Checking the Tire Industry’s Pulse as 2025 Winds Down
As the industry ramps up for the end-of-the-year selling season, analyst and MTD columnist John Healy is checking the pulse for the final quarter of 2025.
John Healy offers an overview of the tire industry at the opening bell of the fourth quarter of 2025. Healy is a managing director and research analyst with Northcoast Research Holdings LLC, and author of MTD’s monthly Your Marketplace column.
As the industry ramps up for the end-of-the-year selling season, Analyst and MTD Columnist John Healy is checking the pulse for the final quarter of 2025. Amid all the tariff talk, economic uncertainty and industry-specific issues at hand, Healy offers what he thinks are the most important factors to weigh as 2025 rolls into 2026.
Joy Kopcha joined Modern Tire Dealer and Auto Service Professional as senior editor in 2014 after working as a newspaper reporter for a dozen years in Kansas, Indiana and Pennsylvania. She was named managing editor of MTD and ASP in 2022, and took on that same role with Motor Age in 2024.
She is an award-winning journalist, including in 2023 when she was named a Jesse H. Neal Awards Finalist.
