Bridgestone’s Laubie Retires

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations today announced that Dave Laubie, long-time head of Bridgestone’s U.S. sales engineering efforts, has retired. Laubie was vice president of sales engineering, and had been with the company since 1970. His retirement was effective 1 February. William Thomas, most recently the assistant plant manager for Bridgestone Argentina, will assume Laubie’s responsibilities in the role of executive director of sales engineering.

The recipient of TMC’s Silver Spark Plug Award began his career in the international division of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and worked in a number of international posts before joining Bridgestone (USA) in 1982. He became sales engineering vice president in 2003. (Tire Review/Akron)