Mehta Joins BKT
BKT Tires USA Inc. has hired Minoo Mehta to serve as vice president of ag sales. Mehta has more than 40 years of international experience in business and for the past seven years has been working with Hercules Tire and Rubber Co. In his role at BKT, Mehta is responsible for agricultural tire sales in
Warholak Tire Service
Warholak Tire Service, located in Detroit, might look like nothing out of the ordinary, even when taking a glance in the bay area. Step into the waiting room, though, and customers might feel like they were sent back to the 1950s. Co-owners Mike and Paul Warholak decorated the waiting area with mementos from the 1950s
With Imports Growing, Isn’t it Time for Representation?
It was with great interest that I read of Federal Tire Corp. and Kenda Rubber Industrial Co. joining ITMA in Europe. ITMA is the Imported Tire Manufacturers’ Association, which now has 21 members and is charged with representing and supporting the best interests of those firms importing tires into Europe. “With the sheer volume of
Offering a Value
The private brand tire segment has seen its marketshare fall throughout the 2000s as a result of a hurting tire industry stricken by global recession and additional duties placed on passenger tires imported from China. Although the segment has seen better days, it adapted to market pressures and restructured itself. Despite pressures, private branders reacted
Offering a Value
The private brand tire segment has seen its marketshare fall throughout the 2000s as a result of a hurting tire industry stricken by global recession and additional duties placed on passenger tires imported from China. Although the segment has seen better days, it adapted to market pressures and restructured itself. Despite pressures, private branders reacted
Words of the Wise
‘Veteran’ Tire Dealers Give a Glimpse of How Their Pasts Shaped Future Success
TDW Adds 15th Location in Seattle, Moves Houston Facility
Hercules Tire & Rubber Co. announced plans to open a Tire Dealer’s Warehouse (TDW) branch in Seattle in December and to relocate its TDW location in Houston to a new facility, which is slated to open Nov. 18. The new Seattle TDW location, the company’s 15th, is a 40,000-square-foot facility in the Washington South Sound
2013 Top Shop Finalist: Lex Brodie’s Tire Co.
It’s not entirely surprising that Alexander “Lex” Brodie lived an astonishing 98 years before dying in January of this year. His active life, strong business sense and ultimate success were exemplary – even legendary. He was called “one of Hawaii’s greatest entrepreneurs” time after time, and his life and accomplishments were well recounted in a
Sailun Message, Products Showcased in Event
Hot, sticky and stormy. That’s a typical June day in south Florida, and it doesn’t make a bad atmosphere to track test some tires. Especially on a brand few have any familiarity with. Hosting its very first media/dealer ride-and-drive event was TBC Brands, the wholesale distribution and private brand unit of TBC Corp., which is
TDW is Exclusive Distributor of Two New Nexen Lines
Tire Dealer’s Warehouse, a division of Hercules Tire & Rubber Co., will exclusively carry two new Nexen Tire product lines, the Nblue ECO AH01 and the NFera SU4. The tires will be distributed in the U.S. through TDW’s 14 locations, as well as Hercules’ network of independent wholesalers. “We know that these two lines