"The major tyre brands in the industry"
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[ "The major tyre brands in the industryBridgestoneBridgestone, one of the world's leading tyre producers, owns the Firestone brand as well as numerous other lesser-known economical brands. It is a Japanese international car and truck components business founded in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi. Bridgestone is a calque translation and transposition of Ishibashi, which means "stone bridge" in Japanese.Bridgestone/Firestone is the world's largest Van Tyres Stanley producer as of 2021. Michelin (France), Goodyear (USA), MRF (India), Continental (Germany), and Pirelli followed (Italy).As of July 2018, Bridgestone Group operated 181 manufacturing plants in 24 countries.Bridgestone America's origins may be traced back to the merger of two different firms to become the Bridgestone Tyre Corporation. The first is the Firestone Tyre & Rubber Company, which was founded by Harvey Firestone in August 1900 and is located in Akron, Ohio. The second is the Bridgestone Tyre Company, Ltd., which was founded in Japan in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi. The Japanese "Tabi" Socks Tire Division manufactured the first Bridgestone tyre on April 9, 1930. (actually made jika-tabi). Shojiro Ishibashi, the founder, declared the "Tabi" Socks Tyre Division independent one year later on March 1, 1931, and formed the Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd.MichelinMichelin, a competitor to Bridgestone and Goodyear, ranks among the top international tyre providers in terms of sales. Michelin is a French multinational tyre manufacturer headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in the Auvergne-Rhne-Alpes region. It is the world's second-biggest tyre producer, trailing only Bridgestone, and larger than both Goodyear and Continental. It also owns the Klber tyre firm, Uniroyal-Goodrich Tyre Company, SASCAR, Bookatable, and Camso trademarks in addition to Michelin. Michelin is also recognised for its Red and Green travel guides, roadmaps, the Michelin stars awarded to restaurants by the Red Guide for their food, and its business mascot Bibendum, informally known as the Michelin Man.douard Michelin and Andr Michelin owned a rubber plant in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1889. One day, a cyclist arrived at the workplace with a pneumatic tyre that needed to be repaired. The rubber was stuck to the rim, and it took more than three hours to remove and fix the tyre, which then needed to dry overnight. The next day, douard Michelin brought the repaired bicycle into the production yard to put it through its paces. The tyre blew after only a few hundred metres. Despite the setback, douard remained passionate about the pneumatic tyre, and he and his brother worked on developing their version that did not require glueing to the rim. Michelin was founded on May 28, 1889. Michelin received its initial patent in 1891 for a replaceable pneumatic tyre, which Charles Terront utilised to win the world's first long-distance cycle race, the 1891 ParisBrestParis.GoodyearThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Corporation is an American global tyre manufacturing company headquartered in Akron, Ohio, that was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Goodyear produces tyres for vehicles, commercial trucks, light trucks, motorbikes, SUVs, race cars, aircraft, farm equipment, and large earth-moving machines. It also manufactures bicycle tyres, having resumed production after a hiatus between 1976 and 2015. As of 2017, Goodyear, along with Bridgestone (Japan), Michelin (France), and Continental, is one of the top four tyre producers (Germany).In 1898, the first Goodyear facility opened in Akron, Ohio. The firm began by producing bicycle and carriage tyres, rubber horseshoe pads, and poker chips, and it expanded with the invention of the vehicle.In 1901, Goodyear founder Frank Seiberling supplied racing tyres to Henry Ford.Goodyear president, chairman, and CEO Paul Weeks Litchfield received a patent for the first tubeless vehicle tyre in 1903.Litchfield discovered soil in the Phoenix region suited for cultivating long-staple cotton, which was required to strengthen its rubber in tyres, in 1916. The Southwest Cotton Company, with Litchfield as president, owned the 36,000 acres bought.ContinentalContinental AG, also known as Continental or Conti, is a German multinational automobile parts manufacturing firm that specialises in brake systems, interior electronics, automotive safety, engine and chassis components, tachographs, tyres, and other automotive and transportation elements. Continental is divided into six divisions: chassis and safety, powertrain, interior, tyres, ContiTech, and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). Its headquarters are located in Hanover, Lower Saxony. Continental is the fourth-largest tyre maker in the world.Continental-Caoutchouc and Gutta-Percha Compagnie was formed in 1871 as a rubber factory. Continental began to research and manufacture automobile tyres with simple tread in 1898, which was the brand's greatest success. Continental was the first business in the world to create grooved automobile tyres in 1904. Another significant product developed by Continental was the removable wheel tyre, which was designed for touring automobiles (1905). Continental amalgamated with several other big rubber sector enterprises in the late 1920s to establish the largest rubber corporation in Germany, "Continental Gummi-Werke AG."PirelliPirelli & C. S.p.A. is an Italian multinational tyre manufacturer headquartered in Milan. The firm, which has been listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1922, is the seventh-largest tyre producer in the world, trailing Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear, MRF, Continental, Sumitomo, and Hankook, and is focused on the consumer market (tyres for cars, motorcycles and bicycles). It has a business presence in over 160 countries across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America, and the former Soviet Union. It has 19 production facilities in 13 countries and has a network of over 14,600 distributors and retailers. The partnership led by the Chinese state-owned business ChemChina temporarily privatised it.Giovanni Battista Pirelli founded the firm in Milan in 1872, first specialising in rubber and derivative processes and later producing scuba diving rebreathers. Following that, Pirelli's activities were mostly centred on the manufacture of tyres and cables (for energy and telecommunications). Pirelli Tyres Stanley sold its cable sector to Goldman Sachs in 2005, and the new company was renamed Prysmian.Alberto Pirelli commissioned the construction of the Pirelli Tower in the 1950s, in the same Milanese neighbourhood that housed the first Pirelli plant in the nineteenth century." ]