Tire Dealer of the Year
Each year Modern Tire Dealer selects one tire dealer for its annual Tire Dealer of the Year award. The collection of past winners is an honor roll of inspiring innovators and leaders who have changed the tire industry. When a new tire dealer is selected to join those ranks, he or she is highlighted in our September issue and featured on the cover of MTD. The Tire Dealer of the Year's favorite charity also receives a donation of $1,000 from MTD, and a portion of the proceeds from all congratulatory ads that appear in the September issue.
The nomination period for 2026 will open in January.
2025 Winner
Ken Langhals
K&M Tire Inc.
Ken Langhals has spent 55 years building his company, K&M Tire Inc., into one of the largest tire distributors in North America.
And build it he has. What began as a two-bay Marathon gas station has developed into a wholesale distribution company with more than 40 distribution centers. K&M Tire’s footprint of locations stretches from Maine to New Mexico and North Dakota to Texas.
Across the miles Langhals and the 1,200 employees of K&M Tire count many small, single-location tire dealerships as their customers.
“I love our employees. I love our customers. I love our partners. I love coming to work. We’re a large company, but I don’t look at us as a large company. I look at us as small-town people who just enjoy selling tires.”
