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Goodyear Tire & Rub


Goodyear Tire & Rub is a publicly traded company having a good stock performance result. Goodyear Tire & Rub is a fortune 500 stock listed company trading under GT.
 
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by 38 year old Frank Seiberling. Despite a worldwide alliance with Sumitomo Rubber Industries designed to dominate the tire industry, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is the 3 tire maker in the world, behind Bridgestone and Michelin. 
 
Other Goodyear products include automotive hoses and belts and industrial chemicals. It operates about 90 plants worldwide, and has nearly 1,700 retail tire and auto centers. GT sells tires for the replacement market as well as to the world's automakers. In addition to its own brand of tires, Goodyear makes Dunlop tires for sale in North America and Europe through its alliance with Japan's Sumitomo. 
 
Goodyear, one of the world's leading tire companies, has a presence on 6 continents and annual sales of 19.7 billion dollars. It produces and sells tires under several other well-respected brand names including Dunlop, Kelly, Fulda, Sava and Debica. Its non-tire business units provide rubber products and polymers for a variety of automotive and industrial markets. Goodyear markets its products in 185 countries and manufactures them in more than 100 plants in 29 countries and employs more than 80,000 associates.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber (Research) ranks no. 112 on this year's list of the fortune 500, with 19,723 million dollars in revenues, up 7.4 percent from the previous year.

Goodyear's commitment to their communities is vital part of their corporate initiative. It is the company's goal to promote healthy, high functioning communities in locations where our major plants and offices reside. Their continuing quest is to be a socially aware and responsive global citizen wherever we operate or do business.

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