Super Wides: Can Super Wide Tires Cut Fuel Costs?
Smart fleets and progressive tire dealers opt for a symbiotic relationship – one in which the dealer helps the fleet lower its operating costs, while the fleet ensures continued business for the dealer. After all, a supplier relationship in its ideal form should be a partnership, not just a sales contract. Still, commercial tire innovation
Strike Leads To Supplier Layoffs
(Akron/Tire Review) Performance Fibers’ plant in Moncure, N.C., has announced layoffs, according to Raleigh’s WRAL TV, due directly to reduced orders caused by the United Steelworkers strike at 12 Goodyear tire plants in North America.
TIC Becomes TyreSafe
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) From January 2007, the Tyre Industry Council will be known as TyreSafe, a move the group says will raise its profile and allow it to become more a proactively consumer-facing organisation.
Bridgestone Shares Rise on Back of Bandag Acquisition
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Bridgestone Corp. shares rose 3.5% to 2,550 yen, the company’s greatest gain in two months, after the tyremaker agreed to purchase retreader Bandag Inc.
Analysts Upgrade Cooper Shares
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Some financial analyst reports have become increasingly optimistic regarding Cooper Tire’s intermediate term performance.
More HP Tyres for Polish Motorists
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) The tyre market in Poland is growing continuously.
Tire Workers Face Tough Road
(Akron/Tire Review – Fayetteville (NC) Observer) The thrust of my Oct. 12 op-ed was that the economic strike at the Fayetteville Goodyear tire plant was not going to benefit the United Steelworkers of America’s rank-and-file nearly as much as it would harm them, particularly in the near term.
Striking Union’s Ads Slash Tiremaker
(Akron/Tire Review – Washington Times) There’s nothing subtle about the national advertising campaign being mounted by the United Steelworkers of America: Buy Goodyear tires and risk death.
USW Disputes Analysts Date Claim
(Akron/Tire Review) The United Steelworkers is now attacking a report by Himansho Patel, an analyst with JP Morgan Securities, which suggests a key date in the union’s current strike against Goodyear could be Jan. 3 – the date plant worker medical benefit coverage lapses.
Fossit and Thorne Win Shaw Trust Employer of the Year
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) A Lincolnshire tyre retail chain owner has won recognition for his decision to offer a second chance to young people who fear they are on the scrap heap.