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Tire Rack Upgrades Consumer Site
March 11, 2010
The Tire Rack has made a major enhancement to its TireRack.com consumer tire and wheel sales Web site.
The enhancement is “designed to make the tire buying experience even faster, easier and more efficient,” Tire Rack said, by allowing easier access to TireRack.com’s three consumer tire research pages: Surveys, Reviews and Tests. Users can now see all three areas at the same...
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Tire Store Franchise Looking to Texas
March 10, 2010
Conroe, Texas-based Tiremax Corp. said it is now selling retail tire store franchises to interested parties in that state.
The franchisor claims it "offers a unique approach to the retail tire industry" by providing "impeccably clean, well-merchandised showrooms and offers customers the red carpet treatment."
"We are passionate about the Tiremax brand and what it has to...
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TGI Adds to MTR Line-up
March 09, 2010
Miami's Tire Group International has launched a new line of what it terms “premium radial truck tires.”
Produced in Asia, its Cosmo brand covers light truck, industrial, agricultural and OTR tires, in addition to medium truck radials, TGI said.
TGI will be offering four sizes of the Cosmo truck line, including 11R22.5 16 Ply, 11R24.5 16 Ply, 12R22.5 16 Ply and 295/80R22.5 18 Ply...
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Becker Tire Receives Bandag Honor, Exec Recognized by MATDA
March 09, 2010
Great Bend, Kan.-based Becker Tire & Treading Inc. was recently honored by Bridgestone Americas, and one of its own received special recognition during a recent state tire dealer group event.
Becker Tire & Treading was recognized for a 35-year association with Bandag by Bridgestone America’s Bridgestone Bandag unit. On hand to receive the award was Becker president and CEO Gary Albright...
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Thieves Make Off With 800 Car Tires
March 08, 2010
Toledo, Ohio, police are investigating the Jan. 25 theft of a truck trailer filled with passenger tires.
The trailer, stolen from Garner Trucking in Findlay, Ohio, was later recovered, but most of the tires were gone.
The trailer was reported stolen on Jan. 25, and was recovered two days later in a parking lot in Toledo. When it was stolen, the trailer container 960 passenger tires, but only...
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America's Tire Opens 121st Store
March 08, 2010
Discount Tire unit America’s Tire opened its 121st store in California, this one in El Centro.
Located near the Imperial Valley Mall, the new America’s Tire location features no-touch tire mounting/dismounting machines, and automatic inflation equipment. The store employs 10 people.
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City, County Now Probing Memphis Tire Repair Deal
March 08, 2010
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports that city and county officials are investigating a local tire dealer that was hired to handle tire repairs for Memphis city vehicles.
Last month, officials began looking into Around Town Tire & Trucking after the newspaper reported that the Memphis payments to the company had grown from $100,000 in 2005 to more than $1 million last year.
Around Town Tire...
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Associate Dealer Program Blossoms for Tirecraft
March 08, 2010
Tirecraft Canada said its new associate store program has been a huge success, resulting in the addition of nearly 120 locations since it was relaunched in 2008.
“This is the best possible endorsement of our program’s strong value proposition and our new fully engaged, highly energized management team,” Tirecraft president Don Gauthier said. “We are all squarely focused...
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Top Shop Winner Heads DSP's New 20 Group
March 05, 2010
Dealer Strategic Planning has launched a new tire dealer 20 group, one that will be led by Anthony Blackman, owner of 2008 Tire Review Top Shop Award winner Atlantic Tire & Service.
The new group will hold its first meeting Mar. 8-11 in Raleigh, N.C.
“As soon as I heard that a 20 group was available for tire store owners, I joined up,” Blackman said. “While I have a great...
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Explosion, Fire Destroys Iowa Dealership
March 05, 2010
Kalona Tire’s location in Kalona, Iowa, was totally destroyed when an explosion and subsequent fire ripped through the facility on Mar. 2.
Fire officials said the business was a total loss, with little of the company’s equipment salvageable, according to reports. There were no injuries reported.
Four fire departments battled the mid-day blaze, which took four hours to extinguis...
