Michelin awards six suppliers
Michelin has honoured six suppliers for excellence at a ceremony held at the company’s headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The selected businesses were presented with their respective prizes by the members of Michelin’s Group Executive Committee.
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Richard Lyons resigns from Giti
Dr Enki Tan, executive chairman of Giti Tire, has announced that Stefan Fischer and Corrado Moglia have been appointed as managing directors – Europe. The news follows the resignation of Richard Lyons, who has left the company with immediate effect. Prior to his resignation, Lyons was managing director Giti Tire (Europe) and director - International Sales & Marketing, Passenger Car.
Continue ReadingOxyo-pneus.fr now under Norauto banner
Back in March Norauto, a leading vehicle maintenance chain, and Oxyo-pneus.fr, the fourth largest player in the online tyre market in France, merged their e-commerce activities.
Continue ReadingMichelin pleased to remain a ‘powerful’ voice in the digital arena
There’s no other way to put it. Michelin has been simply dominant in our online branding survey, having won almost every time we have run it in the last decade. With this in mind, it is no surprise that Michelin representatives are pleased to remain a “powerful voice” in the digital arena.
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Dunlop, Vredestein films honoured at AutoVision Awards
Dunlop walked away with a gold OttoCar at yesterday’s AutoVision Awards ceremony in Frankfurt, and Vredestein landed a silver accolade. The biennial awards ceremony took place during the IAA show and saw Goodyear Dunlop Tires honoured for its ‘One Second’ commercial. One Second also won a black award for best direction and best editing. A silver OttoCar award came Apollo Vredestein’s way in recognition of its Vredestein Snowtrac and Quattrac 5 product launch films.
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Pirelli leading global social media tyre brand 2015
2015 marks the fifth year Tyres & Accessories has tracked, ranked and analysed the social media performance of the leading tyre brands. Each year technology has evolved and the depth and breadth of our coverage has grown with it. This year the headline news is that there is a new global winner. Meanwhile, less has […]
Continue ReadingOnline sentiment win ‘a great result’ for Continental
Following the news that Continental has topped this year’s sentiment rankings in our annual online branding survey, company representatives has expressed their delight at the win and their ambition to take both the sentiment and prominence titles next year.
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Goodyear exclusive tyre partner to MAN ProfiDrive
Goodyear reports its selection as exclusive tyre partner to the MAN ProfiDrive driver training programme. As such, all 25 tractor units and trailers used at the main MAN ProfiDrive facility in Germany will be changed over to Goodyear tyres – they will be fitted with FuelMax and KMax tyres along with Omnitrac II mixed-service range. Going forwards, new vehicles entering the MAN ProfiDrive fleet will be fitted from new with Goodyear tyres. Goodyear will take over all tyre service duties and also provide ProfiDrive trainers with tyre training.
Continue ReadingUniwheels shares to join WSE small-cap index
According to a Warsaw Stock Exchange Management Board resolution of 13 August 2015, shares in Uniwheels AG will be included in the sWIG80 index following the trading session of 18 September 2015 as a result of quarterly adjustment. The changes will become effective from 21 September 2015.
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Bert Stellinga takes on Pon Tyre Group role
On 1 September 2015 former Continental Banden Groep managing director, Bert Stellinga, took on a direct role in Pon Tyre Group as director of marketing intelligence and pricing. Jannes Bouman takes over as MD of Conti Banden on an interim basis. Pon Tyre Group owns businesses including Continental Banden Groep, Euro-Tyre and Reifen Gundlach.
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e-jobsheet.com available as a standalone free trial
e-jobsheet.com, the multi-language, digital tablet-driven work exchange for truck, bus and van tyres went ‘live’ on 16 September as a ‘standalone’ system. This entry level offering provides a cloud-based job launch and work management platform within the e-jobsheet subscription, which aims to appeal to all service providers, even those with a single fitter.
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Millbrook buys Test World
Millbrook, the well-known vehicle test, validation and engineering service provider, signed a contract to acquire specialist winter test centre Test World on 14 September. No price-tag has been publically released.
Continue ReadingGoodyear to relocate South African truck tyre production within EMEA
Following yesterday’s announcement that Goodyear is investing 44 million euros to upgrade manufacturing at its Uitenhage, South Africa factory, the firm has offered further clarification about a second proposal to relocate “Medium Radial Truck” (MRT) tyres to other plants across the company’s Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
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Nexen wins Fiat Chrysler OE performance award
Nexen Tyre has been recognized as an “outstanding supplier” by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Nexen received the award at the ‘2014 Outstanding Supplier Quality Award’ held on 15th September, at Imperial Palace Hotel in Seoul, Korea by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA).
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Get a life – and share it with your car
Just a generation ago the humble motor vehicle doubled as a ‘fortress of solitude’, a place the long arm of everyday responsibility couldn’t reach and a haven for those seeking a few moments’ headspace at the start or the end of a busy day. But unreachability is an increasingly scarce commodity these days. The introduction of hands-free systems has transformed the fortress into an office on four wheels for many, and now technology lurking just around the corner will bring our home-life cares to us on the road as well.
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