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KRT’s £5 million agricultural inventory

Major agricultural tyre supplier to the UK market, Kings Road Tyres boasts a £5 million inventory of agricultural tyres, making it the country’s foremost trade supplier for this specialist sector, according to KRT. The wholesaler is the official wholesale distributor for major manufacturers Michelin, Firestone, Trelleborg and Goodyear as well as being the exclusive UK wholesaler of both the Taurus and Jetire brands, and its private brand range of Kingstone brand tubes. In addition the line-up has recently been further extended by the addition of Kleber in 2011.

16th January 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

TGI sells commercial operation to Bentley Truck Services

TGI divested its holdings in its commercial service division, Commercial Tire Service, Inc. (CTS) through a sale to Bentley Truck Services, Inc. “Our aggressive growth plans and commitment to further expanding our footprint in Latin America and the Caribbean has been the driving force behind TGI’s success. After much consideration we have decided to channel our resources and focus on the continued development of our wholesale distribution network”, said Tony Gonzalez CEO of Tire Group International. Gonzalez also stated his gratitude to the Miami-Dade County and the surrounding communities for their patronage and support of CTS over the past six years.

13th January 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

More fuel prices gloom

Bad news for hauliers and logistics companies from RMI Petrol, as their fuel price monitoring system, BIG OIL, has seen the steepest and fastest ever rise in wholesale costs over the festive period. From Monday 19 December to Thursday 5 January the cost of diesel increased by nearly 4.50ppl and unleaded petrol by as much as 5.00ppl with 20 per cent VAT to be added.

9th January 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental names new passenger car tyre sales director

Continental Tyre Group Ltd has named Phil Scanlan as its new passenger sales director. Scanlan takes over from Angus Smith who left the company after 10 years in the position to become commercial director with Micheldever Tyre Services at the end of 2011. Scanlan has been with Continental for over 25 years in varied positions such as regional sales manager, national accounts sales manager, car fleet sales manager, and European key account manager. Based at the German tyre manufacturer's UK head office in West Drayton, he will have overall responsibility for profitable sales and account management of independent, regional, national and wholesale accounts in the UK and ROI.

3rd January 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Senior Goodyear appointments named

New blood has been injected into Goodyear’s North American leadership. John F. “Jack” Winterton has been appointed president of the company’s North American Tire consumer business unit and Phillip Kane has taken over as vice-president of the Goodyear’s North American Tire commercial tyre business. Both appointments, Goodyear comments, are effective immediately and intended to “continue the positive momentum in the company’s North American Tire business.”

20th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Wholesaler praises Goodyear part worn initiative

Alan Baldwin, wholesale director at Micheldever Tyre Services, has praised Goodyear Dunlop UK’s recent part worn information initiative “in the strongest possible way.” Speaking to Tyres & Accessories, Baldwin highlighted what he called “their excellent initiative in exposing the dangers of part worn tyres to the consumer”.

He continued: “Amongst all the tyre manufacturers, Goodyear has clearly grasped the horrendous dangers of what the almost totally un-policed and dangerous part worn market means to the consumers safety and pockets…Goodyear’s excellent flyer (“The Ugly Truth about Part Worns) is the best information a consumer could be given and should be applauded by the entire industry.”

14th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Al Dobowi holds inaugural Westlake Partners’ Day

The Westlake tyre brand is named after one of China’s most popular domestic tourist destinations and a 2011 addition to UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites – the freshwater West Lake in the centre of Hangzhou, the home town of its manufacturer Hangzhou Zhongce, located around 180km south-west of Shanghao. Shen Jin-Rong, Hangzhou Zhongce president and chairman, reflects with pride on the link between what is seen as a premier Chinese location and the tyre brand named after it: “Westlake is our tyre brand and also the best place in our city.” The Al Dobowi Group distributes the brand in several European territories through its Eskay Tyres subsidiary; the newly exclusive distributor of the brand in the UK was announced as Axle Group Holdings at the end of September – owner of the Viking International wholesale arm and the National Tyres & Autocare retail chain (see T&A October’s Wholesale feature and the Related News link below). Tyres & Accessories travelled to the town from Shanghai with representatives from the Al Dobowi Group to see the development of Hangzhou Zhongce’s manufacturing facilities, and to witness the growth in interaction between the manufacturer and European dealers of its Westlake brand.

