{"id":17337,"date":"2017-06-05T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T13:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/?p=17337"},"modified":"2017-06-12T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:28:23","slug":"bridgestone-secures-firstgroup-global-fleet-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/bridgestone-secures-firstgroup-global-fleet-partnership\/17337","title":{"rendered":"Bridgestone secures FirstGroup global fleet\u00a0partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11534\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transportparts.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bridgestone-FirstGroup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From L-R: First Bus managing director, Giles Fearnley, Busway supervisor David Holt,\u00a0Bridgestone North Region MD Robin Shaw and Bridgestone commercial sales\u00a0director, Greg Ward.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The FirstGroup fleet contract covers\u00a0operations in the USA and Canada\u00a0in addition to the UK. It is\u00a0Bridgestone\u2019s biggest commercial fleet\u00a0contract in its history, a $110m, five-year deal with transport\u00a0operator FirstGroup. Bridgestone will supply tyres to more\u00a0than 60,000 of FirstGroup\u2019s buses and coaches in the USA,\u00a0Canada and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Ward, commercial sales director for Bridgestone, said: \u201cThis is a hugely significant announcement\u00a0for the whole team at Bridgestone and a partnership that we\u2019re extremely proud of. To win the contract,\u00a0we needed to demonstrate our value and ability to deliver on a global level in order to stave off stiff\u00a0competition from a rival premium tyre manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a strong goal to become the number one supplier to FirstGroup and, as such, we\u00a0demonstrated an ability to act as a global company with a \u2018one team\u2019 philosophy, meaning that the\u00a0geographical distance between our US and UK teams was never an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the agreement Bridgestone will provide tyres for all of FirstGroup\u2019s vehicles in the UK and\u00a0around 80 per cent of its operations in the United States and Canada. In negotiating the contract,\u00a0Bridgestone had to demonstrate flexibility to meet specific needs of the fleet, which will predominantly\u00a0run on UAP-001 tyres, featuring different tread patterns unique to each market.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Lovett, group procurement manager for FirstGroup, said: \u201cWe are delighted to have agreed this\u00a0global contract with Bridgestone. Having first begun working together through a fleet agreement in\u00a0Leicester in 2004, we have seen significant achievements and built up a solid working relationship over\u00a0many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany organisations \u2013 whilst global in nature \u2013 retain a regionalised market focus but Bridgestone were\u00a0able to engage with FirstGroup on a global basis, enabling us to leverage our size and scale. This\u00a0agreement will provide the flexibility that we need to manage a huge fleet of vehicles on both sides of\u00a0the Atlantic, including our local buses, coach services, and school transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FirstGroup fleet contract covers\u00a0operations in the USA and Canada\u00a0in addition to the UK. It is\u00a0Bridgestone\u2019s biggest commercial fleet\u00a0contract in its history, a $110m, five-year deal with transport\u00a0operator FirstGroup. Bridgestone will supply tyres to more\u00a0than 60,000 of FirstGroup\u2019s buses and coaches in the USA,\u00a0Canada and the UK. Greg Ward, commercial sales director for Bridgestone, said: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-bridgestone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bridgestone secures FirstGroup global fleet\u00a0partnership - TyreTrade.ie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/bridgestone-secures-firstgroup-global-fleet-partnership\/17337\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bridgestone secures FirstGroup global fleet\u00a0partnership - TyreTrade.ie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The FirstGroup fleet contract covers\u00a0operations in the USA and Canada\u00a0in addition to the UK. 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