Death by a Thousand Cuts
Is your good nature and the ‘cost of doing business’ doing in your business?
TIA’s 2013 OTR Conference Heavy on Data, Networking
More than 500 members of the tire industry gathered in Puerto Rico for this year’s TIA OTR Conference, not quite a record but an impressive total nonetheless. What was a record was the number of international attendees, who visited the 58th annual conference from 18 countries. Perhaps it was the weather; the beachfront Gran Melia
Visiting Nokian’s ‘White Hell’ to See the Latest Winter Beaters
The reason Akron became the Rubber Capital of the World was not its unique ability or those of its inhabitants or even the earnestness and inventiveness of the locals. It was, in fact, all about location, location, location. Akron sat along a major east-west shipping corridor with railroads and the Erie Canal servicing the area,
Hankook Execs Share Growth Plans, New Products at Meeting
Lee said that due to a combination of increased availability of product from capacity expansions in the tiremaker’s Indonesia and Hungary facilities, as well as the end of U.S. tariffs on Chinese-produced consumer tires, it is “very reasonable” to see Hankook’s North American business unit reach sales of $1.4 billion in 2013. Over the last