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Les Schwab Chairman to Retire in 2008

Les Schwab Tire Centers announced today that company Chairman Phil Wick will retire in December 2008.

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During the interim period, he will serve as an advisor on various projects related to the company’s outstanding customer service programs.

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Wick spent his entire 40-year career with Les Schwab Tire Centers, beginning in the tire-changing bays in 1965, Wick became a store manager at age 24.

Over the next three decades he held several management positions and was selected by Les Schwab to be President in 1983. Wick became Chairman in 2006

Wick will remain a member of the Les Schwab Board of Directors. Dick Borgman will assume responsibility as Chairman of the Board, along with his role as CEO. (Tire Review/Akron)

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