UniCredit broadens its social commitment to the UEFA Champions League sponsorship
This year’s UEFA Champions League Final online campaign “Make a kid smile” and
internal initiatives become active tools for UniCredit’s responsible engagement in football sponsorship.
For every supporter of “Make a kid smile” UniCredit Foundation will donate 10 Euros for a social inclusion project that promotes fairness, team spirit and mutual respect among children, leveraging on football schools.
UniCredit gives its UEFA Champions League sponsorship a social meaning by dedicating this year’s Final-related initiatives to a good cause. “Make a kid smile” and an internal pendant encourage employees and the wider public to support UniCredit and the UniCredit Foundation in taking care about local communities. The initiatives will offer help where help is needed in the countries where the Group is present.
“Football is a game of great emotions, also full of ups and downs, just like real life. With a set of external and internal activities flanking the Final 2011, UniCredit underlines its commitment towards the football community that goes beyond the sponsorship of the UEFA Champions League and reaches social inclusion projects, with the aim to deliver a concrete benefit to local communities and to those in need”, says Maurizio Beretta, Head of Identity and Communications at UniCredit.
Make a kid smile
Under the motto “Make a kid smile” UniCredit calls on everyone to join the Group in bringing the unifying spirit of football to kids. For every supporter who will send a smiling picture to a dedicated website, UniCredit Foundation, the corporate philanthropy body of UniCredit, will contribute 10 Euros – up to a maximum amount of 200.000 EUR – to the “Open Fun Football Schools”, a project that promotes the values of fairness, team spirit and mutual respect among children living in divided societies. The “Open Fun Football Schools” is a humanitarian initiative led by an international charity that targets boys and girls from 7 to 12 years old using joyful games and the pedagogical "Fun Football concept" as tools to stimulate peaceful co-existence, gender equality, tolerance and social cohesion in countries and communities affected by war and ethnic conflicts.
The campaign can be actively supported until 29 May, 2011, by uploading a smiling picture on www.make-a-kid-smile.eu. The “KIDSMILE-ME”-App converts the picture in a smiling face and after registration becomes part of a gallery, called the KidSmile Arena. As the official UniCredit Ambassador for the UEFA Champions League sponsorship and generous fundraiser, Luis Figo will strongly endorse the campaign with a video and by providing himself a picture with a smile.
According to Maurizio Carrara, Chairman of UniCredit Foundation, “this initiative demonstrates how sport and social commitment can go together. We hope that many fans, through uploading their picture, will make us donate significantly for this valuable and far reaching project”.
Additionally, until 4 May, 2011, in some selected countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia) fans can win premium tickets for the Final match in London. And for those who will register online at an early stage to support the “Make a kid smile” campaign, there will also be the chance to get the original confetti of the UEFA Champions League Final Wembley 2011 that traditionally rain down on the champions during the trophy hand-over ceremony.
Accompanying the UEFA Champions League sponsorship and the upcoming UEFA Champions League Final Wembley 2011, additional internal activities foster social responsibility and commitment to local markets. They encourage employees to actively support the social commitment of the Group through the work of UniCredit Foundation.
About UniCredit
UniCredit is a major international financial institution with strong roots in 22 European countries and an overall international network present in approximately 50 markets, over 9,600 branches and 162,000 employees as of 31 Dicember 2010.
In the CEE region, UniCredit operates the largest international banking network with nearly 3,900 branches.
The Group operates in the following countries: Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.
About UniCredit Foundation
UniCredit Foundation is a corporate foundation established in 2003 to contribute to the development of solidarity and philanthropy in the communities and territories in which it operates, primarily in the geographic areas in which UniCredit is present (in 22 countries throughout Europe and Central Asia). By transferring financial resources and management skills commonly used in the corporate sphere, UniCredit Foundation is supporting major projects in order to foster positive social impact and innovation, which are carried out by local non-profit organizations.
Ivan Vlaho – new Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit Bank Banja Luka
Ivan Vlaho is new Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of UniCredit Bank Banja Luka.
Mister Vlaho has a ten year rich work experience in banking. At the position of the Board member, in charge of Retail in UniCredit Bank from 2007. During his mandate retail achieved a significant market share growth, and significant improvement of client satisfaction in UniCredit Bank.
Ivan Vlaho was born in Mostar on 1973. He graduated at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, father of three sons.
Term of office was renewed for the Management Board members Mr. Siniša Adžić, Executive Manager for Corporate banking and Mr. Saša Vrhovac, Executive Manager for Finance Management.
UniCredit Bank Banja Luka
UniCredit Bank Banja Luka founded in 1911 with head office in Banja Luka. It is the bank with the longest business tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In a history over 90 years this Bank underwent various transformations and operated successfully in different legal and organizational forms within a number of banks and banking systems.
