He helped organize last year's Shanghai Biennale, making his company one of the biggest sponsors.
Ten years before Dave Schultz's murder, du Pont had decided to establish himself as the biggest sponsor of American wrestling.
Propelled by the drugstore chains CVS and Walgreens, by far the biggest sponsors of the clinics to date, more than 700 clinics have opened in the last 15 months.
Calling Iran the "biggest sponsor of terrorism around the world," he promised, "We will work to dismantle that reach believe me, believe me".
With the Olympics often criticized for commercialization, London's flamboyant mayor, Boris Johnson, made a show of defending one of the biggest sponsors of the Games, McDonald's – although that doesn't seem to extend to eating much of its food.
The council, which is known as Cetusa, has been one of the biggest sponsors in the summer program and was responsible for placing about 400 foreign students last summer in a Pennsylvania plant packing Hershey's chocolates.
Meanwhile, the biggest sponsor of television advertising in House races over the last month was Americans for Prosperity, which spent about $1.5 million, singling out races in which Republican candidates are at a fund-raising disadvantage.
The biggest sponsors did even better: the top 16, which spent on average $160m a year on sponsorship, saw net income grow by 22.1% annually.The authors do not claim that sponsorship makes businesses more profitable.
The 2009 event began with a rooftop party at the new W Hotel, with the names of the biggest sponsors, the pharmaceutical companies Amgen and Eli Lilly, beamed in giant letters onto the walls, next to the logo of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
