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Founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Akron, Ohio. It is one of the oldest, biggest and best-known tyremakers in the world. Goodyear makes tyres for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, motorcycles, SUVs, racing cars, aeroplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery. Find all the news and analysis you need relating to Goodyear here.

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USW Disputes Analysts Date Claim

(Akron/Tire Review) The United Steelworkers union has attacked a report by Himansho Patel, an analyst with JP Morgan Securities, which suggests a key date in the union’s current strike against Goodyear could be 3 January – the date plant worker medical benefit coverage lapses. USW International Vice President Tom Conway sharply criticized the report. “The facts are that the real cut-off date is in mid-April,” Conway Stated in a press release issued 29 November “COBRA legislation gives you 60 days to make a decision to continue (your health care coverage) and another 45 days before you have to make a payment.” However, workers electing to continue medical coverage under COBRA are still liable for those premiums.

1st December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Swift Handling with Goodyear

Goodyear is claiming its Eagle F1 tyre has won more independent tyre tests in its category than any other tyre, and now Suzuki have chosen the award winning tyre for their latest hot hatch, the Suzuki Swift Sport. Every Swift Sport that leaves the factory will have Goodyear Eagle F1 as standard equipment. Former F1 driver Tiff Needell was thrilled by the handling of the Goodyear Eagle F1 equipped Swift on TV’s 5th Gear recently: “Across the Brecon Beacons I wanted to find out if the Swift was as much fun as a Ferrari or Porsche. The Swift feels alive, it feels frisky” raved Needell. The Swift Sport is fitted with 195/50R16 or 195/45R17 Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD-3 tyres as original equipment.

1st December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Says Plants Pass Quality Audits

(Akron/Tire Review) Trying to counter striking worker questions about the quality of tyres being made by temporary workers at Goodyear tyre plants, the tyremaker said that independent quality audits of three of its tyre plants found the company was in 100 per cent compliance with its quality standards. Goodyear said that NSF Industrial Strategic Registrations audits at its Buffalo, Danville, Va., and Fayetteville, N.C. plants – all being struck by the United Steelworkers – found Goodyear’s systems in complete compliance to international quality systems standards.

1st December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Soopa Toobs Widens Speciality Portfolio

Soopa Toobs, a leading niche product supplier, reports that has widened it speciality offering. The tyre portfolio has been widened to include agricultural, industrial, lawncare, ATV and utility vehicle tyres, from such household names as Carlisle, Trelleborg, Goodyear, Dunlop, Eurogrip and others. The company also opened a new warehouse this year, which increases warehousing capacity by 300 per cent.

30th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Wireless and Paperless Fleet Data Recording from Pneu-Logic

Derbyshire-based Pneu-Logic has introduced a new wireless and paperless fleet data recording system. The company has gone into partnership with Goodyear Dunlop to market and promote the system. Pneu-Inspector is a hand held, easy-to-use, tyre tread depth combined pressure gauge which collects accurate tyre data and uses Bluetooth technology to communicate with a hand-held mobile computer. The result is real-time information, allowing fleet managers to view data about their tyres within seconds of them being inspected.

30th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear and Dunlop star in New Mini Adventure

The Mini was one of the success stories of the UK motor industry over the last five years, and the new Oxford built Mini 2 promises to continue this success. For Goodyear Dunlop, the Mini played a major role in bringing RunOnFlat tyre technology to a wider market, and the new Mini, launched in the UK this week, has Goodyear and Dunlop RunOnFlat tyres as original equipment fitment in all of its 16 and 17-inch wheel options.

30th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Fossit and Thorne Win Shaw Trust Employer of the Year

A Lincolnshire tyre retail chain owner has won recognition for his decision to offer a second chance to young people who fear they are on the scrap heap. The Shaw Trust award recognises businesses that offer training and career opportunities to young people. Fossit and Thorne’s John Shelton now owns the chain of seven tyre and auto centres with his financial director Richard King, but nearly took a wrong turn himself, when he was expelled from school at 15.

