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Further Job Losses Imminent, Says Plimsoll Report

The phrase “consolidation period” always sounds like a harbinger of doom for workers in any industry, so a new report on the UK tyre industry suggesting that this is exactly what lies ahead in the months to come can only suggest the onset of job losses in the sector.

The third annual Plimsoll Analysis, presented this week, suggests that the industry will lose 2373 jobs, in line with the UK economy’s “prolonged and bumpy landing”, which – a British Chamber of Commerce survey suggests – will see unemployment rise by 300,000. The report individually analyses the UK’s leading 200 companies, assessing their chances of survival and possible precautionary measures in the lacklustre market conditions.

15th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Makes US Reputation Top 20

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Forbes magazine has bestowed the honour of being named one of the Reputation Institute’s most respected American companies upon the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Goodyear is 16th on the publication’s list, details of which can be found on the publication’s website.

The RI’s criteria for ranking include the organisation’s “seven dimensions of reputation”, which comprise products/services, innovation, workplace, citizenship, governance, leadership and performance. The ratings were generated by the RI’s Global Pulse consumer opinion survey, while the company’s score of 76.0 shows an impressive 7.54 increase on 2007’s score. Goodyear is the sole representative of the tyre manufacturing industry on the list.

11th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental Reveals Top Ten Bumpiest UK Roads

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Continental has released the results of a survey of British drivers to find the bumpiest roads in the UK. Station Road in Scholes – a town east of Leeds – received the dubious honour of first place in the survey. Phrases like “giant crater”, “dangerous to cyclists and drivers” and “like the surface of the moon” (perhaps not that last one) abounded in the survey, reporting the state of Station Road. The crater in question rivals that featured in the Monorail episode of The Simpsons into which Marge drove, representing a depth greater than the height of the legal maximum height of a speed hump.

The criteria for inclusion in the list comprised the length of time road had been in poor condition, how many times it had been reported to local authorities, the potential damage it could cause to vehicles, potential danger to road users, and the size of potholes/damaged areas in relation to road. All of the roads were verified by the campaigning website fillthathole.org.uk. According to a recent Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey, there are currently over one million potholes across the country, but worryingly there is a shortfall in the budgets needed to fix them of over £1 billion and an 11 year backlog of maintenance work. Since January 2008 alone, 4,217 new hazards have been reported to the aforementioned pothole campaigning site.

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9th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

73% of eBay Van Tyres “Potentially Unsafe”

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A Continental Tyre Group survey of van tyres bought online has found that the vast majority of sampled tyres were either poorly marked or potentially unsafe. Peter Robb, Continental product manager explained the process: “Through an outside agency we randomly purchased 15 tyres over a period of 3 months. We were very conscious that the test be as fair as possible so the tyres are representative of 7 manufacturers, including Continental and were bought from different areas of the country and for different tyre sizes appropriate to vans”.

Once purchased the tyres were examined by Continental’s technical tyre consultants, entyrety, The findings showed that whilst each of the tyres were within legal limit for tread depth in other respects they did not comply with the regulations which came into force in June 1995 and many of the tyres were in poor condition.

9th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

RAC Foundation to Lead NTDA Tyre Ageing Campaign

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The RAC Foundation, one of the best-known and most influential motoring organisations in the UK, has agreed to lend its support to a tyre safety campaign initiated by the NTDA to highlight the potential dangers of over-age tyres. The thrust of the campaign will focus on the need for drivers of older, low mileage vehicles to have their tyres checked for signs of age-related deterioration. Various cases reported in news sources in the UK and overseas, testify that tyre failures have resulted in fatal and serious injury accidents in the UK and overseas.

1st July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Unipart Top In Workshop Survey

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Unipart Automotive has been voted the most recommended brand for braking in an independent aftermarket survey about brand perception that ranked Unipart brakes as the number one choice by Workshops. The survey listed six leading aftermarket brands and asked respondents what braking brand they would recommend to their customers for fitment on a vehicle; overwhelmingly 59 per cent stated the Unipart brand. GiPA, the aftermarket intelligence organisation, conducted the poll and surveyed workshops including independent garages, auto centres, national and independent fast fits.

Unipart Automotive has launched an advertising campaign to raise awareness of its braking range and the fact that all service products, supplied by Unipart Automotive, have an Original Equipment matching quality guarantee and meet the requirements of Block Exemption. This allows independent garages to carry out servicing and maintenance on a car without invalidating the vehicle manufacturer’s warranty, provided the garage follows the vehicle assembler’s schedules.

18th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Kicks Off Tyre Pressure Campaign at Eurotunnel

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Following on from its 2007 campaign, Michelin’s latest “Fill up with Air” roadshow kicks off at the Folkestone Eurotunnel Terminal on 1-2 July. Motorists travelling to France passing through the terminal will have the chance to get a free tyre pressure check and advice on their tyres from Michelin technicians before setting out on their journey.

This Folkestone event is the start of a UK-wide roadshow designed to educate motorists on the importance of correct tyre pressures. Over two days in 2007, a similar Michelin survey at Eurotunnel concluded that 83 per cent of vehicles checked by the technicians had under-inflated tyres and a staggering 63 per cent were dangerously under-inflated.

