A Focus on People Defines Today’s Top Shops
For the past few years in the tire industry, there has been a keen focus on people– keeping people on your staff happy, attracting new ones to your business, finding ways to challenge tenured employees…the list goes on. In fact, tire dealers like you are getting pretty innovative in ways they’re working with their staff
An Unwavering Team Effort Propels Telle Tire & Auto Centers to 2022 Top Shop Honors
When a customer hands over the keys to his or her vehicle to the counterperson at any Telle Tire & Auto Centers location, it seems customary that they do it with the phrase: “You know, I remember when my grandpa or dad used to bring his car here.” Fourth-generation CEO and President Aaron Telle says
Telle Tire & Auto Centers Named 2022 Top Shop Winner
Telle Tire & Auto Centers, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with 19 locations throughout the state, was named this year’s Tire Review Top Shop Winner. Aaron Telle, a fourth-generation tire dealer and the company’s president and CEO, and Laura Telle, Aaron’s wife and chief people officer, accepted the award at the Top Shop Summit with
‘Quality Service After the Sale’ Sets Janesville Tire Apart
The sun peeked through the clouds on a breezy September morning in Clarion, Iowa as Paul Beckstrand jumped out of his pickup truck, gas station coffee in hand, to greet Big Bud 747. The tall white tractor, weighing in at 95,000 pounds, is billed as the world’s largest farm tractor, and on that summer day
‘Big Inventory’ Boosts J Rod’s Tire & Service
In the small town of Sharon Springs, Kansas, sits a community tire shop that started out of a garage of a home in 2015. That shop — which is a 2022 K&M Tire Top Shop Finalist this year – is J-Rod’s Tire Service LLC, run and owned by husband-and-wife duo Jarrod and Lindsay Hartman. Jarrod
For Kantner’s Tire Service, Adaptability Equals Success
At Kantner’s Tire Service, efficient and honest service comes just as easily as treating staff and customers like family. That’s because the Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania-based tire dealership is, in fact, a third-generation, family-owned business that has stayed true to its roots for more than four decades. The single-location dealership, owned by the Roberts family, has provided
Smetz’s Tire & Service Center Named K&M Tire Top Shop Winner
Smetz’s Tire & Service Center, a third-generation tire dealer from Ashland, Ohio, was named this year’s 2022 K&M Tire Mr. Tire/Big 3 Tire Top Shop Winner. K&M honored this year’s winner at its 2022 Dealer Conference and Trade Show from Feb. 17-19 in Kansas City at the Sheraton Overland Park Hotel at the Convention Center.
Labor Issue No Match for Tire Dealers Thinking Outside the Box
With employees out sick positive with COVID-19 or out due to possible exposure, tire dealers across the country are grappling with scheduling issues and staffing up their stores, especially with the onslaught of employees resigning completely due to “The Great Resignation.” The past two years have not been easy for many tire dealers as tire
Top Shop Nominations Now Open!
Now in its 16th year, Tire Review is once again searching for the “best of the best” independent tire dealers in North America with its industry-leading Top Shop Awards program, presented by Coats. The Top Shop Awards program highlights independent tire dealers that best epitomize the key attributes and values of a highly successful business.
How Tire Dealers Gave Back in 2021
Tire Review takes a look back at how tire dealers supported their communities in 2021, from donating to various organizations, events, volunteering and more.
