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Goodyear Makes US Reputation Top 20

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.

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Delticom Promotes e-Commerce Tyre Sales

Delticom has begun to promote in earnest its e-Commerce platform in North America. Emphasising the ability of internet-based tyre shops to provide a quick, safe and cheap retail environment, the company hopes to capitalise on the rising prices of its high-street competitors.

tires-easy.com, the growing online store of Delticom is an international leader in the field, the most used in Europe, and has won many awards with largely positive customer feedback. The company believes it can save customers up to a quarter of the price they would have paid elsewhere, while the tyres can be delivered anywhere within the working week. The company has 6000 US partners, all of whom are linked on the website using a well-known internet branded map generator.

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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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Self-Sustaining Research & Development in Conti Matador Machinery

Since Continental’s acquisition of 51 per cent ownership of Matador in early November of last year, the German giant has merged its own Mould and Machine Factory with the Slovakia-based Matador Machinery division. The resulting company is now a world leader in designing and producing machinery and equipment for the whole tire industry, while Conti upped their stake in Continental Matador to 66 per cent on July 1 this year (as reported on tyrepress.com).

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B&J Rocket Announce Contest Winners at Essen

Reifen 2008 was lucky enough to be chosen as the stage for the exciting conclusion of the B&J Rocket Pro Team Competition, which saw retreading professionals using B&J products submit photographs of their teams in action. As if this wasn’t enough, the company also took the time to present their latest innovation, named Rocket Tyre New – a colour refresher for old and used tyres.

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Taiwan Retreader Becomes Latest TRIB Member

Taiwan’s Sinher International Company, Ltd. has become the newest member of the Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau (TRIB). “We are very happy to welcome Sinher International Company to the TRIB family and we know they will enjoy the many benefits TRIB offers to its members worldwide,” said Harvey Brodsky, TRIB’s managing director.

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MAM Software Relocating to Support Growth Plans

MAM Software is a company on the move, literally. The firm has announced it is relocating relocating its headquarters from Deepcar in Sheffield to new premises less than four miles away at Tankersley, just off J36 of the M1. The new office, comments MAM, will provide modern accommodation for the 92 employees currently based in Deepcar and will be furnished to the company’s specific requirements. The Tankersley site will incorporate a dedicated call centre for its Support Services department.

The new premises are integral in supporting MAM Software’s growth plans in the automotive and vertical markets. Managing director, Mike Jamieson, said: “MAM is committed to ensuring the move benefits both our employees and clients. These new premises are much better suited to our type of business. It will give us room for expansion and improvement, and provide a better working environment for all our staff.”

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Goodyear Refunds Customers After “Unsubstantiated” Claims

Goodyear Tyres has issued an apology and offered refunds to Australian customers who purchased the company’s Eagle LS2000 range, following the manufacturer’s unsubstantiated claims about the tyres’ environmental friendliness. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had investigated and found misleading or deceptive the company’s claims that the range was “environmentally friendly”, had “minimal environmental impact”, could “improve fuel economy” and that its production process resulted in “reduced carbon dioxide emissions.

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Goodyear and Agricultural University Create Innovation Award

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Goodyear has collaborated with Shropshire-based Harper Adams University in introducing an award for agricultural innovation. Having provided high performance tyres to the agricultural sector in the UK for 70 years, Goodyear have been engaged with new technology in the sector for some time, making them perhaps the most appropriate company to present such an award.

The award has been introduced to provide a suitable showcase for the knowledge and development of Britons in agriculture, and is looking to find the 2008 Goodyear Farming Innovator. The prize, which will include £3,500-worth of Goodyear farm tyres, is set to be awarded by Harper Adams from a shortlist of three contenders chosen by Goodyear from entries on the mygoodyear website.

