Developer of the AcuTread retreading process and former owner of Sumerel Tire Service Inc. Bob Majewski recently retired after a 50-year career in the retreading business.

For many retreaders, 2020 wasn’t a year to invest in major expansion. As Michael Berra Jr., president of Community Tire Co. in St. Louis, Mo., put it, “2020 was a survival year.”

Wonderland Tire of Byron Center, Mich., has acquired Sumerel Tire Service Inc., of Newport, Ky.  The deal gives Wonderland Tire three more retread plants — in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.

The challenges of 2020 have been immense, and commercial tire dealers are doing their best to weather the storm. As Bob Berlin, president of Orange, Mass.-based Pete’s Tire Barns Inc., put it, “We’re pretty much flat for the year — and we’re happy.”