Ford makes the first FC Cologne mobile: The new Bundesliga player of the traditional club - Maniche, Lukas Podolski, Sebastian Freis and Christopher Schorch (v. lks. nr) - received today at Geißbockheim their official car from Ford Germany chief Bernhard Mattes. (Photo: Ford-Werke GmbH, Cologne / F. Stark).

Cologne - Quick actions show it on the football pitch, and fast they are with the Ford vehicles since Tuesday 11 , 2009, the move - the new professional football players of the 1st FC Cologne in the Bundesliga season 2009/2010. Sebastian Freis, Maniche, Lukas Podolski and Christopher Schorch received on behalf of the Premier League team and the management of the 1st FC Cologne, the car keys and certificates for their new Ford company cars.

The Ford Kuga were given to the footballers of today Bernhard Mattes, Chairman of the Board of Ford-Werke GmbH in Cologne, at the Billy Goat's home.

The Cologne-based company announced at the media event, as a vehicle to support equipment manufacturers in the Bundesliga season 2009/2010, the FC players and management of the association with a Ford Fleet. Overall, the "Premium Sponsor Ford" the club provides 32 vehicles: Ford Kuga, Ford Mondeo, Ford S-MAX and Ford Galaxy. As a premium sponsor of the 1st FC Cologne "Ford receives for example the opportunity to present its latest models at the home games of the 1st to present FC Cologne in the Rhein Energie Stadion in Cologne Müngersdorf.

In order for the Ford plant belonging to the "Kölschen tradition" has become partnership with the club. Since 1994, cooperation exists with the club. Five years - 1994-1999 - Ford shirt sponsor was the club, since 1995 the company vehicle sponsor.

With offices in Cologne and Saarlouis and Genk Lommel in Belgium and a total of 29,000 employees is Ford's leading car manufacturers in Germany, both in North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland, the company the largest automobile plants: Alone in Cologne, has the Ford-Werke GmbH over 17,000 employees from more than 50 nations, in Saarlouis, it is further 6,500. The two vehicle plants in Cologne and Saarlouis are designed for an annual capacity of 400,000 vehicles. With the also the Cologne Ford-Werke GmbH counting assembly plant in Genk, Belgium in the province of Limburg, the company is building a million cars a year. Source: Ford

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