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RMA Now Counting Shipment Data from Overseas Makers

Seeking to gain better insight into tire shipment activities in the U.S., the RMA has launched a program to collect data from a number of overseas tiremakers. As of now, five Chinese tiremakers and one Singapore producer have signed on for the program, and Taiwan’s Cheng Shin/Maxxis is considering joining the group. Now providing tire

Advancing in N.A. Market Takes Products, Cooperation, Technology

As with most great adventures, the first steps are usually the hardest to take.  CMA and Double Coin began marketing TBR products in North Amer­ica in 1992, with container-delivered, price-driven programs. Dealers were able to use the products as profit building items to offer end-users cost alternatives. Distributors could use the products as profitable lines

Master Social Media to Support Your Brand

Will tire dealers become irrelevant if they don’t master social media? The imperative for dealers to develop a social media program becomes more evident every day. Hundreds of nationally known companies are supporting their brands and selling additional products and services through the strategic use of social media programs. When recently asked about change, Gen.

Language Lessons and Civic Turmoil

Chalk this up as things you didn’t know. Well, at least I didn’t know. In the midst of the nail-biting tensions between the two Koreas, it has been suggested that South Korea needs to distance itself from its confrontational and irrational sister to the north by changing its name. Michael Breen, author, foreign correspondent and

SDA Increases Florida Footprint

Miami’s South Dade Automotive has opened its third warehouse in Florida. The company’s new 49,000-square-foot warehouse is located in Pompano. The American Car Care Centers member distributor carries Goodyear, Continental, Dunlop, General, Yokohama, Falken, Hankook, Pirelli, Mastercraft, Achilles, Kelly, Sunny, Nankang and Kumho products, in addition to Remington and Jinyu truck tires.

Goodyear Joins Price Hike Trend

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will increase prices on all of its consumer tires in North America by up to 6% as of June 1. This includes Goodyear, Dunlop and Kelly-Springfield brands. The company cites rising raw material and transportation costs as the reasons for the increases. Goodyear is the latest in a long list

The Strategy Behind Tire Company Price Increases

There are price increases and there are price increases. Anyone who has observed the tire market for long enough will be aware that what it says in the book and what customers pay are often two different things. Firstly, when someone like a bank says “price increases,” they are referring to the proportion of the

More Tire Price Increases Announced

Yokohama Tire Corp. and Hankook Tire America joined in on the current round of raw-material-driven tiremaker price increases. Yokohama said it would raise prices on all of its consumer tires by up to 8% effective June 1. Hankook is raising prices by up to 6% on its passenger, light truck/SUV and medium duty truck tires,

Tire Warehouse Opens New Massachusetts Location

Tire Warehouse opened its newest location April 11 in North Adams, Mass., bringing the company’s total to 788 active locations across its multiple brands. “We are very pleased to now have 13 Tire Warehouse locations in Massachusetts, as an added convenience to our customers,” said Joseph Tomarchio, Jr., executive vice president of store operations. “We

Michelin’s F1 Return Dependent on Competition

Michelin’s return as a tire supplier to Formula One is partly dependent on competition from rival companies, a spokesman told Racing Engineering. Bridgestone’s F1 contract will run out at the end of the season, leaving the category without a confirmed tire provider for 2011. Michelin has expressed interest in returning, but a deal appears to