Slovakia and Mexico are world champions

Hanover, Germany (ots) -

- Spirited finals in Continental AG's in-house world football
championship tournament

- Biggest sports event in the history of the company a huge
success

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™ 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™, 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™," 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™ 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.

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Hannes Boekhoff
Head of Press
Continental AG
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D-30165 Hanover
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