Recognizable by its character, long tradition and image obtained in public and among clients, UniCredit Bank Banja Luka maintains old and builds new relations and relations by the principle new Bank – old friends. With clearly set goals, engagement of proficient and professional management team, dynamically set organization of operations and market orientation, the Bank has achieved a significant results in a very short time period and it is imposing itself more and more as a serious candidate for one of the leaders in the banking sectors and bearer of development of economy as a whole.
UniCredit is the fourth biggest bank in Europe. Together with HVB Group and UniCredit Bank Austria AG, first real European bank has started operating.
About UniCredit Group
UniCredit Group is the biggest international financial institution with strong roots in 22 European countries and representative offices in other 27 markets, with approximately 9.800 branches, over 165.000 employees according to the data as of 31.12.2009.
Group is the market leader in CEE region, where it is one of the biggest banking players operating through the biggest network of over 4,000 branches.
Group operates in the following CEE countries: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.
COOPERATION BETWEEN UNICREDIT BANK BANJA LUKA AND GOVERNMEN OF REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
Representatives of UniCredit Bank Banja Luka and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Srpska have signed a contract on regulation of mutual relations in respect to subsidizing interest rates on loans for procurement of certain durable consumer goods in this year, where the subsidized portion of the interest rate is 5% on annual level.
Having signed the abovementioned contract, the clients of UniCredit Bank Banja Luka will be able to obtain financial resources for purchase of vehicle make FIAT PUNTO and tractor make IMT and IMR at very favourable conditions and interest rate of 3.7%.
UniCredit starts a three year sponsorship of the UEFA Champions League
Starting from today, UniCredit becomes an official sponsor of the UEFA Champions League for the next three seasons (2009-2012), initiating an exciting journey to position its brand at the top - in Europe and the world - in terms of visibility and awareness.
The UEFA Champions League is the most popular international football competition at club level and is followed with passion by one out of two European citizens.
As the sole banking sponsor of the UEFA Champions League, UniCredit will enhance, thanks to the partnership, its visibility as a European banking group, with a strong franchise and deep local roots in 22 countries.
“UniCredit’s sponsorship of the UEFA Champions League represents a major step in developing our brand all across Europe”, said Paolo Fiorentino, Deputy CEO of UniCredit. “The Group has already a good track record in sponsoring major sporting events, but the UEFA Champions League, with its global impact, provides us with a premium platform for a sustainable and long term growth of our brand awareness”.
"I am delighted that UniCredit is becoming an official partner of the UEFA Champions League for 2009 to 2012," said UEFA general secretary David Taylor. "UniCredit is a leading bank in Europe and their presence and strength in Europe, particularly in Eastern Europe, will help further establish the UEFA Champions League brand in these markets. We are confident that the UEFA Champions League, as a premier sporting event, will assist UniCredit in building and enhancing their brand awareness and identity."
Moreover, through the UEFA Champions League sponsorship, UniCredit will develop, in partnership with local communities in the countries where it is present, a series of social initiatives that will strengthen the sense of belonging of all its employees.
The program will focus, as a start, on two initiatives: a launch campaign in most of the countries where the Group has core activities, and the UEFA Champions League Trophy Tour presented by UniCredit, that will enable football fans and citizens alike to get close to the Trophy and to participate in big events.
Starting in Milan from 16th to 20th September 2009, the UEFA Champions League Trophy Tour will visit: Zagreb (Croatia) on September 25th-26th, Bucharest (Romania) on October 3rd-4th, Budapest (Hungary) on October 10th-11th and Sofia (Bulgaria) on October 17th-18th. A second group of countries will be visited in 2010 and a third one in 2011.
Capital increase has been completed
With the subscription of the newly issued ordinary shares, the EUR 3bn capital increase – approved by the Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of UniCredit S.p.A. on 14 November 2008 – has been completed.
The capital increase announced in October 2008 and approved by the Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of UniCredit S.p.A. on 14 November 2008 was completed on February 23rd. The full amount of the operation has been subscribed by institutional investors and core shareholders, thus confirming our shareholders’ confidence in UniCredit strategy and in the Group’s future.
These measures allowed us to increase our capital adequacy ratios thus helping our Group to continue to pursue the mission towards our main stakeholders.
We will continue to play our fundamental role for the economic development of the territories we operate in. The strengthening of our capital base allows us to further sustain our initiatives aimed at supporting families and at financing enterprises. We will be able to maintain our commitment to the economic development of local communities.
As the banking industry lies at the heart of the socio-economic life of contemporary society the trust of our shareholders will let us persist in our path of building a sustainable banking business.
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New website
UniCredit Bank Banja Luka has created a new web site with a goal to offer all necessary information about products and services of the Bank to existing and potential clients.
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Yours, UniCredit Bank Banja Luka