Congratulations Akron management. Your marketing, sales and operations have caused Fayetteville to announce its closing. Well done. What a ridiculous campaign “Fast is in Us”. Fast as into insolvency? Selling of the name? If you are Akron. Shame. You saw the data before all of us. You saw the trend. And you said “we are on track. It’s getting better.”
Instead you developed tires no one wanted. No one needed. If you were here 40 years or 4 months you are the problem.
They should pull the lucrative active duty military tire contracts away from the foreign company michelin (European/Chinese), and they should give it all back to an American Company like Goodyear. I believe Goodyear had always reliably supplied our military in every major military event of the 20th century. Time to fix the stupid offshoring /outsourcing and bring industry back to our Home.
Goodyear doesnt rebrand cheap chinese tires under their label like the other tire companies do. Being American made means you pay a little more for quality, but most people in the Trump economy cant even afford the cheap chinese built michelin or hankook tires, let alone the better goodyear tires.
@hz
Still have lawton plus the 3 former Cooper plants
Topeka next they are the only ones basically left in NA of significant employment. Handwriting on the wall?
How much market share has Goodyear lost over the last two years?? If Michelin, Perelli and Hankook are showing increase in sales? Something doesn’t add up. Last year they said it was private label imports flooding the market. Now it’s customers drawing down inventory. Then why doesn’t affect other mfg? I wish the analysts on Wall Street would ask tougher questions.
They will move to where they aren't forced to agree to union contracts. Unions aren't helping any more