Modern Tyres named Northern Ireland tyre retailer of the year

Family-run business Modern Tyres has been named Northern Ireland tyre retailer of the year. Northern Ireland’s largest independent tyre retail chain, which is also the ninth largest in the UK, employs over 200 people in 30 depots across the province, and also has 10 depots in the Republic, after acquiring Hanover Tyres in July last year.The company will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year.

As well as expanding following the acquisition of Hanover Tyres, the firm also acquired three ATS outlets on Boucher Road and Castlereagh Road in Belfast, as well as on Moira Road in Lisburn, at the end of 2012.

The inaugural Irish Auto Trade Awards took place at Dublin’s Citywest Hotel at the weekend of the 8th and 9th November 2014.