Bolton Wanderers are delighted to announce a new ''Bolton Wanderers are delighted to announce a new commercial partnership with Hanwha Group, a global conglomerate with dedicated emphasis on solar energy technology.

The year-long enterprise will see Hanwha become one of the club's major sponsors throughout the 2011/12 season.

Speaking about the new agreement, Chairman Phil Gartside said: "The addition of Hanwha Group to our growing partnership portfolio is an exciting new development.

"We look forward to developing a mutually beneficial long-term relationship with Hanwha, whose strong environment credentials and philosophies are closely matched with our own."

Hanwha are considered as a market leader in the solar energy industry, with the company attracted to the partnership due to the club's position as a successful and established member of the Barclays Premier League.

Sung Soo Lee, CSO of the business division of the company, said: "Hanwha Group are proud to support Bolton Wanderers, one of the most respected Premier League football clubs.

"We see this partnership as a way to underscore our dedication to energy and to the UK, both on-and-off the football field."

As a result of the venture, Hanwha's brand will feature prominently around the Reebok Stadium, including on the LED boards around the perimeter of the pitch on a matchday.''

They focus on helping the environment though and i think thats what the main part of focus should be. Although landmines are largely banned across the world, If its not banned in a country then there will be demand for them, especially in countries like Korea.

I don't really see the big deal. They make landmines, our Government makes bombs. They're both designed to kill people. It's how landmines are used, after sold, that makes them such a problem. But they are useful equipment, when used properly.

I dont sit comfortable with it either finlay.

In this country we develop guided missles to avoid civilian casualties, although admittedly, it doesn't always work to plan.

BAE & Marconi are the main companies involved here, but they dont sponsor P'ship teams or anyone else for that matter.

But in the poorer regions of Africa, Middle & Far East where conflict exists and the mines are used extensively, no one goes back to pick up the unused ones.

Poor decision & could come back to bite us through bad publicity.

It's a serious post and I always like to end on a litenote.

Why dont we get some freebies off them & place them in strategic positions in the Reebok pitch when we play Citeh, ManU & Chelsea?

Not my choice but in reality we are a business and they do more than make munitions. If we promote ourselves like the an ethical bank / business it would be different.
Nobody would say they like landmines and cluster bombs.
What if some neighbours had a bout of Sam'N'Ella ! killed a few old folk. The evils of betting, alcohol addition. Kids watching too much TV and turning violent from it.
Where do you draw the line with sponsors, we don't proclaim to be whiter than white nor following an ethics policy like some companies. I'm sure we will be promoting other divisions of the business.
Like I said business is business can we walk away from any sponsorship in this day of moneybags PL.
Hopefully the other parts of the company involved will be those we can gain from, solar energy and maybe we become a first by using some leading edge technology rather than always being mentioned as those linked with munitions.

I take your comments and almost agree with some of your points and I certainly aint taking the moral highground here.

Even Reebok, before they were "absorbed" by Adidas, were on Panorama for moving jobs and outsourcing manufacture to the China sweatshops where child labour doing 14 hour days was and probably still is common.

Like you say with all the P'league riches, why do clubs entertain companies of dubious decent as it will only stop the ethical ones from being associated with it.

The reason is:

Debt & greed.

I don't see the big deal, yes they have made them but theres no evidence that they have been used in conflicts in Africa and the Middle east.

More likely they are used to protect South Koreas border with North Korea which no innocent civilians are going to be walking by casually...

They sponsor Everton too, so it's not just us....

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RB, the problem isn't with landmines themselves. It is with the customers use of them. It's business, at the end of the day. They make a large amount of other, more beneficial products.

Supply & demand of course Campo, but as, as a country, they haven't agreed to the non use treaty, it smells of protectionism to me.

They will be making nuclear weapons next as they also haven't sign the nuclear weapon proliferation treaty.

I aint a pacifist by the way if conflict is to protect or homeland or genocide elsewhere.

Bricks, what's next to South Korea? one of the worlds biggest armies and a leader who hates South Korea and has launched military attacks on their country.

If it turns out that they have been sold to warlords in Africa then its bad but there's no evidence for this!!

Most of it is sabre rattling Moses, like they are trapped in the cold war.

How many landmines do you need to cover a 2 km wide "no mans land?"

Most of it is sabre rattling Moses, like they are trapped in the cold war.

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Blowing up a jet isn't sabre rattling, neither is blowing up a ship....

They are full blown terrorist acts, we have started wars because of acts like these,

from themoniter.org;

South Korea said in October 2009 that it “is exercising tight control over anti-personnel landmines and enforcing a moratorium on their export for an indefinite extension of time.

i.e. the company can't export them.

That to me Moses sounds like they did export them prior to 2009.

There are probably 100's of thousands of them need digging out of the ground around the world.

Korea banned exports in 1997, the same year as the international ban

Personally I don't think we should associate ourselves with companies that have manufactured products which are meant to hurt/kill people, regardless of the reasons countries need them for