PCL has reported excellent feedback from Reifen visitors viewing its world-leading portfolio of tyre inflation products. UK-based PCL welcomed representatives of tyre shops, mobile tyre vans, garages, car dealers, fleet and transport managers from Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Thailand, Germany, Poland, Korea and Iceland. Substantial orders were placed for the EC-approved Airforce – PCL’s brand new generation of mechanical handheld air line gauges.
(Akron/Tire Review) Delticom AG, Europe’s leading online tyre seller, opened a new bilingual online store in Canada. The new online effort is the company’s second direct-to-consumers online venture in North America; it already operates www.tires-easy.com. Delticom said the new site will offer some 60 tyre brands and 10,6000 SKUs. Its U.S. business also includes mounting, balancing and installation through some 8,500 “tyre installation partners.” Based in Hanover, Germany, Delticom said it operates 60 online tyre stores in 25 countries.
Last December the organisers of the China International Tire Expo (Citexpo), staged a successful tyre show with record breaking figures in terms of visitors and exhibitors. According to the organisers, there’s a good chance that at the next Citiexpo (in Shanghai this September) this success will be repeated. Wilko Fong and Joe Ho from the organising company explain why: During the Reifen exhibition in Germany – the world’s biggest tyre exhibition – they actively contacted potential exhibitors and have introduced themselves to potential visitors with their own stand in Essen. You may think that the Reifen show in Germany is impressesive with 470 exhibitors and 17,000 visitors – Citexpo has already reached a third of this with last year’s show.
In October 2005, the Beissbarth Automotive Group was bought by the Société Générale Capital Europe and Mark Hüsges (35) became the Group’s CEO. So, with a new owner and new management – where does Beissbarth go from here?
Says Mark Hüsges: “The restructuring phase of the last 2 – 3 years is now behind us, and I now view developments as positive, though we are still facing a lot of work. The company is new, and its re-alignment will be new as well. We have succeeded in optimising our quality management, re-organising our service activities, installing market-orientated product management and, based on experience going back for many decades, initiating innovative technical development in all Beissbarth’s product sectors.”
“Business is going really well. We are changing over to a new warehouse and on 2 May we became the official importer of Double Coin truck tyres across Europe,” says Inter-Sprint’s Wim Zoet, summing up all the recent developments at Dutch wholesaler.
Kyoto Japan Tire Corp. Ltd. was right on time to launch two new products at this year’s Reifen exhibition. The Chinese manufacturer which is headquartered in Japan (and used to have production facilities in Japan as well) was exhibiting in Germany for the second time now and has put a lot of faith into its two new tyres. First there is the “Kyoto Maxima 714” which will be settled in the high performance tyre segment, explains Dagmar Ochmann-Klimkowski who is running Kyoto’s European Office.
A lot has happened for Slovakian tyre manufacturer, Matador, since it first exhibited under its new name back in 1994. Back then a 3×3 metre cubicle sufficed, this year Matador covered about 200 square metres of floor space in Hall 3. It is no coincidence that this is the case because about 10 years ago the Slovakian manufacturer founded its distribution subsidiary on the German market under the leadership of Dr Miroslav Rosina. Since then Germany has become one of the most important markets for Matador.
The European Commission has cleared the acquisition of Motorola’s automotive electronics systems business by Continental AG under the EU Merger Regulation. The Commission concluded that the proposed transaction would not significantly impede effective competition in the European Economic Area (EEA) or any substantial part of it.
ECI International are regular exhibitors at Essen and this year the company had no fewer than three of its own shows to promote – Tyrexpo Africa (Johannesburg, September 2006), Brityrex International (Manchester, May 2007) and Tyrexpo Asia (Singapore, September 2007).
So how was the Essen exhibition? ECI International managing director Paul Farrant was delighted with the response, saying: “Reifen 06 was tremendous for us, as it always has been in the past, but this time, with three shows to promote, we were kept busy from start to finish.”
(Akron/Tire Review) All 32 team buses shuttling players to matches for the 2006 FIFA World Cup will ride on Continental brand bus radials. Continental AG is one of three primary sponsors of the World Cup, having paid 40 million euros for the privilege.
Goodyear reports that it is proud to be the sole supplier of RunOnFlat tyres to Ford in the ramp-up to the launch of the manufacturer’s latest MPVs: the Galaxy and the S-MAX. In the design of its new cars, Ford has paid great attention to detail. The S-MAX matches sports style and driving pleasure with flexible and spacious accommodation. The larger, more luxurious Galaxy is slightly bigger than the model it replaces.
Renault Trucks and Continental Tyres have announced the winner of their joint World Cup Prize Draw, which took place at this year’s CV show in Birmingham. The promotion, held on the Renault Trucks stand in conjunction with Continental Tyres, Official Sponsor of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™, attracted over 1500 entries.
During the Essen show Bandag representatives announced that Reifen Wondraschek had become one of its members. Company representatives said they “greatly appreciate the knowledge and expertise built up by Reifen Wondraschek since its foundation back in 1935.” The company specialises in the distribution and retreading of tyres across the Austrian market. The company’s highly trained personnel operate from five service stations.
At the Reifen ‘06 exhibition in Essen, Germany, Bandag has announced a strategic partnership with one of Austria’s best-known tyre companies, Reifen Wondraschek. The agreement with the tyre specialist from Linz reinforces Bandag’s penetration of the region, bringing its tyre products and services much closer to the existing and potential customer base.
Business analysts Forbes have published their “Global 2000 High Performers” list, featuring “companies that stand out among the rest.” Germany’s Continental AG is featured in the “consumer durables section” and makes the list at number 403. It is the only European company in the top six of this category.
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