Shanduka-Aggreko National Supporter of the 2010 FIFA World
Cuptm
1 March 2010
Aggreko plc is pleased to announce that, along
with its joint venture partner Shanduka Group, it has signed a
contract to provide temporary power and temperature control for broadcast and
technical services for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in
South
Africa.
The contract involves providing broadcasting power in all 10
World Cup Stadium Venues, the International Broadcast Centre (IBC)
and FIFA headquarters, as well as temperature control at the IBC.
This will support the broadcasting of the 64 matches of the
competition to over 3 billion people world-wide. The estimated
value of the contract is £30 million, and will involve the
installation of some 300 kilometres of cable and 30 megawatts of
generating capacity.
Shanduka Group is a leading African investment holding company,
and has formed an unincorporated joint-venture with Aggreko to
execute the World Cup contract. Both companies worked together to
supply temporary power to the FIFA 2009 Confederations Cup in South
Africa.
Aggreko has customers in 20 countries
in Africa and is providing over 1,000 megawatts of temporary power
on the continent.
Rupert Soames, Chief Executive of Aggreko, said: “Having
recently supplied temporarypower to both the Vancouver Winter
Olympics and last year’s Confederations Cup in South Africa,
we are delighted to have been selected by the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Organising Committee to secure their broadcast power. This
underscores our position as the leading supplier of power and
temperature control to major sporting events worldwide.”
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Editor’s Notes
Aggreko plc is the world leader in the
supply of temporary
power and temperature control solutions. We employ over
4,000 people operating from over 133 locations. In 2008 we served
customers in over 100 countries, and had revenues of approximately
£950m (US$1.6bn or Euros €1.1bn). Aggreko plc is listed on the
London Stock Exchange (AGK.L), is a member of the FTSE-100
index, and is headquartered in Scotland. For more information,
please visit the company website at www.aggreko.com.
Aggreko provides power and temperature
control solutions to customers who need them either very quickly,
or for a short time. Examples would be the supply of power to an
industrial site which needs to service its permanent power supply;
supplying a whole city in times of power shortage; or providing a
major sporting event with power and cooling systems. We serve our
customers either through 120 service centres, which we call the
Local Business, or globally through our International Power
Projects business.
In the Local business, which accounts
for about 60% of our revenues, we hire our equipment to customers,
who then operate it for themselves, although we retain
responsibility for servicing and maintaining it. In the
International Power Projects business, which accounts for about 40%
of revenues, we operate as a power producer.
We install and operate power plants
and we charge our customers both for providing the generating
capacity, and for the electricity we produce. We design and
manufacture equipment specifically for these requirements in our
factory in Dumbarton, Scotland.
Recent customers include the Beijing 2008
Olympics, the Vancouver 2010
Olympics and the power utilities in over 50 countries including
the UK,
France,
Angola, Kenya, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil and
the USA.