Welcome to Tire Industry Research To keep up to date and get full FREE access to our commentaries enter your username and password below or register here Username Password Remember me Forgot Password Latest News19 January, 2017Double Star and Kumho – Why it matters to youOnce the final bidders for the stake were announced, the name of the winner was no real surprise. In fact I predicted it in the email I sent last week to subscribers to our weekly China Tire Intelligence report. Even if Kumho Asiana Group is unable to raise the rumoured USD850mn to out-bid Double Star, […]Read more...9 January, 2017Where do you get your information?By David Shaw This column builds on some of my previous columns about ongoing changes in our industry. This time, I want to discuss news, opinion and analysis; the relations with tire makers and how that is changing. It’s written in the context of tires, but is also relevant to other industry sectors. Changing business models […]Read more...28 December, 2016China’s tire industry in 2017This week marks a year since we introduced our China Tire Intelligence report. We remain the only publication that routinely tracks Chinese-language news coming out of China’s tire industry and then merges that intelligence with international news affecting the sector. We report on more than 50 stories each week, far more than any other publication. […]Read more...28 December, 2016New: Global tire industry forecast for 2017 By David Shaw It’s traditional at this time of year to review the last 12 months and look forward to the coming year. For the last 12 months, there have been a lot of stories, but I think five main themes stand out: Increasing trade protectionism, especially against China-made tires Greater globalism in the […]Read more...12 December, 2016What’s going on with tire pricing?By David Shaw, Tire Industry Research If you work in the tire trading business, you’ve probably been receiving a series of emails from suppliers telling you about price increases. These are blamed on rocketing raw material costs Yet there’s not much sign of prices increasing in the retail market. If anything prices are still going […]Read more...
