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New Goodyear Dunlop Consumer Director Relaunches HiQ Kettering

Career Tracks, News, UK News

Goodyear Dunlop’s new consumer director, Juergen Titz, has made his first public appearance in the role, launching the recently revamped Kettering branch of HiQ alongside UK and Ireland managing director George Rietbergen. Titz suggested that he would open his tenure as consumer director with new strategies to improve the success of the company’s brand range, notably utilising its connection to HiQ. Following his spell as retail director for the fast fit network, a period described by the franchise as extremely successful, Titz was present at the launch to support HiQ’s biggest franchisee Chris Kisby, MD of Easy Tyre & Autocentres.

24th September 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Kwik-Fit Offers Tyres a Hotel Respite during the ‘Off-Season’

For the first time ever Kwik-Fit Fleet is running a special winter tyre programme, and at the time the company is offering corporate customers a hotel facility to store summer tyres when the weather is at its severest. The fast-fit company is urging fleets to plan for winter driving conditions by arranging now for summer tyres fitted to vehicles to be removed in October/November before the first snows, and for £40 a van’s summer tyres can be removed, packed, labelled and stored at Kwik-Fit Fleet’s National Distribution Centre in Northamptonshire. In the spring, the summer tyres will be returned to each customer’s centre of choice for fitment with the winter tyres removed and stored until required again.

7th September 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Dunlop UK Appoints New Consumer Director, New HiQ Head to Follow

Career Tracks, News, UK News

Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Limited has announced that Juergen Titz, currently director of the company’s HiQ retail network, has been appointed as director, Consumer and Motorcycle effective 1 October 2010. He will continue to report to George Rietbergen, managing director – UK and Ireland, and replaces Mark Davison, who is said to be moving to a new opportunity outside of the tyre industry. According to the company, further organisational announcements are due to be made at a later date, following this change. Tyres & Accessories understands that this means Goodyear Dunlop will shortly announce a new face for the HiQ top in response to Juergen Titz’ promotion. A spokesman told T&A that if no replacement is announced by the end of the month, the HiQ team will report directly George Rietbergen.

6th September 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin X One MaxiTrailer Tyres Trialled by Frank Roberts & Sons

Cheshire-based bakery Frank Roberts & Sons has added two new Cartwright Multi-deck trailers fitted with Michelin X One MaxiTrailer tyres to its 70-strong fleet. Having gone to bespoke manufacturer Cartwright looking specifically for a high trailer with extra load capacity, the baker took the decision to trial the X One MaxiTrailer tyres for the improved stability they would provide the 4.5-metre-high trailers.

27th August 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Awarded Los Angeles Transport Contract

Goodyear Tire & Rubber has been awarded a five-year contract to supply tyres and related services to the second largest transit bus fleet in the US. The deal with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority – Metro, for short – places responsibility for some 2,550 buses that cover a total of more than 100 million miles each year in Goodyear’s hands.

18th August 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Bandvulc Employee Best in the UK for Second Year

A Bandvulc employee has gained the highest “City & Guilds Part 1 Retread Process Workshop Practice” mark in UK, the second year in a row that a Bandvulc entrant has laid claim to this award. Every year a number of the company’s employees embark on the City & Guilds course where they have a 12 section syllabus to complete via in-house tuition and no small measure of homework. The course runs from September to April each year and covers all aspects of tyre retreading.

16th August 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Custom Trailer Uses Michelin X One MaxiTrailer Tyre for 370,000km

A custom-made trailer fitted with Michelin X One MaxiTrailer tyres has clocked up an impressive 270,000km with an average of 7 mm tread remaining. In the hands of Devon-based M. R. Horn Transport, the manufacturer estimates that the tyres have another 100,000km of life remaining before they will need to be regrooved. One of a fleet of seven, the trailer is used to carry loads of hay and straw, as well as heavy machinery.

11th August 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Kwik-Fit Appoints New Fleet Sales Director

Kwik-Fit has named Peter Lambert as its new sales director for Kwik Fit Fleet. Effective 2 August, Lambert replace Mike Wise who has decided to “explore other opportunities.” Reporting directly to Kwik-Fit Group Chief Executive Ian Fraser, the focus of the role will reportedly be to build on Kwik-Fit Fleet’s traditional tyre business through further expanding its Service, MOT and repair sales, reflecting the strategy that has been successfully rolled out within its retail operation.

Peter Lambert has 25 years experience in the UK motor industry and during this time he has held a variety of roles with Ford, Toyota and DaimlerChrysler. At DaimlerChrysler he was sales and marketing director for Mercedes-Benz Vans and managing director of Chrysler UK. More recently he was managing director for Rossetts Commercials, the Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle dealer for Sussex and Surrey.

30th July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Halfords Reports Group Revenues Up 9.6%, Flat Autocentre Sales

Halfords has reported that its group revenues (the period from 3 April to 26 July 2010, incorporating first quarter financial performance for the 13 weeks to 2 July 2010) increased 9.6 per cent year-on-year, reflecting the acquisition of Nationwide Autocentres in February 2010. However, like-for-like revenues at Halfords’ Retail and Autocentres business units were down -2.1 per cent and flat respectively. As a result, the Group level, this represented a like-for-like revenue decline of –1.9 per cent.

27th July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

ATS Euromaster to Supply Rental Company’s 4.5k Fleet

Powered access rental company AFI-Uplift has chosen ATS Euromaster to supply and service the tyres across its fleet of nearly 4,400 assets. The estimated worth of the deal is in excess of £120,000 a year. AFI has 18 depots throughout the UK, a 90-strong commercial vehicle fleet and 4,300 access machines. The rental firm says its decision to sign with ATS Euromaster largely because the company has health and safety values and standards matching its own.

21st July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

ATS Euromaster Wins Leicester City Council Deal

Leicester City Council has appointed ATS Euromaster to supply and service the tyres across its fleet of 883 vehicles, which ranges from civic limousines to 32-tonne refuse collection trucks, and includes over 600 vehicles plated at 3.5 tonnes or below. The new contract will see the fleet supplied with a range of Avon, Taurus, Kumho and Encore tyres and follows a ten year period which saw the council’s tyre needs met by a local independent service provider.

Leicester City Council Fleet Manager Stephen Kerry said: “ATS Euromaster’s wide-ranging expertise also means its staff are as skilled at working on cars and vans as they are on heavy trucks. Plus they’re used to servicing the tyres on all manner of specialist municipal equipment, such as loading shovels, mobile access platforms and compact sweepers,” he adds.

8th July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Notts Authorities Sign Vacu-Lug 4 Year Tyre Contract

The Nottinghamshire Authorities Vehicle Consortium has confirmed a four-year fleet tyre management contract with Vacu-lug tyres. From 1 April 2010 Vacu-lug Tyres is responsible for inspecting and replacing tyres on over 1,000 vehicles ranging from car-derived vans to refuse collection vehicles.

David Parton, head of direct services at Gedling Borough Council and chair of the Nottinghamshire Vehicle Procurement Group said: “Vacu-lug Tyres offered a great financial package backed up by proven reliability to undertake this contract. This agreement also takes the pressure off the transport managers as Vacu-lug will be responsible for managing every type of tyre within the fleet range and they have to produce performance management reports on a regular basis. We are all looking forward to working with them over the next four years”.

2nd June 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Supports Gerry Jones European Freight Expansion

Considering an expansion of its services into new European territories, Gwent-based haulier Gerry Jones Transport was faced with the problem of height restrictions that ruled out its trailers’ conventional setup. The company’s solution is to fit the Michelin X One MaxiTrailer as original equipment on five new Wilson curtainside tri-axle trailers. They say that with a lower profile sidewall than traditional 385/65 R 22.5 tyres, the new tyres offer a reduced ride height of 20cm, therefore allowing increased volumes of nine cubic metres within 40-tonne limits. The tyres will therefore allow Gerry Jones to provide six additional services each week in France, Belgium and Holland.

13th May 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Gregory Distribution Renews ATS Euromaster Contract

ATS Euromaster will continue to fit Michelin rubber to Gregory Distribution’s 500-plus trucks and 850 trailers over the next three years after the logistics firm renewed its contract with the service network. ATS-E reports the deal is worth more than £4 million. The relationship between the two companies dates back to the early 1990s, and involves two ATS Euromaster technicians working full-time at Gregory Distribution centres at Cullompton and North Tawton.

7th May 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

HiQ Presents Strong Turnover Growth in 2010 Year to Date

Speaking at HiQ’s franchisee conference, Juergen Titz presented strong turnover and gross profit figures in 2010, suggesting that the network’s “shift from an account driven chain to a retail driven chain since 2008” is bearing fruit. In 2009, turnover was up 11.8 per cent, though the real story is in the breakdown: retail turnover was 21.7 per cent up, while local and national account business was down 6.6 per cent. In 2010 year to date figures, Titz said the company had seen fleet business “picking up”, amassing a 4.7 per cent increase in quarter one and an 11.8 per cent jump in March versus March 2009.

5th May 2010/by Tyrepress Editors