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Strong partners backing three Porsche 919 Hybrids

Stuttgart. The Porsche Team has strong partners who are passionately supporting the entry of the third Porsche 919 Hybrid for the 6-hour race in Spa and the season’s highlight in Le Mans with Formula One driver Nico Hülkenberg (Germany) and his teammates Earl Bamber (New Zealand) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain) at the wheel. The visibility of the sponsors and partners is growing at the same rate as the Porsche Team’s chances in the races.

“For the first season in 2014 we managed to assemble a great portfolio of partners, and built up a very enjoyable working relationship with them,” said Fritz Enzinger, Vice President LMP1. “When we mentioned the possibility of entering a third Porsche 919 Hybrid, they were all up for it. On top of this, we were able to find new companies who were enthusiastic about our programme.”

DMG MORI: Exclusive Premium and Technology Partner
The name DMG MORI stands for the partnership between two of the world's leading machine tool manufacturers: DMG MORI SEIKI Aktiengesellschaft, Bielefeld, Germany, and DMG MORI SEIKI Company Limited, Tokyo, Japan. Machine tool construction is their core business, and they have achieved a global presence with 21 production locations and 154 national and international sales and service locations. The range includes innovative high-tech machines, services and software and energy solutions. DMG MORI has a developed, broad and diversified customer base in various sectors and regions.

Chopard: Official Timing Partner
Internationally renowned for its watch and jewellery creations, Chopard was founded by Louis-Ulysse Chopard in 1860. Bought by the Scheufele family in 1963, Chopard has built its reputation on iconic collections such as “Happy Diamonds”, “Happy Sport”, “Mille Miglia” and “Superfast”. The firm is also recognized for its High Jewellery creations and fine watchmaking expertise, expressed in the L.U.C collection. Chopard now employs over 2000 people worldwide in 13 subsidiaries.

Vodafone: Official Communication Partner
Vodafone Global Enterprise is part of the Vodafone Group, dedicated to delivering total communications services to the world’s largest multinational corporations. These services are underpinned by their fully integrated fixed and mobile network, cloud-based hosting platforms, Machine-to-Machine capability and professional services. Across established and emerging markets, their global reach spans 150 countries and their experienced team of over 3,000 people supports more than 1,700 multi-national corporations worldwide.

Schaeffler: Official Partner
Schaeffler is a global supplier to the industrial and automotive sectors. As a technology partner for the automotive industry, Schaeffler develops and manufactures precision products for everything that moves – in machines, equipment, and vehicles – with its INA, LuK, and FAG product brands. The range comprises components and systems for engines, transmissions and chassis, for optimizing drivetrains based on internal combustion engines, hybrid vehicles and technologies for electric mobility.

ExxonMobil with Mobil 1: Official Partner
The US-American Exxon Mobil Corporation, with its headquarters in Irving, Texas is the world’s largest private oil and gas company. Being one of the largest refiners and marketers of petroleum products, ExxonMobil sets milestones with its products. For example, the company launched the first fully synthetic engine lubricant Mobil SHC over 40 years ago, the predecessor of Mobil 1 since when it has been constantly developed further and tested under hardest conditions in motorsport.

Michelin: Official Partner
Michelin is a global tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The company has 111,200 employees worldwide and runs subsidiaries in more than 170 countries. Tyres are produced in 67 plants in 17 countries on five continents. Michelin owns test and development centres in Europe, the U.S.A. and in Japan and is one of the three largest tyre manufacturers in the world. Alongside tyres, Michelin sells road maps, hotel, travel guides and mobile navigation solutions.

A123 Systems: Official Partner
A123 Systems, LLC is a global leader in providing complete energy storage solutions through advanced battery cells and systems for transportation and commercial applications. A123 products offer high power, excellent safety and outstanding life.

Veltins: Official Partner
The brewery C. & A. Veltins is one of the most modern privately owned breweries in Europe and was found in 1824. The headquarters are in the German town of Meschede-Grevenstein. To date the Veltins premium beer is brewed only from the best ingredients – malt, hops, yeast and purest spring water – strictly following the German purity law from 1516.

Adidas: Official Partner
Adidas AG is a German multinational corporation that designs and manufactures sports shoes, clothing and accessories. The company is based in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. Besides sports footwear, Adidas also produces other products such as bags, shirts, watches, eyewear and other sports and clothing-related goods.

Walter Knoll: Official Supplier
Walter Knoll is known as the furniture brand of the modern age. Founded in 1865 with a “leather shop” in Stuttgart, Germany, the company continues to make its mark in the history of furniture: it has created classic pieces and icons of the avant-garde and is a by-word throughout the world for modern design. Since the end of the last century, the company has grown considerably and today is one of the leading manufacturers in the international lifestyle and luxury furnishings segment.

Alpinestars: Official Supplier
Founded in 1963 by Sante Mazzarolo in Asolo, Italy, the company started out making hiking and ski boots, but quickly shifted its focus to making boots for motocross racing as well as road racing boots shortly after that. Alpinestars has grown into a world-leading manufacturer of professional racing products, high-performance apparel, technical footwear and sportswear.

Scania: Official Supplier
Scania is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. Service-related products account for a growing proportion of the company’s operations, assuring Scania customers of cost-effective transport solutions and maximum uptime. Scania also offers financial services. Employing some 41,000 people, the company, belonging to the Volkswagen Group, operates in about 100 countries.

Hazet: Official Supplier
The Hazet-Werk Hermann Zerver GmbH & Co. KG, based in Remscheid, Germany, is one of the leading manufacturers of quality hand tools, tool trolleys and workshop equipment for professional use. The product range comprises more than 5,500 different tools from pullers to pliers as well as a wide range of special tools.

Red Bull Energy Drink: Official Supplier
Inspired by functional drinks from the Far East, Dietrich Mateschitz founded Red Bull in the mid 1980's. In 1987, on April 1, Red Bull Energy Drink was sold for the very first time in its home market Austria. Today Red Bull is available in more than 167 countries and around 50 billion cans of Red Bull have been consumed so far.

Uvex: Official Supplier
With over 2,200 employees throughout the world, the Uvex group offers innovative, high-quality protection products for sports, leisure and in the workplace. The headquarters of the globally active group of companies, which comprises 47 subsidiaries in 20 countries, is in Fürth, Germany. Uvex Winter Holding GmbH & Co. KG brings together three globally active companies under one roof: Uvex safety, Uvex sports, Alpina and Filtral.

Hauser Catering: Official Catering Partner
The Hamburg based company Hauser Catering takes care of the Porsche Teams, its guests and the journalists on site at the race tracks. A strong belief in quality is the motto of Karlheinz Hauser’s team, which consists of 95 employees in total. The repertoire includes traditional dishes as well as fine dining.

Darboven: Official Hospitality Supplier
Founded in 1866 by Johann Joachim Darboven, the specialty hot beverage firm J.J.Darboven has continued as a successful family company steeped in tradition and based on the longstanding genteel customs of its Hamburg roots.



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