12th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Tough times for tyre distributors?

Editorial/Comment, News, UK News

As we look forward to 2012 there is no sign to economic pressures that blighted 2011 lifting any time soon. On the contrary, with the financial confusion surrounding the eurozone and with credit ratings agency Standard and Poor’s threatening to downgrade any of the 17 countries associated with it, there are still many challenges ahead. That said it was apparently a good year for some.

7th December 2011/by Chris

Quarter profit plummets at Stamford Tyres

Stamford Tyres has reported its unaudited quarter earnings for the period between 1 August and 31 October 2011, a quarter in which its after-tax profit dropped 80.5 per cent. The Singapore-based company’s after-tax profit amounted to S$330,000 (£149,500) in the second quarter of the 2012 financial year, as opposed to $1.69 million a year earlier.

7th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

ETRMA ‘surprised’ by TWG speech

Company News, International News, News, UK News

Following the publication of Tyres & Accessories’ report on the recent NTDA Tyre Wholesalers Group annual lunch, ETRMA secretary general Fazilet Cinaralp has written an open letter stating her association’s surprise at the issues raised in TWG chairman Ashley Croft’s keynote speech. During the speech, Croft referred to testing, lobbying and the relative importance of the implementation of current tread depth legislation. As our coverage explains, no-one was available to attend the event on behalf of the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers association, so here is the association’s response in full:

6th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

We Sell Tyres (Wholesale) MD Jackson retires

After 42 successful years in the tyre industry, Alan Jackson, managing director of Grouptyre member We Sell Tyres (Wholesale), has announced his retirement. Jackson’s successor will be Andy Zelos, who will take over as wholesale director from 1 January, 2012. Zelos has also joined the board of directors at Grouptyre. Jackson and Zelos have worked together for over twenty years, both at WS Tyremasters and subsequently at We Sell Tyres (Wholesale).

2nd December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

AG Services promoting business with Evergreen brand

Independent tyre dealer AG Services of Long Eaton is using a branded Skoda Octavia VRS, advertising the range of Evergreen-branded tyres it stocks. AG Services, run by father and son duo Alan and Richard Gadsby, is a customer of Grouptyre member We Sell Tyres (Wholesale), and is currently the best performer on Evergreen tyres for We Sell Tyres Nottingham branch. The dealer is an “Evergreen Performance Tyre Centre”, one of the strategies the brand, manufactured by Shandong Jinyu in China, is using to grow its UK sales.

2nd December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

GT Radial dealers enjoy Old Trafford hospitality

GT Radial dealers from Scotland and Northern England recently enjoyed full hospitality at the Theatre of Dreams for Manchester United’s home leg Champions League match versus Romanian side Otelui Galati, after winning their places for “exceptional sales performance.”

1st December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

NDI Tyre Cat as Nordexx distributor in Spain

On 1 November NDI A/S appointed Tyre Cat (Girona) as exclusive Nordexx distributor in Spain including. As well as mainland Spain the distributorship also includes Andorra, Melilla, Ceuta, the Canary Islands and the Baleares Islands. NDI reports that Tyre Cat has already shown “big potential” and has been distributing Nordexx since mid 2011.

1st December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Wholesalers Group chair outlines concerns with ETRMA

International News, News, UK News

The ears of the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers Association must have been rather warm as Ashley Croft, chairman of the Tyre Wholesalers Group of the NTDA, gave his speech at the group's annual lunch. Around 75 people – customers and suppliers – attended the event on 22 November at the National Motorcycle Museum and, as well as lunch, there was plenty of food for thought, particularly for manufacturers of premium brands.

24th November 2011/by Chris