Shandong Linglong Aiming to Increase Sales 17.5% in 2009

The product range consumers can choose from is broad. Amongst the selection of tyres produced by Shandong Linglong is the Linglong brand, a full range that includes passenger car (summer, winter and performance), light truck, truck, OTR and agricultural tyres. The company also manufactures the Infinity tyre brand, a private brand belonging to Dubai’s Al Dobowi group. UK distribution of this brand is conducted by Goldspark Trading. In 2007 Shandong Linglong began work on a new 40,000 square metre factory, and progress on this work is well advanced. When the facility is operating at full capacity in 2010, it will have an annual output of 10 million tyres, bringing the company’s overall capacity to 30 million units. Mr. Wang looks towards 2009 as a year “full of opportunities and hope,” and believes that Shandong Linglong will continue hold its ground during the current economic crisis: “Over the past year, in the face of enormous international pressure on the domestic market, in the face of the global financial crisis caused by the difficulties, we do not retreat,” he commented. He anticipates annual 2009 sales of RMB 12 billion (£1.21 billion).