Jim Smith

Jim Smith

Longtime Tire Review Editor Jim Smith passed away on Feb. 18, 2016. He was 57. With 30 years in the tire and automotive industries, Jim's communications experience included stints as a newspaper reporter and editor, a public relations manager and a variety of creative and management roles with a B2B marketing communications agency. A Kent State University journalism major, Jim served as editor for a number of community newspapers in Northeast Ohio before joining Modern Tire Dealer in 1984. After four years in brand and corporate public relations roles with Bridgestone Americas, Jim joined Nashville's Stumpf Bartels Advertising in 1992. He became Tire Review's editor in October 1999. Jim was honored with the Ed Wagner Tire Industry Leadership Award by the Tire Industry Association in November 2014.

Cracking the Corporate Culture Club

Having recently changed jobs — and cities and states ®€” the issue of corporate cultures came to mind. I’ve had some experience with a variety of corporate cultures. Small family-owned companies. Large mega-corporations. North and south. Some great, others simply confounding. There’ve been countless articles about the corporate culture thing — why they are good,

Editor's Notebook January 1, 2000

Cashing in On Broadline Tires

Cashing in On Broadline Tires Everyone buys them. Everyone sells them. But nobody is quite sure what they are anymore. And it appears they won’t last much longer, if they even exist now. Broadline tires. Back in the days of bias ply and bias-belted tires – and even after radials took over – the term

Passenger/Light Truck January 1, 2000