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Coverage of this year's UK tyre retail ranking begins with the news that Kerr's Tyres and Elite Garages are the fastest movers in positions 16 to 25. However, Eden Tyre Services maintained its total of 24 centres after several years of consistent growth, remaining in 16th position.
Apollo Tyres, via its Vredestein brand, has hosted its latest ‘Soccer School’ day in Enschede, the Netherlands, in partnership with Manchester United. Held on 8 June, the event welcomed children of Apollo Tyres employees to partake in an exclusive coaching session led by Manchester United trainers, with the aim of nurturing the next generation of footballers in the region.
Last year, Pirelli released the Pirelli P Zero E, which not only features top-level performance in terms of rolling resistance, wet grip and pass-by noise (a collection of outcomes that make the tyre a triple-A product in terms of label performance) but is also a flagship product in terms of sustainability. With sustainability increasingly a mark of premium quality, Tyres & Accessories interviewed Pirelli Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Pierangelo Misani, during the recent The Tire Cologne event in Germany
Sustainability was writ large across Pirelli’s Tire Cologne exhibit, so it was no surprise to hear Pierangelo Misani describe sustainability as “the most important value we are looking for”, adding that “we don't want to be driven by the rules on sustainability, but to be ahead of the rules, to anticipate…sustainability matters.”
Two years have passed since Sailun Group made a memorable first appearance at The Tire Cologne, launching its EcoPoint 3 technology. The company returned in 2024 to make a significant statement about its ambitions for the international market, including Europe. During a large-scale presentation attended by Chairwoman Liu Yanhua and Founder and Honorary Chairman Yuan Zhongxue, Sailun Group introduced its first dedicated Sailun EV tyre, the Atrezzo E-Range. Mr Yuan proudly showcased to a European audience the massive strides China’s tyre industry has made over the past decades.
TyreSafe has announced its “Be a Sport, Check Your Tyres” campaign to coincide with the Euros, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the British Grand Prix, and the Tour de France. TyreSafe aims to inspire drivers to think like elite athletes and make sure their vehicle is operating t peak performance and safety through proper tyre maintenance.
Davanti Tyres has gone from strength to strength since its debut nine years ago, and now Oak Group Holding is introducing a second proprietary brand. Envoy Tyres will give retailers an opportunity to offer their customers a new value segment product that will “deliver exceptional value and quality.” During last week’s The Tire Cologne show, Oak’s Gary Cross showed us the new Envoy range.
When we caught up with GB Tyres on the final day of The Tire Cologne, Graham Hutchinson was very satisfied with the three-day event. The commercial director was impressed by the strong international mix of visitors and reported meeting and talking business with people from countries where GB Tyres isn’t currently active. These contacts may open new doors for the UK-based firm’s own Aerotyre tyre brand as well as for the Challenger truck tyre range, which GB Tyres exclusively distributes in Europe.
Shortly after The Tire Cologne 2024 opened its doors, Maxxis International representatives launched a brace of new high-performance car tyres – namely, the Maxxis HP6 and Victra Sport 6 tyres. Introducing the two new tyres, Ivan Lee, manager of the international sales department, compared the event and Rudy Versteeg, managing director of Maxxis International’s European technical centre explained the technology behind the new products.
Using its broadest possible definition as tyres with rim diameters of 17” or more, the ultra-high performance tyre segment is the only engine of growth within the replacement passenger car and light truck (PCLT) tyre segment in West and Central Europe, the latest data and projections from leading tyre business analyst Astutus Research demonstrates. Having withstood the Covid pandemic and accelerated out of 2021 far quicker than smaller rim diameter segments, the 18”-plus segment especially is going to help bolster what little growth there will be in the PCLT tyre market within the region, while also taking market share from smaller sizes. With the electrification of the car parc bringing EVs with generally higher rim sizes, in addition to existing trends towards larger tyres, such as the popularity of SUVs, demand for tyres in this size segment will rise rapidly over the next few years, Astutus’ projections show (see the graphs on these pages for more details).
Oak Group Holdings, the parent company of Davanti Tyres and wholesaler Oak Tyres, will launch a second proprietary tyre brand at The Tire Cologne next week. Envoy Tyres is styled as a “new, value tyre brand” with a mission to “deliver exceptional value and quality,” and will reach the market with a range of four initial products in the last quarter of 2024. All four products will be available to preview at Koelnmesse (Hall 6.1, Stand E-038; 4-6 June). Oak Group will follow a similar strategy to the successful 2015 launch of Davanti in various markets around the world, and will start to seek key national distribution partners at Europe’s premier tyre expo next week.
Kirkby Tyres, purportedly the largest importer and distributor of off-highway tyres in the UK and Ireland, reports that it is expanding following the acquisition of a new ten-acre site. The new site is situated alongside the company’s current headquarters in Liverpool, UK and features a 200,000 square foot warehouse, according to the company.
The all-time track and race lap records for the Moto2 and Moto3 championships were substantially improved at Catalunya, continuing a streak of broken records broken on Pirelli tyres. The Diablo Superbike slicks helped riders reduce lap times on the Montmelò track.
Remember This? - May 2024: Stories from the past 20 years of T&A... Our monthly magazine column looks back at the biggest news events from the tyre industry five, 10, 15 and 20 years ago. This month's edition looks back to May issues from 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019 for some of the biggest tyre industry news of those months. Click the month and year to access the digital edition of the relevant issue of the magazine from Tyres & Accessories’ expanding digital archive.
Charles Leclerc shook off his Monaco jinx to win his home Monaco grand prix on Pirelli rubber, his first Formula 1 grand prix victory since the 2022 Austrian Grand Prix. Mario Isola – Pirelli director of motorsport, said, “First and foremost, congratulations to Charles Leclerc and to Scuderia Ferrari on their win. We can only begin to imagine what it means to Charles to have triumphed on the streets of the city where he grew up!”
As reported in March, together with two other South Korean firms, Hankook Tire & Technology has developed the country’s first tyre using cord fibre sourced from chemically recycled PET. This tyre is the Hankook iON evo, the company’s first product to wear the ISCC Plus certification logo.
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