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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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Pirelli Reaffirms Positive Guidance

Pirelli & C SpA has reaffirmed its guidance for “significant improvement” in full-year results compared with 2004. The news follows strong nine-month results, which saw net profits rise 34 per cent. Revenue in the first nine months of 2005 was 2,707 million euros, an increase of 9.8 per cent compared with 2,466 million euros on 30 September 2004. EBITDA was 412 million euros (15.2 per cent of sales), an increase of 17.7 per cent from 350 million euros in the first nine months of last year.

17th November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli North America Receives ISO Certification

Rome, Georgia-based Pirelli Tire North America (PTNA) has received ISO 9001:2000 accreditation and ISO/TS 16949:2002 technical specification. Guy Mannino, PTNA’s president, was informed at the recent SEMA Show in Las Vegas that the company had been awarded the coveted certification.

15th November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Steps Into Russian Retail

Goodyear has taken its Premio franchise to Russia, opening its first store on 10 November. According to a Kommersant report, the company hopes to sign up around a dozen stores in Podolsk, Kalinigrad, Omsk, Rostov, Volgograd and other Russian towns before the end of the year. The establishment phase of the Premio chain is expected to be completed by 2008 Konstantin Alexeev, retail development manager at Goodyear Russia told the newspaper. The company reportedly invests $20,000 to $30,000 in the launch of each store, Alexeev explained.

By establishing a retail presence, Goodyear appears to be attempting to catch up with its competitors. Michelin, Bridgestone and Pirelli launched their projects as far back as 1999. Nokian Tyres set up its Vianor chain, while earlier this Autumn Amtel acquired more than 40 having bought out three Moscow retailers – Rosshina, Koleso, Profil.

14th November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Fast-Fit Receives Pirelli Accreditation

Fast-Fit, a leading East Anglian tyre and exhaust specialist with branches across the region, has become one of the largest fast fit companies to achieve the Pirelli Driver accreditation.

All eleven branches of Fast-Fit, which sells and fits batteries, tyres and exhausts, have achieved the ‘Driver’ standard from the world famous Pirelli brand, after successfully meeting all elements of the technical audits.

9th November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Eagle F1 Wins Again

Goodyear’s ultra-high performance Eagle F1 GS-D3 has been awarded first place in a test of 11 top competitors conducted by the editors of Car & Driver. The F1 was praised for its strong wet performance and for have dry handling characteristics comparable with the best dry performers. Continental’s ContiSportContact 2 took second place earning compliments for its “very good” performance in the wet. Yokohama’s Advan Neova AD07 took third place and was praised for its grip: “If you’re looking to cut the quickest lap times while using a street tyre, this is the one to have,” the magazine reported.

8th November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Claims Majority of Fitments at SEMA Show

Pirelli is claiming that it has exhibited the most OE fitments at this year’s SEMA exhibtion. For example, one of the stars of the Ford exhibit was the Ford GTX1 roadster and to celebrate the introduction of this topless GT concept, both of the GTs on the stand were shod with 19-inch Pirelli P Zero Rossos. Also at the Ford display, 19-inch P Zero Neros could be found on the all new Fusion.

7th November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Kazakstan President Visits InterKomShina

International News, Product News

The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has visited InterKomShina JSC in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan. This company is engaged in the production of tyres for light vehicles and road freighters, agricultural machines and special equipment. InterKomShina claims to be the only tyre manufacturer in central asia.

3rd November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli’s John Nixon Retires

Pirelli UK industrial director, John Nixon, will retire at the end of December after 37 successful years with the company. Having started as a Technical Clerk in 1968 at the company’s Cummersdale factory, Nixon steadily rose through the ranks to become the industrial director, responsible for a 1000 strong workforce. Wolfgang Meier will take over as industrial director.

1st November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Strengthens its Global Footprint

The Pirelli group’s tyre division is consistently moving towards achieving its expansion plans. Under the guidance of Francesco Gori, arguably the architect of the Pirelli Tyre Company as we know it today, the company has built a MIRS factory on a greenfield site in Georgia, Rome, as a way of making a new start in the US; the world’s largest tyre market. In the meantime Pirelli’s bread and butter sizes are finding their way into the US from another new, ultramodern factory in Salvador, Bahia – a factory that also makes Pirelli a strong competitor in this region. In all probability Pirelli will establish a remarkable position in what is not only the largest tyre market in the world, but also one of the most important.
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21st October 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Normal Production Truck Tyres Win In Pharoah’s Rally

After an impressive performance at the beginning of the year in the Paris-Dakar rally Pirelli truck tyres strengthened their reputation last weekend by winning the Rally of the Pharaohs, one of the most demanding desert rally-raids in the international calendar.

12th October 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Opens First Tyre Plant In China

Pirelli executives Marco Tronchetti Provera and Francesco Gori have attended the opening ceremony of the company’s first tyre plant in China. The joint venture facility is split 60:40 between Pirelli and the Yinhe Group (Roadone Tyres) respectively, with the Italians planning to gradually increase their share in the coming years. The new plant’s is about half a million radial truck tyres, a number that will soon be raised to 1.2 million tyres per year. The tyres produced in the new truck tyre factory will be sold in China, South East Asia and Australia.

12th October 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Raises Tyre Prices

As a consequnce of the continuing cost increase of the sector’s key raw materials and energy, Pirelli Tyre has announced an increase of its list prices, differentiated by area and segment.

The increase will be 4.5 per cent in Europe and North America for car, SUV and commercial vehicle tyres, and all Group brands; and 6 per cent worldwide for all Motorcycle Tyre brands.

10th October 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Wins In Japan

Marcus Gronholm’s Pirelli-equipped Peugeot 307 WRC, has won the all-gravel Rally Japan, round 13 of the World Rally Championship. The event came to a dramatic finish when the Subaru of Petter Solberg, which had led from the beginning, retired through a steering mechanism failure. Pirelli-shod cars dominated the action throughout all three days, setting 25 fastest times out of 26 stages with all three partner teams (Subaru, Peugeot and Mitsubishi). Gronholm, who took the lead when Solberg retired, notched up Pirelli’s 140th World Championship rally victory.

3rd October 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin and Pirelli Top Online Brands (2005)

Online Brand Equity

Certain big names like Microsoft and IBM might be synonymous with information technology, but what about tyre brands? Which ones are the most powerful online and why? Tyres & Accessories asked Internet analysts Envisional to delve deeper into the fast moving world of e-marketing to exclusively produce the following rankings.

28th September 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear’s UG7 Wins ADAC Test

ADAC, the German automotive association, has published its new winter tyre test results. Engineers tested tyres in sizes 175/65 R14T and 195/65 R15T – and Goodyear’s Ultra Grip 7 was declared the winner in both categories.

In the smaller size Bridgestone’s Blizzak LM 20 and Pirelli’s Snowcontrol followed Goodyear, as did Semperit’s Wintergrip. Bringing up the rear was Matador.

22nd September 2005/by Tyrepress Editors