Dublin City Council and JCDecaux Ireland today announced that Coca-Cola Zero will become the commercial partner of dublinbikes in a three-year agreement.
The Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes were unveiled at the announcement at Hanover Quay dublinbikes station at 11am today and will be available to the scheme’s members from the end of June.
Pictured at today's announcement were (L to R); Alan Kelly, The Minister of State at The Department of Transport; Frank O’Donnell, General Manager, Coca-Cola HBC Ireland; Joanne Grant, Managing Director of JCDecaux Ireland; Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council and Jon Woods, General Manager, Coca-Cola Great Britain & Ireland.
Dublin’s Lord Mayor said, “Dublin city has had a world class public bike hire scheme since 2009. The scheme has exceeded all expectations and over 7 million journeys have been taken so far. Dublin City Council always envisaged that commercial partnership would play an important part in funding the scheme’s expansion and in Coca-Cola Ireland, dublinbikes has found a fitting partner.”
According to Minister for Public and Commuter Transport Alan Kelly TD, "Dublin is swiftly becoming a cycling city and the dublinbikes scheme has been one of the biggest drivers in making this possible. Cycling has increased 40% in Dublin city since the scheme started - those numbers speak for themselves. The fact that dublinbikes will now partner with one of the world's best marketing companies, Coca-Cola, shows the upward trajectory that cycling is going to go on. The partnership between Dublin City Council, JCDecaux and Coca-Cola Ireland will no doubt serve the people of Dublin long into the future."
Joanne Grant, Managing Director JCDecaux Ireland said, “We are very pleased to have Coca-Cola Zero on board. The Coca-Cola Company has a long track record in helping to promote and encourage activity in everyday life. We look forward to working with their world renowned marketing and communications skills to help grow and broaden the appeal of dublinbikes. Our scheme is already a huge success and JCDecaux looks forward to taking it to the next level. The combination of street furniture advertising and commercial partnership revenues enables us to operate such a successful scheme providing significant enhancement to the public transport system in Dublin”.
Jon Woods, General Manager, Coca-Cola Great Britain & Ireland said “We are delighted to be partnering with such a successful scheme as dublinbikes enabling dublinbikes to expand and making it possible for more Dubliners to enjoy a bike ride. This partnership builds on our support for the roll out of the regional bike schemes in Galway, Limerick and Cork to make cycling accessible to thousands of people across the country and help more people be more active.”
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The three-year commercial partnership deal, worth almost €2m, will see the scheme rebranded as Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes. Coca-Cola Zero branding will be on dublinbikes from the end of June 2014.
Further information on Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes can be found here www.dublinbikes.ie