Rabobank
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Rabobank is a Dutch bank with offices all over the world, although primarily in the Netherlands.
Rooted in agriculture, Rabobank is set up as a federation of local credit unions, which offer services to the local markets, and the central organisation is in fact the daughter (rather than the mother) of these local banks.
The name Rabobank is an abbreviation of "Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank", where "Boerenleenbank" means "Farmers' lending bank". "Raiffeisen" is a reference to Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, the founder of the co-operative movement of credit unions.
The Rabobank is one of the most well organized banks in the world, which is awarded with a Triple A (AAA+) status, they are the only non-private bank in the world who has such status.
Rabobank cycling
Rabobank sponsors a top road cycling team of the same name, which is part of the UCI ProTour.
2005 ProTour team roster
- Michael Boogerd
- Jan Boven
- Erik Breukink, team manager
- Bram De Groot
- Steven De Jongh
- Erik Dekker
- Thomas Dekker
- Maarten Den Bakker
- Theo Eltink
- Oscar Freire Gomez
- Mathew Hayman
- Pedro Horrillo Munoz
- Alexandr Kolobnev
- Karsten Kroon
- Gerben Löwik
- Denis Menchov
- Ronald Mutsaars
- Grischa Niermann
- Joost Posthuma
- Michael Rasmussen
- Niels Scheuneman
- Roy Sentjens
- Rory Sutherland
- Jukka Bastaranta
- Thorwald Veneberg
- Marc Wauters
- Pieter Weening
- Remmert Wielinga
External link
- Rabobank website (http://www.rabobank.nl/)
- Rabobank cycling team (http://www.rabobank.nl/info/execute/node?node_id=149850)fy:Rabobank