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Stapleton’s private brands reflecting diversity of segment

Noting the present wide ranging diversity of fitments in the current 4×4/SUV market, Stapleton’s notes that the opportunities open to the retailer present a challenge in requiring a wide breadth of stock to meet increasingly specialised demand. While retailers can expect the usual range of premium brand tyres in this segment from the wholesaler, it says there has been a particular focus in this segment on providing a variety of lower-priced private brands.

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Maxxis M8060 Trepador Competition a success at Autosport

Maxxis launched its latest 4×4 product, the Trepador Competition at Autosport 2013. The tyre, designed to improve control on difficult terrain, has a multi-stage staggered shoulder pattern and nylon belt reinforced construction, and is designed to offer dealers the possibility of good margins. Maxxis invited specialist 4×4 tyre dealer Jerry Hunt of SETYRES in Portsmouth to join the manufacturer, and he declared himself impressed with the brand and new product.

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Kumho extends 4×4 fitments

Meeting the increasing demands of larger 4×4 tyres, Kumho’s 4×4 tyre range is designed to cover popular Range Rover, Mercedes ML, Porsche Cayenne, VW Touareg and BMW X5 models as well as established Land Rover Defender fitments. Its latest ECSTA X3 KL17 line-up for top-of-the-range SUVs now includes popular fitments in the 18-22” size range. Kumho says the tyre has been designed to “take leadership” of the UHP market, spearheading a growing selection of technology-driven Kumho products for SUVs.

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GT Radial improving 4×4 performance across range

The GT Radial brand currently contains three tyres to cover the range of 4×4 applications – the Adventuro M/T, Adventuro A/T and Savero HT Plus. Manufactured by GiTi Tire, the brand says that the current range offers its best performance yet to the segment, with fitments available for the lower and middle ranges of the 4×4/SUV market.

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Dunlop unveils soft compound tyre as BTCC launches with capacity grid

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship has launched its 2013 season at Donington Park with a full to capacity, record grid of 32 cars from 18 teams. 26 of these will be next generation touring car specification, while the remaining six S2000 cars will compete for the Jack Sears Trophy. The home broadcaster of the BTCC, ITV announced that its support would continue to at least 2017, with more than 230 hours of coverage planned for 2013 across ITV and ITV4, on which live coverage will be broadcast. Tyre supplier Dunlop introduced its tyre range for the championship, with the most notable change from the 2012 season being the introduction of a soft compound slick. Dunlop representatives told Tyrepress.com that the change in tyre regulations would help the brand “to converse about tyre characteristics”, giving a fillip to its overall marketing profile.

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Hybrid technology takes Michelin Green X Challenge chequered flag

Audi Sport made Michelin Green X Challenge history at this year’s Twelve Hours of Sebring race in the US, becoming the first hybrid powered vehicle to claim victory in the country’s premier environmental motorsports competition. The Audi R18 e-tron Quattro driven by Marcel Fassler, Benoit Treluyer and Oliver Jarvis – a prototype that previously won both last year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans and FIA World Endurance Championship – added a third feather to its cap on 16 March.

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Pothole incidents on the rise, claims Kwik Fit

It probably won’t surprise the average motorist at all to hear the findings of a report commissioned by Kwik Fit – the number of vehicles hitting potholes has increased 143 per cent in the last two years. The studies carried out by ICM Research in January 2011 and then in March 2013 indicate that nearly 39 per cent of motorists, some 13 million people, collided with a pothole in the past 12 months, compared with 5.7 million in 2011.

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Yokohama plant receives Chinese grant

Yokohama Rubber’s tyre plant in China, Hangzhou Yokohama Tire Co., Ltd., has benefitted in RMB 13.47 million (£1.4 million) in grants from Hangzhou City and the Hangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone (HEDA). The grants cover the period between December 2012 and March 2013 and the Japanese manufacturer says they were given in recognition of the company's economic and environmental activities. The grants awarded to Hangzhou Yokohama are said to represent the largest amount awarded to a single company (as opposed to a group of companies) amongst the 340 or so located in the HEDA.

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Michelin adds flavour to its Goodwood stand

Michelin’s status as a culinary authority will come in handy at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (FoS) 2013; during this year’s event the tyre maker and Michelin guide publisher will draw visitors in with cooking demonstrations by Michelin starred chefs on its main exhibition stand.

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Russia remains a Nokian strength

Nokian Tyres has released its 2012 annual report, and the Finnish manufacturer reports a 10.7 growth in net sales to 1.61 billion euros, 9.2 per cent rise in operating profit to 415.0 million euros and a 7.1 per cent increase in profit to 330.9 million euros. Russia proved a regional strength during the year and demand for Nokian’s passenger car tyres increased there, while demand “decreased clearly” in Central Europe. Combined output of the company’s plants in Nokia, Finland and Vsevolozhsk, Russia in 2012 was 15.7 million tyres, and the annualised capacity at year-end was 18 million pieces.

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French customs controls – a nod to Titan comments?

France’s minister of industrial renewal seems to have been good to his word; in February he responded to Titan boss Maurice Taylor’s intention to ship “all the tyres France needs” by saying the country would control any such move with a “redoubled zeal”. And it looks as if this is precisely what is happening: French media sources state that on 20 March Montebourg asked the customs service to “to enforce French law, in particular when it comes to tyres produced in conditions that sometimes do not respect environmental and technical norms.” Although Titan International was specifically named in the minister’s instruction, it has been interpreted by many in the context of Montebourg’s recent correspondence with Maurice Taylor.

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On-road performance a focus for Hankook’s Dynapro HP replacement

Hankook describes the SUV segment as “thriving”, and to cater for this class of vehicles it has released a new high performance summer product, the Dynapro HP2. The tyre maker says the HP2 has been developed primarily for on-road use, and a focus has been placed upon the three label criteria plus comfort levels. The original equipment and aftermarket range mainly covers 15 to 19-inch rim diameter sizes, and many fitments are XL marked.

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Subaru supplier awards for 3 US tyre makers

Subaru of Indiana Automotive, the US-based plant that produces some 250,000 Subaru and Toyota vehicles each year, has named three tyre makers as recipients of its annual Quality & Delivery awards. At an awards ceremony on 13 March, the company presented awards to 33 parts suppliers, including Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations and Continental Tire the Americas.

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Lanxess reports strong 2012, notes Q1 2013 weakness

In the introduction to Lanxess AG’s 2012 annual report, Board of Management chairman Axel Heitmann comments that “when Lanxess became an independent company eight years ago, few people believed it would have a successful future. That’s why I can look back on the 2012 fiscal year with particular pride. There is hardly any other year in our history that demonstrates more clearly just how successful we have become since 2005, despite many predictions to the contrary.”

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Wow, a new communication campaign from BKT

The month of March saw BKT roll out a new communication campaign for its agricultural, industrial and OTR tyres. The Indian tyre maker says the new campaign – which is calls ‘WOW’ – represents the company’s corporate image for the near future.

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