28th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Kings Road Tyres to Offer Products Online

Kings Road Tyres began wholesaling over 30 years ago and was one of the few companies that, back then, saw the need for an alternative supply chain into the market. Since that time KRT has developed a nationwide delivery system operating from its own distribution centres throughout the UK and Ireland, using its own fleet of vehicles, and over the years has built a consistent and reliable distribution service. The most recent development at the company sees KRT keep pace with future trends. From the early part of 2007 the wholesaler will offer its products online via the Internet. Full details of this service will be available soon.

27th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Strike to Affect Rubber Prices

Goodyear’s position as a leading global buyer of natural rubber means its ongoing strike dispute with the United Steelworkers is likely to affect natural rubber prices, according to analysts at Deutsche Bank. “Since Goodyear buys approximately 10 per cent of the world production of natural rubber, the strike at the company’s North American plants has consequences on raw material prices,” the analysts wrote, adding: “They are currently producing at 40 per cent of their pre-strike capacity (10 per cent at union plants and 100 per cent at non union plants).”

24th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Dunlop Aims to Close the Gap with Michelin in France

Since Goodyear Dunlop Tire France was founded on 1 January 2004, the group has increased its market share 4 percentage points to 23 per cent of the 32 million-unit strong French passenger car tyre replacement market. The company’s next goal is to close the competitive gap between itself and domestic market dominator, Michelin.

On a global level the size of the three leading players (Bridgestone, Goodyear Dunlop and Michelin) is relatively comparable. In France it is a completely different story. According to French Automotive information source autoactu.com, Michelin holds a 45 per cent market share of car, 4×4 and van tyre sales in France, while Goodyear Dunlop’s 23 per cent puts it in second place.

24th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Facing the Facts

Product News, UK News

In his inaugural speech as chairman of the NTDA Tyre Wholesalers Group (TWG), Ashley Croft did not waste any time in highlighting the issues he wishes to address during his tenure. Referring to certain manufacturers’ use of logistics companies and the place of wholesalers in the UK tyre business, Croft opened a discussion to which there is no quick resolution – calling on manufacturers to resist the urge to increase their direct market control and rather further their relationship with the professional wholesale membership that the TWG represents.

In his own words Ashley Croft is “a great believer in not perpetuating things if they have served their purpose.” Croft commented that there is still “unfinished work to be done” and the fact that he accepted immediate past chairman Peter Gaster’s invitation to take over at the TWG would suggest that Ashley Croft remains a firm believer in the usefulness of the group.

24th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Soopa Toobs Expands

Soopa Toobs says that it has had a busy year, characterised by stiff competition and a difficult marketplace. Despite this, the company has, over the past 18 months, taken on more warehouse and distribution staff and has now fully opened its new warehouse, which increases warehousing capacity by 300 per cent.

22nd November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Union Ends Talks With Goodyear

The United Steelworkers has walked away from contract talks with Goodyear. The USW informed its members that its negotiating team has left Cincinnati – site of the Goodyear/USW master contract talks – and that no new negotiations had been scheduled. “We will go back when the company has something new to show us,” USW spokesman Wayne Ranick said in a Reuters report. Goodyear, for its part, said that its negotiating team would remain in Cincinnati and stood ready to continue bargaining for a new master contract.

So where do the two sides go from here? Deutsche Bank analysts reported that the USW sees Goodyear’s unilateral announcement of a plant closure as “setting an unacceptable precedent, and the bottom line is they aren’t going to budge on this issue.”

20th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

The Prost Legend, Take Two

Between 1985 and 1993, legendary French driver Alain Prost won four Formula One World Championships, (all of them using Goodyear tyres). Thirteen years later, the Prost name tops an international podium again with Alain’s son, Nicolas Prost, winning the Formula Three event at Montmelo, Spain last weekend, the penultimate round of the Spanish F3 Championship. Prost used Birmingham-built Dunlop tyres to carry him to this landmark first win.

20th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

European Commission Awards LIFE-Environment Grant to Goodyear

The European Commission has awarded Goodyear a major research and development grant for development of an ultra low rolling resistance tyre with environmentally friendly resources. The grant of three million euros is part of the European Union’s LIFE-Environment program. The total cost of the project is more than 12 million euros. Goodyear is working in close co-operation with two research partners on this project – the Italian research company Novamont and the German carmaker BMW.

20th November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors