Tenneco Plans Expansion of DRIVE Education Effort
(Akron/Tire Review) Tenneco’s DRIVE education program, launched in 2005, will target several new automotive vocational and high school programs this fall.
Tenneco Launches Comeback Promotion
(Akron/Tire Review) From Sept. 1 through Oct. 31, consumers can be rewarded for replacing worn shocks and struts in Monroe shocks and struts’ “Monster Cash” promotion, earning up to a $60 comeback certificate on future automotive services.
Illicit Tappers Attack Rubber Plantation in Liberia
(Akron/Tire Review – Voice of America News, Monrovia, Liberia) Criminal gangs are attacking Bridgestone Corp.’s Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia.
New Web Site Focuses on Ride Control Education
(Akron/Tire Review) As part of an industry-wide consumer awareness program, Tenneco’s new Web site can help teach drivers about the role of shocks and struts play in daily driving and vehicle safety.
BFNAT Back as Formula D Sponsor
(Akron/Tire Review) Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire has signed on to sponsor the 2007 Need for Speed Formula Drift (Formula D) Championship Series.
Tenneco Launches 2007 Expert Plus Program
(Akron/Tire Review) Now in its ninth year, Tenneco’s Expert Plus program provides member vehicle service businesses with an array of point-of-sale materials, promotions, advertising and training to help maximize their profits with Tenneco products – Monroe shocks and struts, Monroe brakes, Walker exhaust products, DynoMax performance exhaust, and Rancho suspensions and shock absorbers.
Tenneco Expands Capacity, Coverage For Quick-Strut Assembly
(Akron/Tire Review) Tenneco Inc. announced the third expansion of production capacity and an increase in application coverage for its Monroe Quick-Strut assembly, a fully assembled replacement strut for late-model passenger vehicles.
Liberian MP Seeks UN to Protect Firestone Plantation
(Akron/Tire Review – Deutsche Presse Agentur) A lawmaker in Liberia’s lower house of parliament has called on the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to deploy troops on a plantation owned by Firestone Natural Rubber Co. to prevent its takeover by a criminal gang.
Unchecked Illegal Tapping, Paper Says, May Force Plantation Action
(Akron/Tire Review) The Liberian Times has reported that Bridgestone Americas Holding’s Firestone Plantation Co. in Liberia has threatened to close down its activities in the country if the Liberian government does not help control illegal tapping at the facility.
Liberian President Pleads With Firestone Workers
(Akron/Tire Review – Monrovia Inquirer) Amidst reports that workers at the Firestone Rubber Plantation have embarked on a go slow in protest over the management’s decision to continue effecting a 37.5% deduction in their salary arrears, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has pleaded with the workers to accept the deduction.