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Haiti Disaster Relief Gets Boost from Dunn Tire
March 04, 2010
Tomorrow, Buffalo’s Dunn Tire will present a check to Hands on Disaster Response, the result of its recent fundraising drive to aid Haitian earthquake disaster victims.
Dunn Tire chairman Randy Clark will present David Campbell, founder and executive director of HODR, with a check in support of the organization’s efforts in Haiti.
The dealer raised funds by donating $5 for every...
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Blackcircles.com Wins Hitwise Award
March 03, 2010
Blackcircles.com's newly updated Web site recently received a Hitwise award for being in the top 10 in the United Kingdom "Shopping and Classifieds - Automotive" category.
Mike Welch, Blackcircles.com's managing director and founder said: “I'm delighted with what the guys have developed. The site is looking great and is a lot easier to get to grips with. This is an important step...
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Commentary: E-Tailers, Autocenters Are On The Up
March 03, 2010
What will the tire retail business look like in five years time? Who knows.
As I have learnt to my peril in this column, prognostication is a dangerous business. Let’s not recall how last year I wrote that new S-marking regulations would be implemented quickly and smoothly “unless there is an unlikely stay of execution.” Of course the inevitable happened and there was indeed...
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Canadian Distributor Celebrates 20 Years
March 01, 2010
Twenty years ago, Peter-James Gregory took a chance and launched his own tire business in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, Ont. For the first few years, Gregory was literally a one-man band, handling every aspect of the business, save for the bookkeeping. He left that for his wife, Deborah, who already had a full-time job.
Today, Atlas Wholesale Tire, now with two warehouses and nearly 70 employees...
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Customers Smell a Rat, Shop Owner Gets Jail Time
February 25, 2010
Customers who were told rats damaged their vehicles weren’t too happy, and now the guy who put them there will pay the price – a long jail term.
Mehran Baranriz, 47, owner of Group Specialists, a car repair shop in Redwood City, Calif., pleaded no contest to 10 counts of insurance fraud and got a four-year prison sentence. His wife, Bita Imani, 35, pleaded no contest to felony tax e...
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Las Vegas Dealer Cleared, Looks to Sue TV Station
February 24, 2010
Embattled Las Vegas tire dealer Tire Works has been cleared by the Nevada attorney general of all charges related to customer complaints of being over-charged and uncompleted service work.
Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Feb. 23 that civil action brought by the state against the tire dealer charging deceptive business practices was dropped, even after investigations by a Las Vegas TV...
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Report: Memphis Dealer Eyed in Tire Repair Contract Dispute
February 24, 2010
The Memphis Commercial Appeal has reported that a local tire dealership, contracted with the city to repair flat tires, racked up bills of more than $1 million last year – a substantial increase from 2005 when it charged the city just $100,000.
Around Town Tire & Trucking holds the exclusive rights to repair flat tires on the city’s 5,800 vehicles, and has not been charged with any...
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Thieves Strike Pa. Dealer, May be Related to Past Thefts
February 23, 2010
Well-organized thieves broke into a tire dealership in Silver Spring Township, Pa., over the weekend and stole some $20,000 in medium truck tires.
According to police, before entering the building, the thieves cut the phone lines to Dice Tire Service, disabling the dealership’s alarm system. From there, the thieves cut a hole in the building’s wall, broke out a window and took a door...
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TCI Founder Leaving to Own Dealership
February 22, 2010
The man instrumental in the development of Michelin North America’s T3 dealer program is leaving the tiremaker to become a tire dealer himself.
Dave Snyder will leave his post as vice president of Tire Centers LLC as of Mar. 31 to assume ownership of the six retail stores still owned by TCI. As CEO of DLS Tire Centers, Snyder will own and operate T3 locations in Boulder and Colorado...
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New OTR Tire Dealer Opens in Nevada
February 22, 2010
OTR tire veterans Michael McCarley and David Travis have teamed up to launch OTR Tire Supply, a new OTR tire sales and service operation based in Reno, Nev.
The business officially launched Feb. 18.
With a promise to deliver 20% cost reductions to mines around the world, OTR Tire Supply is using the company’s proprietary Tire Asset Management system, in which the company says it consults...
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