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Yokohama
Yokohama Tire Corp. will increase prices up to 8 percent on all consumer tires sold in the U.S., effective March 1.
Toyo
Toyo Tire Canada Inc. will increase prices on Toyo winter passenger and light truck tires up to 3.5 percent, effective April 1, due to escalating raw materials costs.
Goodyear
Goodyear is raising prices on its consumer tires in the U.S. and Canada and commercial tires in the U.S. by up to 6 percent, effective April 1.
Yokohama
Yokohama Tire Corp. will increase prices up to 8 percent on all of its commercial truck tires in the U.S., effective Feb. 1.
Falken
Falken Tire Corp. will raise prices on its Falken-brand passenger and light truck tire lines in the U.S. and Canada by up to 5 percent, with some inline adjustments, on Jan. 1.
Toyo
Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp. will increase prices Jan. 1 in the U.S. on passenger, light truck and commercial truck tires by a weighted average of 6 percent.
Yokohama Tire Corp.
Yokohama Tire Corp. is increasing prices on all its OTR tires in the U.S. by up to 15 percent, effective Jan. 1.
Bridgestone
Bridgestone Americas Commercial Solutions will raise prices Jan. 1 in the U.S. and Canada on OTR tires and Continuum retreading materials.
Kumho
Kumho Tire USA Inc. will raise prices in the U.S. on passenger, light truck and commercial tires by up to 8 percent, effective Nov. 1.
Hankook
Hankook Tire America Corp. is raising prices by up to 8 percent on its commercial tire line in the U.S., effective Nov. 1.
Goodyear
Goodyear North American Tire is raising prices in the U.S. on all brands of commercial tires, retreads and tread rubber by up to 10 percent, effective Nov. 1.
Pirelli
Pirelli Pneus Inc./Pirelli Tire Inc. is raising prices on car and light truck tires in Canada by up to 7 percent effective Dec. 1.
Cooper Tire
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is raising prices on tires in the U.S. by up to 5 percent, effective Dec. 1.
Toyo
Toyo Tire Canada Inc. will raise prices on summer and all-season passenger and light truck tires Dec. 1 by up to 5 percent.
Falken Tire
Falken Tire Corp. has notified its dealers that it will increase prices on Ohtsu and Falken branded truck and bus radial truck tire lines by up to 8 percent, effective Nov. 1.
Continental
Continental Tire Canada Inc. will increase tire prices up to 7 percent with some in-line adjustments on all passenger and light truck tires in the Canadian market.
Bridgestone
Bridgestone Commercial Solutions, the commercial tire business unit of Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, is raising prices on Bridgestone- and Firestone-brand truck and bus radial tires by up to 8 percent for its U.S. and Canadian dealer and truckstop customers.
Yokohama
Yokohama Tire Corp. (YTC) will raise the prices of its light and medium truck tires in the U.S. by up to 8 percent on Oct. 1, with in-line adjustments to be announced later.
Bridgestone
Bridgestone Americas is raising prices on passenger and light truck replacement and OE tires up to 8 percent, effective Nov. 1.
Michelin
Michelin North America Inc. will raise prices in October and November on various passenger, light truck, commercial truck and agricultural tires sold in the U.S by 6 to 9 percent.
Goodyear
Goodyear has confirmed it is raising prices on its replacement consumer tires by up to 5 percent, effective Oct. 1.
Eurotire
Eurotire Inc., a designer, manufacturer and service provider of OTR tires for the global mining industry, will increase prices globally by up to 9.8 percent on all its OTR bias tires and up to 11.5 percent on its radial OTR tires, effective Sept. 5.
Yokohama
Yokohama Tire Corp. (YTC) will raise prices on all OTR tires in the U.S. by 11 percent, effective Sept. 1.
Michelin
Michelin North America Inc. is raising prices between 5 and 13 percent on all Michelin-brand replacement earthmover tires sold in North America, effective Sept. 1
Toyo Tires Canada
Toyo Tire Canada Inc. will raise prices July 1 on medium truck tires by 5 percent.
Yokohama
Yokohama Tire Corp. will increases prices by an average of 8 percent on all of its light and medium commercial truck tires sold in the U.S., effective July 1.

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As consolidation continues in the tire industry—with large companies swallowing up small dealerships and chains—what’s your approach?
I’d sell my dealership today if the right deal came along.
I’d never sell my company—it’s a matter of pride and longevity in the business.
I’m too busy trying to expand my dealership to consider purchase offers.
Consolidation is a major problem in the tire industry today.