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Known for its style, speed and performance marketing values, Pirelli & C. S.p.A. is a multinational company based in Milan, Italy, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1922, with a temporary privatization period by the consortium led by the Chinese state-owned enterprise ChemChina.

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2007 TAFF Awards Nominations Announced

Members of the NTDA have voted for their favourite companies in the six categories of the prestigious TAFF Awards and the winners will be announced at the TAFF Awards Dinner in Manchester’s Palace Hotel on 2 May. The nominations are:

Tyre Manufacturer of the Year
-Bridgestone UK Ltd
-Continental Tyre Group Ltd
-Goodyear/Dunlop Tyres Ltd
-Kumho Tyre
-Michelin Tyre plc

Product Innovation Award

-Bridgestone UK Ltd
-Continental CS Easy
-Goodyear/Dunlop Tyres
-Michelin Tyre plc
-Rema Tip Top UK Ltd

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Tyre Company CEOs Endorse Environmental Research Programme

The Chief Executives from leading tyre companies in North America, Japan, Korea and Europe met on 9th February in Los Angeles, to review progress and set a forward-looking agenda for their global research program dealing with potential environmental and health impacts of their products.

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Inter and Pirelli Salute China in Verona Stadium

On the occasion of the Chievo-Inter football match, the word “Pirelli” on Inter’s uniforms was translated into Chinese characters. Pirelli and F.C Internazionale return to a tradition of “speaking Chinese” for the third time in a little more than a year. On the occasion of the “Serie A” championship challenge between Chievo Verona and Inter, the word “Pirelli” on the T-shirts of the “Nerazzurri” team was translated into Chinese characters. With this initiative, Inter and Pirelli aim to salute once again the numerous fans that follow the “Nerazzurri” from the Far East as well.

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Pirelli Control Tyre for Australian GTP

The Australian Performance Car Championship (GTP) is expected to be a more closely contested competition following the announcement that all cars in the series will be required to race on identical Pirelli “control” tyres. Series Organiser Craig Nayda announced that Pirelli motorsport distributor Trofeo Motorsport has won a tender to provide tyres and event technical support to GTP for the next three seasons.

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P Zero Official Grand Am Tyre

Pirelli Competizioni, who are celebrating their century of participation in motor sport during 2007, have released details of an agreement reached with Grand-Am, under which the Italian manufacturer will supply its P Zero Racing tyres to teams competing in the Grand Am Championship during the three seasons between 2008 and 2010. This agreement covers both the Daytona Prototype and GT categories of the Grand Am series.

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Aiming for Perfection

Every year 4.3 million car and SUV tyres come out of Pirelli’s vast Carlisle factory located just south of the Cumbrian capital. Export markets take between 75 and 80 per cent of this number, and Pirelli’s Carlisle products also feature as OE equipment on some of the world’s most respected automotive brands. In a recent interview with the Cumberland News, Pirelli’s head of operations and Carlisle and Burton-on-Trent, Wolfgang Meier, spoke about the operation he overseas.

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Pocket Rocket Tyres from Metzeler

Some motorcycling purists may scoff at the motor scooter with its tiny engine capacity and decidedly un-macho appearance as little more than an appliance on wheels. Perhaps at best an admission of its merit as a cheap means of getting from A to B may grudgingly be granted. But scooters have developed in leaps and bounds since the days of the earliest Vespas and their kin, and today’s maxi-scooters provide a much more comfortable ride and than previous generation offerings, making them suitable, perhaps even enjoyable, to ride both around town and out on the open road.

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Lights….Camera….Tyres

Pirelli have made a second foray into the world of filmmaking with their new short film ‘Mission Zero.’ The ten-minute film, whose debut screening recently took place in New York, stars Uma Thurman as the target of relentless assassins who are determined to kill her for apparently no reason.

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Ceat Sets Out Expansion Plans

Ceat Limited has outlined a £76 million capital expenditure plan spread over the next three years. The plan includes setting up of two greenfield plants, one for radials and the other for speciality tyres. This is a more ambitious plan than previously reported, as the company was expected to establish a single plant where all the above-mentioned activities would take place.

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Audi R8 to Wear New P Zero

Pirelli’s new P Zero has been selected as the OE tyre for the soon to be released Audi R8. The new mid-engine Audi flagship is the company’s first serious competitor for the likes for the Porsche 911, and therefore Pirelli are understandably pleased to be chosen as the company that, so to speak, will make the rubber hit the road.

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Tronchetti Provera Denies Involvement in Espionage

Marco Tronchetti Provera, Pirelli chairman and former chairman of Telcom Italia, has issued a strongly worded statement published by Italian Daily La Stampa on 21 January stating that he had never acted illegally in his professional career, nor ordered anyone else to do so.

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Road Legal Race Technology

An old adage says that idle hands do the devil’s work, but Pirelli have been far from idle with their Diablo – Spanish for devil – range. During the last twelve months the legendary tyremaker and official tyre supplier to the World Superbike Championship (SBK) has released two new street-legal offerings under the Diablo label.

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Pirelli Chosen as BRC Control Tyre

Pirelli has been selected as the control tyre for the Tesco 99 Octane MSA British Rally Championship (BRC). A three-year agreement between Pirelli Tyres and the BRC will lead to, in the view of the BRC, a more equal competition in which the driver’s talent and ability can be showcased during the six-round championship. The decision to switch to a single tyre supplier comes after a control fuel was successfully introduced at the start of the 2006 season.

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Former Pirelli Chairman Dies

Pirelli has reported the death of Former chairman Leopoldo Pirelli. Pirelli, who passed away at his home in the northern Italian seaside resort of Portofino, was 81.

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