant in Puchov took the title in
Continental AG's own world football championship
tournament, the ContiTeamCup. Around four weeks before the
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany(TM) gets underway, the team
emerged victorious in a match on Sunday against the team
from Portugal. The final score was 1:0. Previous to that
match, the women's teams from Mexico and Czech Republic
provided spectators thrilling finals action. The team from
Mexico carried away the title with a 4:0 victory.

    "As an official partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup
Germany(TM), we wanted to underscore our involvement in this
event also within our globally active company. We
magnificently succeeded in doing so with the ContiTeamCup.
And in the process, we not only treated ourselves to some
very exciting matches but -- much more importantly --
brought players at different plants and from different
countries together. With the team spirit exhibited in the
ContiTeamCup, our employees breathed life into the motto of
the tournament -- "Uniting Goals". Last but not
least, the ContiTeamCup got us even more revved up for the
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany(TM)," said Continental
Executive Board chairman Manfred Wennemer in handing the
trophies over to the winning teams.

    In addition to the "cups", the two
championship teams also receive admission tickets to the
quarter finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany(TM) in
Berlin's Olympia stadium on June 30, 2006.

    The finals in Hanover were the culmination of the
biggest sporting event in Continental's corporate history.
More than 100 men's teams from 75 plants in 26 countries
and 16 women's teams from ten countries took part.
Somewhere in the range of 1500 to 2000 employees vied in
hundreds of encounters.  Thousands of employees --
accompanied often by the whole family -- showed up to take
in the action.

    Nine women's and eight men's teams -- involving around
250 employees from Conti plants in 13 countries --
qualified for the finals in Hanover. Teams from Belgium,
Brazil, China, Germany, France, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal,
Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, the Czech Republic and
Hungary came to Hanover with their fans. Eight employees
from the Continental plant in Mechelen, Belgium, even made
the trip by bike, a distance of over 450 kilometres.

    The Continental Corporation is a leading supplier of
brake systems, chassis components, vehicle electronics,
tires and technical elastomers. In
2005 the corporation realized sales of EUR13.8 billion. At
present it has a worldwide workforce of approximately
80,600.

    Hannes Boekhoff
    Head of Press
    Continental AG
    Vahrenwalder Str. 9
    D-30165 Hanover
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