A Financial Look at the Automotive Aftermarket in 2019 and Beyond
Incremental pressure on the lower-income consumer from ongoing inflationary pressures and increased complexity of parts are likely to remain tailwinds for repair shops and dealers.
What Investment Activity Can Foretell About the Future of the Tire Industry
Following the money can serve as a valuable barometer to help predict where the industry is headed with increased interest in the tire segment from private equity, institutional investors and strategic acquirers.
Tire Manufacturing Trends: New Technologies Improve Efficiencies Amid Industry Evolution
The need for more automation and faster size changes in tires over the last couple of decades has led to an industry manufacturing transformation.
Challenges, Change and China: A Look at the 2018 Retread Industry
There’s price competition from low-quality imported tires, increasing regulatory threats from government agencies and uncertainty about raw materials costs. But there’s still cautious optimism in the retread industry.
Commercial Tire Industry Trends: Consolidation, Electric Trucks & More to Come
Change is happening at an even more rapid pace than in the past in the commercial tire industry through freight consolidation, government regulation and other trends.
How Evolving Mobility Will Impact the Consumer Tire Marketplace
How tires are engineered, manufactured, distributed and sold is changing to address autonomous cars, electric vehicles and the growth of shared mobility. But safety must always remain paramount.
Our Autonomous Future: The Outlook for Driverless Vehicles
Driverless or not, safety continues to be both the biggest motivator for automotive manufacturers to invest in the autonomous vehicle, as well as the biggest driver for consumers to question the technology.
Fixing Tire Registration: How Tire Dealers Can Help
By simply registering a tire D.O.T. with the manufacturer, the dealer sets into motion the key data point that will make a difference in tire safety.
The Disruptive Force in Tire Development
Autonomous driving is a game-changing opportunity for the automotive industry as well as its greatest challenge.
New U.S. Ag Tire Market Report Released
QY Research has released the 2017 edition of their annual report on ag tires. The report features information on market growth, volume, and supply chain data for ag tires, and much more.
Tire Industry Data Challenges We Need to Catch Up
From my perspective, the tire industry is light years behind when it comes to the use of data. But this is expected to rapidly change in the near future. I have been traveling the U.S. for the past 29 months visiting tire dealers, collecting their sell-out data that will be used to measure the independent tire channel.
China on the Rise Tire Companies Making Waves Around the Globe
The Chinese tire industry, which has grown exponentially for more than a decade, has been facing a slowdown for the past two years. Tariff and non-tariff barriers imposed by a number of key countries and huge overcapacity in domestic tire manufacturing have adversely affected the industry.