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High-Stakes Niche: Industrial Tires Can Offer High Margins and Opportunity, But at a Cost

In the simplest of terms, if U.S. factories are working at or near capacity, warehouses should be busy and the market for forklift or towmotor tires should be strong. To that point, the National Association of Manufacturers reports that the manufacturing economy is generally expanding, and manufacturing employment is up by 12,000 jobs as of

Yield to Better Profits: Win Ag Business By Offering Tires and Services with the Best Yields

When Tire Review last looked at the agricultural tire market in August 2004, a weak dollar and poor growing conditions in other parts of the world were stimulating U.S. crop exports. Production demands on the ag sector were relentless. A year later, the news is still good. Farmers are enjoying a fruitful harvest with high

A Weighty Vocation: Exploring Often-Overlooked Fire Truck Tire Business Can Ignite Profits

If you’re a commercial tire dealer, you may be overlooking a relatively simple and lucrative business opportunity. Chances are good you drive right past a potential new source of sales every day and never even give a second look. That potential customer is right in your local fire station. Why is the opportunity to sell

Good Times, Hard Times: With Global Demand Straining OTR Tire Supply, Dealers Must Again Look to Customer Service For Profit Growth, Experts Say

After five or so years of just scraping by, the North American OTR tire market is enjoying a happy problem – warehouse-emptying sales. In fact, the global OTR tire business is having the same problem. But that happy problem has created a larger, more ominous issue: inventories are virtually non-existent, backorders are heavy and manufacturers

Expanding Your Turf: There is Growth in the Commercial Lawn/Garden Tire Biz

If you’re an independent tire dealer or wholesaler serving the general public – directly or indirectly – you pay attention to consumer tires. Makes sense. After all, the real volume is in passenger and light truck tire sales. But volume is only one side of the profit equation. It’s no secret that margins in passenger

Flat-Out Profitable: A Little Digging Exposes New Opportunities in a 30-Plus-Year-Old Niche Market

Consider the power of this suggestion: No more flat tires. Ever. Nudging this concept into the realm of possibility is a group of products known by some as tire fill and by others as foam fill. Due to the variety of materials being used today, the most accurate term may be “flatproofing solutions.” Simply stated,

Harvest Time?: Ag Tire Dealers Need to Act Quickly Before Another Drought Comes

, ag tire dealers hurt. The market for ag tires depends directly on the strength of the larger agricultural economy, which, to say the least, has not been favorable. Continuing farm consolidations, more imports and fewer exports combined with steadily declining crop prices have hurt the farm economy. As if these conditions weren’t enough, farmers

Get Hitched!: Selling Specialized Trailer and RV Tires Easy Money for Dealers

Trailers and RVs are hot right now, and selling specialized tires for them can mean easy money for dealers Rick Coffey is feeling pretty good these days. As product manager for the high-speed division of Carlisle Tire and Wheel Co., which offers trailer tires, Coffey has watched his sales skyrocket. All high-speed tire plants are

It’s Good to be Green: Lawn and Garden Tires

Lawn and garden tires offer a good diversification strategy for tire dealers ®“ who learn about the market first What could be better than the smell of freshly cut grass in the springtime? How about the sound of your cash register racking up another sale? Many say lawn and garden specialty tires offer tire dealers

OTR Market Climbs

As the OTR market starts to rebound, dealers need to focus on the value they bring to these demanding customers. "A lot of our dealers think we’re in the tire business. We’re not," says Manny Cicero, vice president, North American OTR sales for Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire (BFNAT). That’s an interesting sentiment for someone who

Wet & Dry?

After Laboring in Europe, the R-1W Came to American Soil – With Success Multiple codes are used to define agricultural tires. R-1, R-1W, F-2, I-1 and HF-2 are commonplace in ag tire manufacturer, dealer and farmer circles. These codes are used to quickly explain which types of soils the tire should be used in (R-1,

A Military Salute

With military equipment playing such a prominent role in world news recently, I thought it might be interesting to review the types of tires on military trucks and compare them to our more familiar over-the-road highway tires. First, both tire types perform the same basic functions of supporting loads, transferring driving and braking torques, generating