Aeolus held a marketing meeting on 14 Feb, to underline the return to work after start of the Year of the Monkey. Over 260 attended the meeting which was chaired by local branch secretary, Qin Hongsheng (秦鸿胜) The focus of the meeting was to share experience of marketing, channel distribution and how to sell tires.
China’s tire company bosses are seeking a way forward, but few are finding it. In some cases, financial problems are so great that the company has been declared bankrupt, and a merger or cooperation forced upon it. Although this is painful at the time, without this drastic action the company would in any case die.
China’s Quality authority has issued its second list of “Chinese export quality and safety demonstration enterprises” (中国出口质量安全示范企业) and has included some tire makers in the list. China’s State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) issued the list in early February. The list includes the following companies 19 Kenda Rubber (China) Co., Ltd. (建大橡胶（中国）有限公司)
German Motoring club ACE (Auto Club Europa) carried out a comparative test on budget Summer tires and published the results last week. The tire from GiTi came last and the magazine test results appeared to contradict the label scores on the tire. A model from Nexen came top, beating a Hankook tire by a few
A Jiaxing newspaper website carried an interesting article on the return to work after the Spring Break. Hankook workers were grateful to the company for providing a fleet of buses to take them to their homes and back again to Hankook. The company chartered 78 vehicles to transport its staff to 34 destinations in six
CRIA has reported on China’s national (not just tires and rubber) export statistics for January. Total exports for the month were down 6.6% year-on-year, while imports were down 14.4% CRIA published a great deal more data in the article. Source: CRIA
Russia’s Interfax news agency quotes Russian Finance minister Anton Siluanov (Антон Силуанов) saying that no decision has been taken on the widely-rumoured imposition of excise duties on tires. Source 1 : Interfax (Russian language) Source 2: Russian Broadcasting Corp.
Official data shows that the production of electric vehicles in January 2016 was 16,100 units, up from 6599 units in January 2015. However the January figure contrasts strongly with the figure of 99,800 units reportedly produced in December 2015. There is a suggestion that the industry had inflated the production numbers, especially in the bus
Zheng Chao (郑超) has set up a new online store for car replacement parts, including tires. The store is called Car Superman. The report in China Tire Dealer includes stacks of tires, and the report adds that these are tracked using barcodes applied to the tires through labels. The store allows one to buy tires
China Tire Dealer carries out an interview with a school-age boy working in a tire shop. There are photographs. Source: China Tire Dealer A parallel story in Tire World reports on a 9-year-old lad working in a tire store in Syria Source: Tire World
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