Bridgestone Tires for Sale, Dueler, Blizzak, Turanza, Potenza
February 12, 2009 by Robert · Leave a Comment
Bridgestone Tires - A Multinational Winner: You may not know it, but Bridgestone Tires was originally founded in Japan. The company's name comes from that of the founder - Shojiro Ishibashi. Ishibashi means "stone bridge" in Japanese, and a transposition of that phrase was used for the English version of the company's name. Currently Bridgestone is number one in the global tire market, ahead of Michelin, Goodyear and Continental. (Continue reading more about Bridgestone below...)
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Continue Reading background about Bridgestone Tires
The company has more than a hundred and forty production facilities, located in twenty-four countries. Corporate policies from 2001 have led to this level of globalization for Bridgestone. The company was established in 1931, and operated in Kurume, Japan. The goal was to make tires using only Japanese technology, with no reliance on tech from North America or Europe. This meant there were many early difficulties in sales, production and technology. However, as improvements in quality and manufacturing occurred, the company rapidly expanded in both their domestic markets and those overseas.
Of course, like most Japanese companies, Bridgestone experienced difficulties during World War II, when wartime regulations affected every segment of Japanese life, including tire production. Almost all the company's output went to the military. During an aerial bombing raid, the headquarters in Tokyo was destroyed. All overseas assets for Bridgestone were also lost. However, the Yokohama and Kurume plants remained untouched, and were able to go back into production right away. Despite a forty-five day worker strike, the company was able to keep on making great tires.
Bridgestone was the first Japanese company to start selling rayon cord tires in 1951, and began selling nylon tires in 1959. They opened several new plants in that time to deal with the quickly expanding market for motorization. The company was first listed on the stock exchange at the beginning of the 1960s, and adopted over all quality control plans at this time. In 1965, the company opened its first overseas plant since the end of World War II, in Singapore. Expansion of production to Thailand occurred in 1969. The first radial tire from Bridgestone came out in 1967, the same year that Bridgestone America was established, and was called the RD10.
In the late 1970s, the company met the beginning of Japan's economic stagnation period with an emphasis on establishing its own radial tire technology. More domestic plants were built and new tires came on the market, including the Super Filler Radial in 1978 and the POTENZA radial in 1979. Production started up in other countries during this decade, too, including Indonesia, Iran, Taiwan and Australia.
The company celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1981, and its seventy-fifth in 2006. By the mid 1980s, Bridgestone had established production facilities in countries all over the world, and changed its name to Bridgestone Corporation. It also purchased the Firestone company in 1988, and put a great deal of resources into rebuilding this ailing company. In 1990, the two companies were amalgamated. Currently, Bridgestone produces great tires for just about any vehicle you can imagine, from cars and trucks to motorcycles, buses and construction vehicles, and even airplanes. And, while they're not the cheapest tires, they're among the very best tires on the market today.
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