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Avon Tyres has been announced as the Official Tyre Supplier for 6th Gear Experience, the UK’s largest provider of Supercar Driving Experience Days. With six venues across the North, Midlands and the South, 6th Gear offers car fanatics an adrenalin-fuelled experience in a number of high performance cars including the Lamborghini Gallardo, Aston Martin Vantage,

Avon Tyres has confirmed its sponsorship of the Bloodhound Project, centred on Bloodhound SSC, a supersonic car that is designed to go faster than the speed of sound. As part of its support of the ground-breaking project, Avon is supplying tyres suitable for desert use to Bloodhound’s essential support vehicles and is also looking to

Bartec Auto ID has appointed Steve Umney as its new Product Manager. Steve is a qualified vehicle technician with experience spanning over 20 years on the workshop floor including valuable technical assistance important to his new role at Bartec. Over the last 10 years Steve has gained valuable Product Management experience in the Automotive Aftermarket

The London Motor Show and Automechanika Birmingham have joined forces to jointly promote their automotive events. With The London Motor Show providing consumers with the ultimate automotive retail event in the Capital and Automechanika Birmingham hosting the UK’s leading exhibition for the automotive aftermarket and vehicle production sector dedicated to the UK’s automotive industry and

Getting the New Year off to a flying start, Philip White Tyres is currently recruiting a Sales Executive to cover the UK and EU. Field based in the UK and reporting directly to the Wholesale Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing new business within the UK & Europe and developing trading relations

Having already established a reputation for providing industry leading levels of aftersales care, wheel servicing equipment specialist Pro-Align has further boosted its credentials in this area with the appointment of a new aftersales manager. Experienced aftermarket professional Nigel Jacob joins the business from a specialist automotive dealer consultancy where he was responsible for improving the

Ulster Tyres is celebrating 40 years in business this year, having been founded by husband and wife team Joe and Brighid McGinley back in 1978. Prior to establishing Ulster Tyres, Joe was a director for a local tyre company and having spotted opportunities in the tyre trade, he decided to set up his own company,

Korean tyre maker, Kumho is set to under go a reconstruction, merger and acquisition, after its main creditor, the Korea Development Bank (KDB) confirmed on Wednesday, January 3, that it has set up three task forces to handle the restructure. The state-run bank and several other creditors had planned to come up with measures to

The average UK dealership failed to replace 71 per cent of severely worn tyres in November, raising serious duty of care concerns as motorists prepare for further winter driving conditions in the New Year. Figures obtained from electronic vehicle health check provider autoVHC revealed that the average dealership sold replacement tyres on only 29 per

Soo Il Lee has been appointed as President and CEO of Hankook Tire, and will serve alongside CEO Hyun Bum Cho as a separate representative of the company. Lee will oversee Hankook Tire’s management, using experience gained by serving as COO of Hankook Tire’s America & China Headquarters, and as Chief Marketing & Corporate Management

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Europe Ltd. has appointed Michael Lutz as General Manager for the German, Swiss and Austrian region (DACH). He is based at Cooper’s sales office in Dreieich, Germany and will report to Jaap van Wessum, Sales Director – Europe Tire Operations. Lutz brings decades of experience to Cooper through his more