San Francisco Giants and Cruise Announce Enhanced Partnership
Cruise will become the Giants official jersey patch partner and collaborate with the Giants to make Oracle Park a hub for electrified transportation.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA ¨C The San Francisco Giants and Cruise - the leading driverless ridehail service - today announce an enhanced partnership to further serve local residents and businesses, accelerate the electrified transportation system and improve road safety and environmental sustainability throughout San Francisco. This partnership will remain exclusive through 2025.
Cruise will become the Giants official jersey patch partner. The patch pays homage to the iconic Oracle Park archways, a notably distinctive architectural element, located in the right field wall along the Portwalk on the shores of McCovey Cove. The colorway combines the Giants and Cruise brand colors to form a backdrop inspired by the memorable ballpark sunsets. The patch will be featured on Giants uniforms over the coming weeks starting with the home (cream) jersey today, August 3. The Giants were supported by WME Sports in the development of this partnership.
In addition to traditional marketing assets, hundreds of electric vehicle chargers will be installed to support ballpark parking facilities - establishing Oracle Park as a leader in the city¡¯s EV charging infrastructure. With access to around-the-clock charging equipment, a fully charged Cruise fleet will provide the public, including Giants fans and Oracle Park event go-ers, with a safe and eco-friendly transportation option. Today, Cruise fleets have traveled more than three million driverless miles - a distance equivalent to 120 laps around the Earth - to serve the city of San Francisco and provide greater accessibility to iconic, local attractions like Oracle Park.
¡°Our partnership with Cruise is a natural evolution as we increasingly see Giants fans and local Bay Area residents looking for safer, more sustainable ways to get to and from Oracle Park and all around our city,¡± said Larry Baer, President and CEO of the San Francisco Giants. ¡°We are thrilled to deepen our relationship with Cruise as they expand to serve more of our fans across the Bay Area.¡±
¡°Cruise is dedicated to providing safe, reliable, accessible transportation to our hometown community of San Francisco,¡± said Jeff Miller, VP of Marketing at Cruise. ¡°Our expanded partnership with the Giants demonstrates that commitment as we¡¯ll develop hundreds of public electric vehicle chargers in the area. For our partner patch, we have collaborated closely with the Giants to create a patch that pays respect to the team, the Bay and the great game of baseball.¡±
This partnership also extends to gameday activations to continue cultivating ¡°nothing like it¡± experiences at Oracle Park. On select home gamedays in Willie Mays Plaza and the Giants supporter section located in center field, The 415, fans can sign up to take a driverless ride and learn more about Cruise¡¯s efforts in providing trusted mobility solutions, offering more sustainable travel options and redefining accessible design.
For more information about the San Francisco Giants exclusive partnership with Cruise, visit getcruise.com/sfgiants. Watch Joc and Champ Pederson and Alyssa Nakken and Amy G. take driverless rides with Cruise. Follow along with @SFGiants on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and @Cruise on Instagram, YouTube and Facebook.
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About San Francisco Giants
One of the oldest teams in Major League Baseball, the 139-year old franchise moved to San Francisco from New York in 1958. After playing a total of 42 years in Seals Stadium and Candlestick Park, the team moved to the privately constructed, downtown ballpark on the corner of 3rd and King in 2000. The organization is widely recognized for its innovative business practices and baseball excellence having been named in the past decade the Sports Organization of the Year by Street & Smith¡¯s Sports Business Journal, Organization of the Year by Baseball America and ESPN¡¯s Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year. Oracle Park is also the only ballpark in the country to have earned Silver, Gold and Platinum LEED certification for an existing building. _
Since opening its gates, Oracle Park has become internationally-renowned as a premier venue in the world of both sports and entertainment. On the diamond, more than 64 million spectators have witnessed countless magical moments, including three World Series Championships (2010, 2012 & 2014), the raising of four National League Pennants and eight playoff appearances. The ballpark has also hosted some of music¡¯s biggest acts, including Dead & Company, Lady Gaga, Beyonc¨¦ & Jay Z, Ed Sheeran, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Green Day and Billy Joel.
About WME
WME is a leading entertainment agency representing the world¡¯s greatest artists, content creators and talent across books, digital media, film, food, music, sports, television and theater. Named one of Fast Company¡¯s Most Innovative Companies, WME is a subsidiary of Endeavor, a global entertainment, sports and content company.