François Michelin is 80 Today

François Michelin, Michelin managing partner from 1955 to 1999, is 80 today. The grandson of the global tyre manufacturer’s founder, Edouard Michelin (who died in 1940 at the age of 81), François Michelin is also the father of another former managing partner, Edouard Michelin, who died in an accident at the age of 42 on 26 May.

For decades François Michelin led the company with his cousin François Rollier, who died in 1992 at the age of 77. Rollier’s son, who had been Edouard Michelin’s co-managing partner, Michel Rollier (61), recently took over leadership of the company as sole managing partner. In the 1998 Michelin Charter François Michelin is quoted as saying: “Each woman and each man is singular and irreplaceable“ (“Chaque homme est unique et irreplaceable“). Today nothing has to be added to this truth.