Image is Everything
Building on last month’s coverage of store layouts and marketing ideas, this column will highlight several products that can enhance any retail store and offer your customers an appealing environment that not only looks great, but is highly functional, as well. Special events are a great way to generate some buzz, get your name out,
That Time Again
Change, as anyone will tell you, is inevitable. And so it is with the International Tire Expo, which moved to a new hall in the massive Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) last year, and features a slimmed down program in 2003.
Growing Up Fast: Focus on Hot Segments Helps Federal Build N.A. Business
Federal Tire President Jamie Ma is only 29 years old, but he has been relentless in working to build up the company his grandfather started in Taiwan almost a half century ago. Ma, who joined Federal in 1998, majored in accounting and finance at the University of California at Berkeley. Federal has expanded its distribution
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It took seemingly forever, but NHTSA finally issued final tire performance and testing standards in late June – more than a year after its initial proposal was revealed. The new standards feature more stringent performance test parameters, including a controversial low inflation pressure test provision.
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After nearly seven years of trying to reshape Goodyear into the world’s largest tiremaker only to see it backslide to the brink of financial disaster, Sam Gibara is out.
Getting it Right: TCI’s Careful Selection of Dealers and Program Offerings is Paying Off
David Snyder, vice president of small tire marketing and sales, has been with Tire Centers LLC (TCI) since the company was formed in January 1986. Back then, TCI was focused on the commercial side of the industry – garnering less than 10% of its overall business from the retail side. All of that changed, however,
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Still a Long Road Ahead for Troubled TiremakerDespite posting the worst losses in the company’s 105-year history, things began to look up for the financially troubled Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. during a hectic early spring.
East Beats West
As with so many fads, fashions and technologies, the Japanese – more precisely, the Japanese youth ®€“ are credited with starting the now-burgeoning sport compact tuner business. It started first on Left Coast with Japanese sport compact models, and moved slowly east. Across the continent, European sport compacts were the rides of choice as the East Coast tuner influence headed west.
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. received a one-month extension from its various banks to comply with loan agreement covenants that, among other things, would have forced the struggling tiremaker to make a $500 million contribution to its underfunded pension program. The extension was granted Mar. 5, two days before a temporary waiver was set to expire, and expires Apr. 4.
Capitalizing on TPMS
Looking for ways to pump up winter tire and wheel sales? How about selling tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS)? There are several designs now on the market, or about to be introduced, that offer a tremendous opportunity for dealers to make a good profit. Whether you’re ready or not, you will have to be prepared