New Angle to Old Problems
TIA’s “Recommended Practice” approach to used, aged tires makes sense. RMA should agree, right?
Dialogue Starts?
Here’s What You (Few) Had to Say About Tire Repair Questions.
WWYD?
Repair or Not Repair (and Under What Law), That is The Question
The Truth & Lies Behind Fill Rates
Why are fill rates so low, what is being done about it and what can tire dealers do to help themselves through the challenges posed by low fill rates?
Ohio Distributor Leading Shift in Wholesale Business
In 1972, No Name Tire Store opened its doors in small-town Alliance, Ohio. Owned by Terry Tolerton, the business changed its name to Terry’s Tire Town thanks to an advertising contest. And what started as a five-bay front in a town wedged between Akron and Canton grew to seven stores and a burgeoning wholesale business
Yokohama Showcases Orange Oil in All-New Avid Ascend
How does orange oil make tires better (at least in the minds of Yokohama Tire Corp. researchers)? There is a laundry list of legitimate chemistry and compounding reasons, deep level science only the most nerdy among us could understand. And then there is one special reason. Believe it or not, YTC R&D folks confess, it’s
Analyst Advice: Take the Money and Run!
That’s the hard advice to Pep Boys shareholders from Anthony Cristello of BB&T Capital Markets, who sees the $15 per share offer from investment firm Gores Group as the best available option. Cristello said Pep Boys, which earlier this week agreed to be bought out in a $1 billion deal, has few legitimate suitors on
TR Statement on Web Reader Comments
Dear Readers, Yesterday we took the unprecedented action of blocking all future reader comments on any online story on tirereview.com relating to the ongoing contract negotiations between Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Steelworkers of America. To be very, very clear, we took this step of our own accord. It was done because
Cooper Update: Sides Disagree on Future Talks, Workers Angry at USW
It appears there will be no further negotiations between Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and locked out USW workers at the tiremaker’s Findlay, Ohio, plant.
New GT Radial Website for U.S.
U.S. tire buyers can now make use of then all-new GT Radial website – gtradial-us.com. Giti North America said the revised site "is designed to help consumers easily find the right tire and their nearest GT Radial dealer." “Above everything else, we wanted to make sure that our new website is easy for time-starved consumers