16th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Kwik-Fit Fleet Encourages Participation in Road Risk Survey

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Britain’s largest independent fast-fit operator, Kwik-Fit Fleet, is participating in a major occupational road risk management survey in conjunction with RoadSafe, the organisation responsible for managing the Government’s ‘Driving for Better Business’ programme. The survey was officially launched at the Fleet Business Show at the Business Design Centre, London on April 29. The survey’s aim is to gain information on what actions senior managers with responsibility for fleet operations and the use of privately-owned cars on business have taken to reduce their organisations’ risk exposure in the light of the implementation of the month’s Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act in early April.

Mike Wise, head of Kwik-Fit Fleet, said: “The importance of companies managing occupational road risk has continued to increase in recent years. As a business we undertake hundreds of thousands of safety checks on vehicles and often find that cars and vans are not in tip-top condition. A failure by companies and their employees to ensure a vehicle’s safety-related equipment is in a first-class condition could be the difference between life and death.

30th April 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Kwik-Fit Fleet Reports 20% More Tyre Safety Checks

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Last year, Kwik-Fit Fleet carried out more than 220,000 vehicle inspections – up from 188,000 in 2006 – and this year the company expects its mobile technicians to undertake more than 250,000 tyre safety checks in company car parks or at a driver’s location of choice.

Initial tyre checks result in about 25 per cent of vehicles inspected requiring attention, usually tyres being replaced because they are illegal. Extrapolated across the UK’s three million-strong company car and approximately one million van parc it means that up to 800,000 vehicles could be running on at least one unsafe tyre.

30th April 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Four US Michelin Plants Awarded for Workplace Safety

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Four of Michelin’s US plants were recognised for excellence in worker health and safety at the Rubber Manufacturers Association’s (RMA) annual meeting, held April 13. Michelin’s US6/CPV facility in Greenville, South Carolina, received an Excellence award. Three Michelin plants – in Anderson and Spartanburg, South Carolina and Dothan, Alabama, received Improvement awards.

“Michelin takes great care to provide employees with a safe work environment,” said Dan Merchant, director of asset protection and safety. “It’s nice to have the industry recognise our safety results, which we have been able to achieve thanks to the measures put in place and the hard work of each of our manufacturing employees.”

25th April 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama, AAA, RMA Team up in US to Promote Safety

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In the US the Automobile Club of Southern California, Rubber Manufacturers Association, California Highway Patrol and Yokohama Tire Co. are joining forces during National Tire Safety Week to encourage drivers to check their vehicle’s tyre pressure in order to save fuel and increase safety.

The groups are distributing 13,500 “tyre tread depth cards” to consumers this week through the Auto Club’s local offices and Roadside Assistance providers. The Auto Club and RMA are also distributing “Tire Smart” brochures in AAA offices. AAA Approved Auto Repair facilities also will check tyres and pressure free of charge for members and the public during the week.

24th April 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Mini the Top Movie Car Ever, Says Uniroyal

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The three Mini Coopers from the 1969 box office hit ‘The Italian Job’ have been named the top movie cars of all time in a survey conducted by Uniroyal tyres. The popular Mk1 Austin Mini Cooper S’s in British blue, white and red beat off over twenty other nominees to take the number one spot in a poll of over 2,000 movie fans.

KITT, David Hasselhoff’s automotive sidekick in the early 80s television series ‘Knight Rider’, came in at number two, followed closely by James Bond’s glacier-friendly Aston Martin Vanquish from ‘Die Another Day’. The Volkswagen Beetle Herbie, also known as the Love Bug, crept into fourth place, while Dr Emmett Brown’s ever so slightly modified De Lorean DMC-12 from ‘Back to the Future’, took fifth.

17th April 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Time To Hit The Acquisition Trail?

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Hardly a day goes by without some tale or other of economic woe – the sub prime crisis, falling stock markets worldwide; all the indicators suggest that this is a time to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm. However, analysts Plimsoll Publishing have just produced their annual acquisition survey of the Tyre Manufacturers & Distributors industry and their message is that, for the strongest companies in the market, this could be the ideal time to buy a competitor.

26th March 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

What Does Your Car Colour Reveal?

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Does the colour of the car you drive say anything about your chosen profession? Do the police have a bias for blue or undertakers have a predisposition for black?

Car insurance expert elephant.co.uk looked at data from over one million drivers to find out if particular professions prefer certain colour cars and discovered that you just might be able to tell someone’s job by looking at their car.

Blue proved to be the most popular colour all round with a quarter of motorists choosing the calming shade for their vehicle. However, living up to their ‘boys in blue’ name, the colour proved even more popular with the police who are over 7 per cent more likely to drive a blue car than the average motorist.

25th March 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

UK Drivers Amongst the Least Attentive to Tyre Pressure – Michelin

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Michelin’s year long study into tyre pressure has revealed that the proportion of cars on British roads with tyres at an incorrect pressure could be as high as 80 per cent, and the pressure in the tyres of half of all cars is incorrect to an extent that renders the vehicle dangerous to operate and an accident risk.

The French manufacturer checked the tyre pressure of thousands of vehicles across 27 European Union countries during its ‘Fill up with Air’ campaign, and results indicate that the UK, ranked 25th out of 27, was near the bottom of the pile in terms of ensuring correct tyre pressure – only Greece and Latvia faired worse. And not only is road safety being jeopardised by our sloppy indifference – major cost implications follow incorrect tyre pressure through increased fuel consumption, a factor that also impacts on our environment.

25th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

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