Awards
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres today hosted Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of West Midlands, Paul Sabapathy CBE at its Birmingham facility, where he presented the company with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of the company’s sales achievements in the international trade category. “It is an honour to receive this award,” said Dunlop Aircraft Tyres chairman Ian Edmondson.
On 7 July tyre manufacturer Hankook announced the winner of the Motor Transport Fleet Engineer of the Year award which was presented to Paul Pinfold from Indesit at last night’s awards ceremony in London. Shortlisted candidates also included Dan Bauckham at Suckling Transport and Darren O’Donnell at Coca-Cola Enterprises. The award, sponsored by Hankook, was presented to Paul Pinfold by Barrie Horrocks, Hankook sales director, TV Personality Chris Tarrant and Sky Sports Presenter Millie Clode.
With the process for the NTDA 2011 Tyre & Fast-Fit Awards (TAFF) Awards is well under way, the names of the finalists can now be revealed. NTDA members were invited to submit nominations in the five categories of the awards and the most popular companies go forward to the final voting stage. The short-listed finalists, by category (* denotes 2010 winners) are:
A team of NASA scientists have been honoured for a development that has the potential to further increase tyre safety. The scientists, which are based at NASA’s Langley Research Center, were named winners of the 49th Annual R&D 100 Award for their work in developing the “SansEC Temperature Sensor.”
The National Tyre Distributors Association (NTDA) has added a new retail-orientated award to its Tyre & Fast-Fit (TAFF) line up. The awards are given in a number of categories (tyre manufacturer, wholesaler, and environmental award to name but three) but 2011 brings with it the introduction of "tyre centre of the year". Retailers will be able to put forward a tyre or fast-fit depot for consideration and those nominated will be subject to a 'mystery shopping' exercise and rated on their performance.
Fast fitter ATS Euromaster has been given HR Magazine’s “Best HR Team – Private Sector” and “Most Effective Use of Internal Communication” awards, recognising a year in which human resources strategy was used to help the company through the difficulties of the recession. The company entered 2008 with severe economic problems and had to close approximately 80 of its smaller service centres. The department used employee forums, road shows, DVDs and training programmes in a three-year strategy designed to make the company communicate better internally and provide a better service for customers. The Awards, run by HR Magazine, were presented to Group HR director Irene Stark and Jane Linnell, Group Internal Communications Manager, in front of more than 500 guests, most of them senior HR professionals from top UK companies.
Bridgestone Corporation is one of 16 companies, and the only tyre maker, to be honoured at this year’s Boeing Supplier of the Year awards. The Electrical/Hydraulic/Mechanical Standards category award is the second consecutive Boeing supplier honour for Bridgestone; the Japanese manufacturer was chosen from a pool of some 17,500 active Boeing suppliers in more than 50 countries around the world.
TyreSafe chairman Stuart Jackson has presented its annual award to PC Shaun McKeown, Forensic Vehicle Examiner for Cumbria Police Collision Investigation Unit, and Sgt Graeme Hodgson from the Roads Policing Unit at the Tyre Recovery Association’s annual dinner held at St Johns Hotel in Solihull on 17 June. Jackson said: “Our thanks go to Cumbria Constabulary for its relentless drive in supporting tyre safety. Not only has it been a great partner behind the scenes but has also been at the fore in many of our initiatives, as well as promoting those of its own.
The winners of the 22nd bfa (British Franchise Association) HSBC Franchisor of the Year Awards, supported by Express Newspapers, have been revealed in front of nearly 300 of the UK's franchise businesses and experts.
Five winners across three categories were selected following 15 finalist presentations to the expert judging panel in May. The winners, revealed at the Heritage Motor Centre, Warwickshire, were felt to bring to life the most entrepreneurial, ethical franchising in the UK today, regardless of business sector, size or geography.
Ten tyre retailers have been given the opportunity to be VIPs at Take That’s sold-out Progress Live tour at Villa Park, Birmingham on 27 June, as Maxxis announces the prize for its latest round of Maxxis Rewards. Northwich Tyre and Autocare; Havers Tyres, in Norwich; P Harrison & Co of Clitheroe; Sandbach Tyre Service; Motorlec Spares of Bury; County Tyres in Stafford; Wrexham’s Minera Tyres & Exhausts; Wheel’n’Tyres of Cheadle and Trade Tyres in Shenstone were the recipients of the tickets.
On June 15, Michelin presented awards to four of its suppliers in recognition of their exceptional contribution in 2010. Held in the tyre maker’s home town of Clermont-Ferrand, the ceremony followed a rigorous assessment of the Michelin Group’s portfolio of suppliers.
In order to recognise and reward fleet operators who fuel the growth of India’s economy, Apollo Tyres has introduced the Apollo Fleet of the Year Awards. Through these awards, Apollo intends to annually honour commercial vehicle fleets that operate in India and encourage the uptake of innovative practices within the sector. The tyre maker says it is “looking to create a platform for information exchange and sharing of best practices within the transportation industry, enabling more and more fleet owners to move up the value chain.” The first awards ceremony, covering four categories, will be held in September 2011.
Lanxess has expressed its pride in receiving one of the inaugural Michelin Supplier Awards. The German specialty chemicals company was one of a number of key suppliers acknowledged by Michelin at an awards ceremony held in France on June 15, and upon receiving the company’s award Dr. Joachim Grub, head of Lanxess’ Performance Butadiene Rubbers business unit stated “we consider it a great honour to be one of the winners of the first Michelin Supplier Award.
Remember how Telford-based tyre wholesale operation Treadsetters beat over 1600 other businesses to the finals of HSBC’s business thinking awards at the end of last year? The firm were regional winners securing a prize of £115,000 reaching the last 18 in the finals in Hong Kong. They may not have won the final overall, but making it to the short list of just 17 companies for the bank’s “International Insights” event in Hong Kong on 5 December is said to have opened up a number of other opportunities. Getting more than a page of coverage in the once of the world’s best-known banks’ annual report isn’t a bad thing either.
Treadsetters features in a full-page photo collage on page 14 of HSBC’s annual report with a short text describing the firm as an example of “creating export opportunities” on the following page. “The journey that [Treadsetters’] tyres make exemplifies the connections that criss-cross the global economy.”
The US military’s Defense Logistics Agency has awarded two tyre supply contracts worth over US$60 million in total to Goodyear and Michelin. The Akron, Ohio-based Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $37,104,838 for aircraft tyres intended for the US Army and Air Force. The contract’s “performance completion” is scheduled for 13 September 2013.
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