- Title: New Waterford Crystals installed on Times Square New Year's Eve ball
- Date: 27th December 2019
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 27, 2019) (REUTERS) TIMES SQUARE CRYSTAL BALL WITH MISSING PANEL WORKERS HOLDING NEW CRYSTAL PANEL VARIOUS OF WORKERS INSTALLING NEW CRYSTAL PANEL NEW PANELS AND CRYSTAL BALL COUNTDOWN ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT JEFFREY STRAUS TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) COUNTDOWN ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT JEFFREY STRAUS, SAYING: "Today, we're kicking off the countdown to the countdown. We installed the Gift of Goodwill crystal triangles on the Waterford ball." FISKARS LIVING MASTER ARTISAN TOM BRENNAN HOLDING NEW CRYSTAL TRIANGLE BRENNAN TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) FISKARS LIVING MASTER ARTISAN TOM BRENNAN, SAYING: "This is really a wonderful day for Waterford Crystal. So each year at Waterford Crystal we celebrate a new theme and a brand new design. This year's theme and this year's brand new design is the Gift of Goodwill. Goodwill and hospitality is very synonymous with the pineapple going back to colonial times. So it is celebrating hospitality for centuries and that's what it's all about today. And I've said to so many people this morning that it is all about goodwill, it's all about benevolence, it's all about generosity. It's about finding the good in every single situation and then bringing that forward." CRYSTAL BALL (SOUNDBITE) (English) FISKARS LIVING MASTER ARTISAN TOM BRENNAN, SAYING: "Waterford Crystal is synonymous with success, synonymous with celebration, with gift giving, with achievement. I mean, this is the greatest party in the world right now. We're going to have this in a couple of days time. Waterford Crystal is holding court. We are center stage with one point two billion people watching and everybody's invited in." VARIOUS OF CRYSTAL BALL (SOUNDBITE) (English) COUNTDOWN ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT JEFFREY STRAUS, SAYING: "The Times Square New Year's Eve ball is the largest crystal ball in the world. It's cladded in over 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles. This year, the new design is the Gift of Goodwill, which represents really kindness and civility. I can't think of a better way to ring in 2020. That ball that we'll all watch is over 12 feet in diameter. It has over 32,000 LEDs and it weighs nearly six tons." WORKER HOLDING NEW CRYSTAL TRIANGLE CRYSTAL BALL (SOUNDBITE) (English) COUNTDOWN ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT JEFFREY STRAUS, SAYING: "The energy that I feel out there in the square is amazing. And when you think about the fact that the million people in Times Square are joined by over 180 million Americans who are going to be counting down in unison, filled with hope and joy for the future and goodwill, and they're joined again by over a billion people from all across the globe who will see us doing this, kissing and celebrating and hugging each other. That's an amazing moment. And I hope the rest of 2020 just continues along that line." THE 2020 SIGN ON ONE TIMES SQUARE ONE TIMES SQUARE
- Embargoed: 10th January 2020 18:00
- Keywords: Jeffrey Straus New Year's Eve New York City Times Square Tom Brennan Waterford crystal ball drop crystal ball
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Human Interest / Brights / Odd News,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA001BBR3IOP
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- Story Text: Newly-designed Waterford Crystal triangles were installed on the giant Times Square New Year's Eve crystal ball on Friday (December 27).
Every year, Waterford Crystal, owned by Fiskars Group, designs and creates a series of new crystal triangles for the ball. This year's design features three pineapples to represent the 'Gift of Goodwill'.
"Goodwill and hospitality is very synonymous with the pineapple going back to colonial times. So it is celebrated hospitality for centuries and that's what it's all about today," said Fiskars Living Master Artisan Tom Brennan. "It is all about goodwill, it's all about benevolence, it's all about generosity. It's about finding the good in every single situation and then bringing that forward."
192 of the newly designed triangles will be installed onto the famous crystal ball.
"The Times Square New Year's Eve ball is the largest crystal ball in the world. It's cladded in over 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles," said Countdown Entertainment President Jeffrey Straus. "That ball that we'll all watch is over 12 feet in diameter. It has over 32,000 LEDs and it weighs nearly six tons."
More than one million people are expected to crowd Times Square in New York City on New Year's Eve to watch the crystal ball countdown to the new year.
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