Landsail has launched an e-commerce portal to enable customers to buy their tyres online. The site means customers can choose tyres, book fitting and buy fully-fitted tyres at landsailtyres.co.uk.
According to the company, registered Landsail dealers are set to benefit from the ease of this instant purchasing and the increased customer reach the portal offers.
Qingdao Nama Industrial Co., Ltd., a Chinese tyre supplier whose brand portfolio (led by NAMA), has established distribution networks in the Middle East and Africa, gave its car and truck tyre ranges a European debut at May’s Autopromotec.
Kumho Tyre (UK) Ltd (KTUK) has appointed Karl Naylor to the newly-formed role of national sales manager. Naylor will lead the car tyre sales team in further growing its business within Kumho’s own network of independent retailers, while simultaneously developing new market channels for the brand. The former Grouptyre MD will report to sales director Kevin Peck.
With Landsail and Grouptyre celebrating their third anniversary this June, the two firms have announced that the partnership is now selling over 1.5 million units a year. Grouptyre became the sole distributor of Landsail in the UK and Ireland when the deal was struck three years ago and, according to both the partners and the unit sales figures, the relationship has gone from strength to strength since then.
Lassa Tyres used Autopromotec as the platform from which to launch three new products as well as for showcasing 21 different types of tyre. Two of the new tyres are winter tyre patterns, namely CompetusWinter 2 and Wintus2. Lassa also presented its new medium commercial tyre, the Maxiways.
As the company said in pre-show previews, Zenises showed its new Z brand run flat programme during Autopromotec. However, the company also announced a further expansion of the new high performance Z tyre range during the first day of its participation at Autopromotec in Bologna.
This year SD-International took an outside booth between Halls 19 and 22 of Autopromotec. According to the company, this meant the contract manufacturer attracted “a constant stream of visitors including established customers and potentially new international distribution partners”. Peter Nicholls, SD-International’s sales and marketing director explained, stating: “With a recently opened new warehouse in Germany enabling swift delivery throughout Europe, we were initially intending to attract increased customer sales in Italy and other parts of Europe.
With International Contract Tyre Manufacturer – Enjoy Tyre making its Autopromotec debut at the 2015 Show in Bologna, the company saw it as “the perfect opportunity” to stage a dedicated European Partners Evening Dinner Event to express “immense appreciation” for the support and enthusiasm of its Rotalla and new Routeway dealers across Europe.
Having working together since 1997, at this year’s Autopromotec Italian distributor Intergomma SpA showed tyres representing the entire Aeolus range. The centrepieces were the two forks of the new ACE2 range, the ultra high-performance SteeringACE2 and high-performance PrecisionACE2.
Linglong reports that the first truck and bus radials produced at the firm’s Rayong, Thailand production plant rolled off the manufacturing line at 9:28 on 28 May 2015. Construction of the truck tyre production line began in June 2014.
Kumho’s latest high-performance offering, the ECSTA HS51, was awarded a ‘Recommended’ rating in the recent test by the highly regarded German consumer magazine, ACE Lenkrad. And, according to company representatives, it was the racetrack as much as the test track that led to this result.
High performance cars call for high performance tyres – and understandably motorists who have invested in an expensive vehicle are among the most discerning of customers. Reluctant to compromise performance or safety, they have tended to favour major global brands such as Bridgestone, Continental, Dunlop, Goodyear, Pirelli and Michelin – but over the years Stapleton’s have been developing and introducing a range of alternatives from their own stable of exclusive brands.
The new Davanti brand, which distributor Oak Tyres launched at Autopromotec in Bologna at the end of May reportedly received “rave reviews” from contacts and customers.
With impressive EU labels boasting strong wet-grip performance and consistently low noise ratings across the range, visitors and exhibitors alike were eager to see the tyres for first time.
Having heard both the consensus and a third party perspective on what the high performance tyre market is and what is happening in it, when Tyres & Accessories asked Neil Hendry, general manager – Passenger Car Tires, Europe for Giti Tire for his and Giti’s view, he offered another perspective again.
Treadsetters is promoting its Hifly HF 805 UHP pattern as “the competitive option”, while at the same time highlighting its production in “an international, technologically advanced production facility which incorporates all the very latest tyre building and design developments”.
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