Overall winners will receive $1,000 prize
Beijing, China, July 25, 2005 - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today launched its 2005 international photo competition for photographers around the world to highlight the primary benefits of the company’s business activities.
Photographers are invited to exercise their imagination and talents to portray one or more of ABB three main business themes, focusing on how the company’s vast array of products, systems, solutions and services:
- Improve the reliability of power grids
- Raise industrial productivity
- Increase energy efficiency
In turn, ABB helps supply electricity to homes and offices, schools and hospitals, factories and showrooms; raises efficiency and productivity of utility, manufacturing and industrial customers at their installations and factories; and helps save energy while lowering environmental impact in the communities where ABB operates.
Every day, ABB manufactures and ships hundreds of thousands of products, from tiny low-voltage switches and drives to huge transformers weighing more than 1,000 tons.
"The last international photo competition we launched, in 2004, had a tremendous response from around the world," said Isabelle Liu, vice president and head of corporate communications for ABB in China. "Many of the pictures were used in a commercial book of photography and the proceeds were used to support financially-strapped engineering students in China."
Earlier this year, ABB donated around $100,000 to students through the China Poverty Alleviation Fund.
This year’s competition has three categories: Power grid reliability, Increased industrial productivity and Energy savings. Winning entries in each category will receive $500 and the overall winners in each category will receive $1,000. Photographers’ work will be fully credited.
Entries are encouraged from the public and ABB employees, except those organizing the competition. Participants are allowed one entry each, and can submit up to three images. Entrants must be 18 years or over as of April 1, 2005.
The winning photographs will be used to communicate and promote ABB’s key business themes in printed materials, on ABB Web sites, and in the group’s media library. ABB will have unrestricted use of the images.
All entries must be received by Wednesday October 12, 2005. Winning entries will be announced during October 2005, and results will be published on the competition Web site.
ABB has run similar competitions in 1999, 2000 and 2004. Photographers were invited to interpret themes such as, "Life around ABB," and "What is Knowledge?" and "ABB’s Business Principles." The competition in 2004 took in a large number of participants from China. Sixteen Chinese photographers were picked as winners and two of them were overall winners.
For further details about ABB’s 2005 photo competition, please visit
www.abb.com/photocompetition
ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impacts. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 102,000 people worldwide. ABB has a full range of business activities in China, including manufacturing, R&D, sales and service, with 8,000 employees, 23 joint ventures and wholly owned companies, and an extensive sales and service network across 30 cities. To know more about ABB, visit www.abb.com.cn.