Toyo Tire Corp. (TYO:5105) recently announced that it is set to supply tires from its Open Country series for use in the Silk Way Rally 2019, a race scheduled to run over July 6–16 and span Russia, Mongolia and China. The tires will be supplied to rally driver Bryce Menzies. This year’s Silk Way Rally marks the ninth time the...
Toyo Tire Corp. (TYO:5105) and its U.S. sales subsidiary Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp. (TTC) are set to provide support for the 2019 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a race scheduled for June 30 in the U.S. The companies will support three teams taking part in the event’s Time Attack 1 Class and one team in the Exhibition Class, providing these...
Toyo Tire Corp. (TYO:5105) is planning an Aug. 1 Japanese launch for its Celsius line of all-weather, all-season SUV tires. The tire is set to be sold in a total of six sizes. Coming up now for a domestic launch, the Celsius has been rolled out to North America and Europe starting in 2015. Toyo Tires is touting the product...
Toyo Tire Corp. (TYO:5105) recently posted its results for the first quarter of calendar 2019, showing overall sales of 90.14 billion yen ($817.75 million) for the period. This marks a decrease of 3.8 percent from the same quarter last year. The company’s operating profit for the quarter was similarly down 4 percent year-on-year to 10.17 billion yen, with ordinary profit...
The Japanese Rubber Workers’ Union Confederation has released the results of its 2019 spring labor initiative aimed at securing higher wages and bonuses for workers at major rubber companies. As part of this, the organization announced that 56 of its 58 member unions submitted wage requests, of which 49 have reached a settlement with the relevant companies. Meanwhile, 49 unions...
Toyo Tire Corp. (TYO:5105) recently announced that its Open Country tire series has been adopted by Toyota Motor Corp. (TYO:7203) as OE for the automaker’s new-model RAV4, which launched in North America last December. The styling of the new Toyota RAV4 conveys power befitting an SUV while also mixing this with a sense of refinement. On the practical side, the...
