Press Release

Yamaha U.S.A. Employees Raise $3,500 for Fourth Annual Feed the Children Charity Day






Cypress,
CA (
11/12/10)
Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. is proud to announce that today
employees presented world-renowned charity Feed the Children with a
check for $3,500 with support from the Star Touring and Riding
Association. This is the fourth consecutive year Yamaha employees
have celebrated Feed the Children Charity day with the Star Touring
and Riding Association at Yamaha’s Corporate headquarters.



Yamaha
has worked with Feed the Children for over 10 years, raising several
hundred thousand dollars and feeding tens of thousands of children.
Feed the Children is an international and nonprofit relief
organization that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other
necessities to individuals, children and families who lack those
essentials.



Yamaha
employees at the Cypress headquarters raised the $3,500 during the
year through office-wide fundraisers and filled a Feed the Children
food truck with 400 boxes of food, juice, chips and personal items.
After the check presentation ceremony by Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A.
President Masato Adachi, over 100 members of the Star Motorcycles
Touring and Riding Association were led by Police escort to deliver
the goods via motorcycle. Working with the Community Action
Partnership of Garden Grove and Calvary Chapel West Grove, the items
were distributed to 400 local families in need.



"Even
in these challenging economic times, our employees and Star Touring
and Riding continue to support our Feed the Children Charity event,"
said Bob Starr, General Manager of Corporate Communications for
Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A. "We are proud our employees and STAR
continue this tradition of assisting those in need and we are
certainly happy to host this event.”




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