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August 16, 2010

Full-speed ahead for Global Tire Expo  

What’s learned in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas. The Tire Industry Association (TIA) is offering educational sessions packed with take-home, practical advice at the first-ever Global Tire Expo - Powered by TIA. The expo will be held Nov. 2-5 in Las Vegas, Nev., as part of the 2010 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show.

Tags: Global Tire Expo, SEMA Show, TIA, Tire Industry Association

The Shanghai plant can produce up to 2.8 million radial truck tires annually.
July 26, 2010

Produce or lose  

Fill rates are not overrated. That seemed to be the overriding attitude of not only executives from Double Coin Holdings Ltd., but also tire dealers in Shanghai, China, recently.

Tags: China, Double Coin

Rob Oudshoorn, CEO of Vredestein Apollo, with the Wintrac Nextreme.
July 26, 2010

Low rolling resistance, high expectations  

Green tires and pending government regulations were a major part of the recently completed 26th International Reifen Trade Fair at Essen, Germany. Guests from 127 countries, 600 exhibitors from 42 countries, and more than 18,000 buyers attended the fair.

Tags: Conference, Convention, green tires, Reifen Trade Fair, TIA

“We’re not in the luxury item business,” says Billy Eordekian, president of 1-800EveryRim.com LLC, which sells used wheels to independent tire dealerships, body shops and other businesses throughout the country. “We sell a necessity.”
March 16, 2010

Rolling with the punches  

In a bad economy, when fewer car owners are exchanging their original equipment rims for shiny, new custom wheels, you would think a used wheel broker like Billy Eordekian would be hurting due to lack of inventory.

Tags: 1-800EveryRim.com, wheels

September 10, 2009

Show of shows!  

Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week (AAIW) kicks off Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, in Las Vegas. Comprised of the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show, which includes the Tire Industry Association (TIA) Tires, Wheels & Equipment (TWE) section, and the Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX), AAIW will include more than 4,000 U.S. and international exhibits. The AAIW expects more than 100,000 attendees who will get a chance to preview more than 7,500 new products.

Tags: SEMA Show, TIA, Trade show

Corghi displayed tire changers, balancers, alignment machines and other equipment at the event. The company plans to bring its aligners to the North American market in 2010.
July 20, 2009

Open for business  

Despite being held during a particularly intense global economic recession, the 2009 edition of Autopromotec drew a record number of attendees (101,620), 2.4% more than the last edition of the show, which was held in 2007.

Tags: Autopromotec, Italy

February 19, 2009

What economic recession? The forecast is sunny, say Kumho executives  

If you had the foresight to stock extra 225/50R17 ultra-high performance tires or 225/65R17 P-metric light truck tires last year, chances are you sold them all. Domestic shipments of those two sizes increased dramatically in 2008 compared to 2007. Conversely, shipments in broad-line size 215/70R15 dropped by more than 1 million units year to year.

Tags: J.B. Kim, Kumho, Kumho Tire, Kumho Tire U.S.A. Inc.

The move to Bend, Ore., gives Les Schwab Tire Centers "access to more people," says CEO Dick Borgman.
January 30, 2009

Declaration of independence: There are no plans to sell, says Les Schwab CEO  

Since Les Schwab’s death in 2007, rumors have swirled about the fate of Les Schwab Tire Centers Inc. The company’s move from small-town Prineville, Ore., to resort-town Bend, Ore., already was in motion, but that hasn’t stopped the naysayers who predict a sale is inevitable.

Tags: Les Schwab, Les Schwab Tire Centers

Hankook is packaging and presenting its Kontrol Technology to North American consumers. “We are in the first tier in the area of technology,” says Sang Ju Lee, vice president, research division, at Hankook Tire Co.’s R&D Center in Korea, and one of the architects of Kontrol Technology.
December 17, 2008

Under Kontrol  

At Hankook Tire America Corp., control — or more accurately, “Kontrol” — is the new buzzword. The tire manufacturer used last month’s Specialty Equipment Market Association Show as a vehicle to introduce its Kontrol Technology to the North American market.

Tags: Bainbridge, Hankook, Lee

“We’re adjusting our inventory levels” to meet demand, says Dick Wilkerson, chairman and president of Michelin North America Inc.
December 17, 2008

Despite production cutbacks...  

Despite the current economic climate and supply-and-demand imbalances that have forced various manufacturers to temporarily clip production, Michelin North America Inc. (MNA) remains committed to North American manufacturing, says MNA Chairman and President Dick Wilkerson. (Wilkerson replaced former MNA Chairman and President Jim Micali this past August when Micali retired.)

Tags: Michelin, MNA, Wilkerson

<I>Modern Tire Dealer</I> Editor Bob Ulrich shares TPMS statistics with the ITTC attendees. <I>MTD</I> was the media sponsor of the three-day event.
June 1, 2008

‘An engineer and a salesman walk into a bar...’  

Jacques Bajer is an engineer by trade. Percy Ruch is a salesman. Although they have vastly different perspectives, they agree on at least one fundamental rule of retail: The consumer is king.

The NT850 Premium is Nitto’s first luxury touring tire. The tire sports large tread blocks on the outer shoulder and a silica tread compound.
June 1, 2008

Premium plans  

Nitto Tire U.S.A. Inc. and American Tire Distributors Inc. (ATD) are making a run at the growing luxury touring tire market with Nitto’s first entry into the segment, the Nitto NT850 Premium.

Michael Cox, CEO and president of the Independent Tire Dealers Group LLC (left), talks business with Vic DeIorio, executive vice president of sales and development for GITI Tire (USA) Ltd. Cox says ITDG’s tire vendors support its expansion plans.
June 1, 2008

‘Go east!’  

In the 1800s, “Go west, young man!” was a famous expression. This year, the Independent Tire Dealers Group LLC (ITDG), until recently a western states-focused organization, is going east.

“I like the fact that you can get tires through other people and get credit for it now,” said Noah Furrow (right), co-owner of Express Tire & Lube in Scottsville, Ky., with his father, Greg (pictured at left).
December 1, 2007

MAST makes BIG changes: Aptly named Alliance program changes relationships  

On Jan. 1, independent retailers who buy Michelin, BFGoodrich and Uniroyal consumer tires from MAST (Michelin Americas Small Tires) will begin purchasing the tires under MAST’s new Alliance Associate Dealer (AAD) program. Michelin calls the new program a “fundamental shift” in the way it will do business with its dealers.

Up to 60% of tires made at Hankook’s Jiaxing, China, plant are exported to North America.
December 1, 2007

Co-dependent growth: Production hikes in China and Korea will lift Hankook’s North American business  

What Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. does in South Korea and China over the next couple of years will influence the company’s growth in North America.

Walt Sudderth, OTR sales manager for King’s Tire Service in Bluewell, W.Va. (far left) attended the grand opening of Yokohama’s second Onomichi, Japan, OTR tire plant along with Rocky Williams, OTR operations manager for Parkhouse Tire Inc. in Fontana, Calif., and Rick Williams, vice president of Mi
December 1, 2007

Playing catch-up: Yokohama opens second OTR plant. Forty percent of production will go to U.S.  

“We’re part of history, boys,” said Rick Williams, vice president of Miller Brothers Giant Tire Service in Tampa, Fla., during the grand opening of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd.’s second OTR tire plant in Onomichi City, Japan.

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