Cooper-Goodyear integration complete? Ryan Patterson leaves Goodyear

Goodyear Tire & Rubber’s Akron headquarters report that the integration of Cooper Tire & Rubber is on-track, the man charged with overseeing the integration, Ryan Patterson, has left the company.

Goodyear appointed Patterson as senior vice president with responsibility for business integration and thus for the acquisition and integration of Cooper in March 2021. According to US trade media, Goodyear has not named a successor and has not commented on whether it wants to do so. Goodyear further reports that customers in North America already have a single point of contact in the interconnected companies and will also be using a single ERP system by the end of this month.