General Launches Consumer Sweepstakes and Concert Tour - Tire Review Magazine

General Launches Consumer Sweepstakes and Concert Tour

(Akron/Tire Review) Continental Tire North America has big plans for its General tire brand. First to created the General Altimax powerline, then redesigned and strengthened the General logo.

Now it has embarked on a major consumer sweepstakes – Take It to the MAX! Sweepstakes and Music Tour 2007.

The Sweepstakes, with a grand prize of a 2007 Ford Mustang GT and a specially designed General Gibson Less Paul guitar, runs from Mar. 15 through June 14.

The first place winner will receive an all-expenses-paid, three-day/two-night trip and backstage passes to the General Tire Music Tour stop in New York City and one of the customized Les Paul guitars. Other top prizes include a Kicker car audio system, Playstation 3 units and iPod Nanos.

CTNA is holding a concurrent sales contest for its dealers, with top prizes including a 2007 Mustang and the customized guitar.

The accompanying concert tour, featuring what CTNA says are the “three of the best unsigned bands in America – Kalifornium, On a Dead Machine and Martyr Reef – will reach 10 cities across the south and southwest.

“The revitalization of the General tire brand stems from an evolution of both mindset and technology that has yielded a reengineered, redesigned and re-energized brand geared toward today’s consumers. This concert is a natural fit for the new General tire,” said Paul Tecci, CTNA’s manager of programs, promotions and events.
More information on the sweepstakes and music tour is available at www.takeittothemaxtour.com.

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