Tire Kingdom To Donate Portion of Tire Sales to Hurricane Dorian Victims

Tire Kingdom, in partnership with the Red Cross, is donating $10 for every set of tires purchased in-store from now until Sept. 30 to help those affected by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.

Published: September 10, 2019

Tire Kingdom, in partnership with the Red Cross, is donating $10 for every set of tires purchased in-store from now until Sept. 30 to help those affected by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.

Tire Kingdom will donate $2.50 per tire sold, which will be exclusively paid to the Red Cross.

Hurricane Dorian has affected more than 76,000 people from the Grand Bahamas and Abaco Islands alone and life-threatening storm surges, violent winds and heavy rainfall continue to ravage the Atlantic seaboard, Tire Kingdom says.

Yokohama Rubber holds groundbreaking for Mexico tire plant

The facility is set to begin production in early 2027 with a planned annual output of five million tires.

By Christian Hinton

Published: April 22, 2024

Yokohama Rubber held a groundbreaking event on April 15 for its new consumer and light truck tire plant at the Alianza Industrial Park in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. The company said the event was well attended by a crowd of state and local officials, as well as management from Yokohama companies, including YRC Chairman and CEO Masataka Yamishi; Yokohama Corporation North America (YCNA) CEO Shinichi Takimoto; and Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC) President and CEO Jeff Barna.