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Beissbarth UK Release Online Alignment Tutorial

Automotive servicing equipment manufacturer and distributer Beissbarth UK have released an online tutorial, bringing together the basics of wheel alignment in a Flash animated presentation. The guide provides an interactive education in the subjects of suspension geometry and tyre technology, taking visitors through the terminology particular to each subject with detailed explanations of concepts such as rear wheel thrust, toe adjustment and the “basic rules” of alignment. Each section of the guide provides much of interest for those needing to know more about wheel alignment.

Meanwhile, Beissbarth UK’s concern with educational matters is reflected in managing director Philip Hodges’ website statement on the shortfall in skills within the UK servicing industry. He says that the advances made by the industry in new technology are “not being matched by the availability of suitable technicians and apprentices.”

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Bandengroothandel Mast: Heavy Tyre Development

Netherlands based industrial tyre specialist Bandengroothandel Mast placed a particular emphasis upon its expanded range of very large, heavy tyres for port and quarry duties at Reifen 2008. A key product on display was the large industrial tyre from Tianli, the HarbourMaster. This item, says Mast, attracted much attention from visitors at the show. Company director, Sander Mast, stated: “During the past eighteen months we have extensively increased our activity within the large industrial sector of the market and can provide a very flexible and diverse selection of large patterns and sizes for busy port and quarry and mining environments. The Tianli HarbourMaster is a specialist harbour tyre complete with an L5 compound and extra deep tread which has already been very well received around the world in busy port working environments.”

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Service And Repair Code On-Line Subscription Process Open

Any garage wishing to subscribe to the new Motor Industry Code of Practice for Service and Repair, recently launched by Motor Codes Limited, can do so right now via the user-friendly website http://service.motorindustrycodes.co.uk

To allow businesses plenty of time to prepare for the consumer launch planned for August, the straightforward on-line process describes the code and enables garages to subscribe easily and instantly. Over 5,500 garages had already signalled their intent to subscribe when the code was launched to the trade at the Office of Fair Trading in May and now that the web-based system is live, many more will be encouraged to sign up.

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Bridgestone and Michelin in Disagreement over Tests

French website autoactu.com has reported details of a conflict between major tyre manufacturers Bridgestone and Michelin over the comparative energy-saving properties of Michelin’s Energy range of tyres. Bridgestone presented the results of an experiment testing Michelin’s promise of reduced fuel consumption when using their Energy tyres. The experiment was carried out at the behest of one of its carrier customers and, as a result, involved head-to-head performance comparisons with Bridgestone’s own conventional tyres. The initial results, said Bridgestone, showed no significant differences in the performance of each tyre. However Michelin were quick to dispute this conclusion, citing 70 tests involving tyres from both organisations, where the Michelin tyre came out on top in terms of fuel consumption and criticising the methodology of the tests, in which the company was not involved.

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Grouptyre Rebrands as National Operation

Group Tyre, which markets itself as the UK’s leading independent tyre wholesaler, has announced that it is rebranding itself as Grouptyre as part of its strategy to achieve more market share. Over the next two years Group Tyre plans to evolve from a successful multi-regional buying group with a national accounts sales force into Grouptyre, a national brand that is recognised as the major player in tyre distribution. One of the first things to change has been Grouptyre’s website – www.grouptyre.co.uk. According to the company, the new website provides retailers with real time stockholding of the entire Grouptyre wholesaler members. There’s also a locator for retailers wishing to make contact with their nearest tyre distributor member.

“We are committed to increasing market penetration and part of our strategy is to reinvigorate the brand by giving it a national face. As Grouptyre, with a fresh, new corporate identity, we aim to project ourselves as a modern, professional and progressive company that fully understands its market and delivers the best opportunities to customers, suppliers and employees,” managing director Peter Harries commented.

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New Improved OTR Website

OTR Tyres Ltd has upgraded and improved its website in order “to reflect the expanded range of products, services and global operations” says the Alfreton-based company. The new look site contains 140 pages with easy, “drop down” navigation to guide visitors to the relevant areas of interest.

The site is produced in-house by OTR’s dedicated, IT team and, as well as news and information, the site allows customers secure access to their TotalTyreLogic tyre management records, factory production schedule and tyre information.

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