Lee Fiedler, right, president of Kelly Springfield Tire Co., confers with Tsuneo Iwasaki, president of Sumitomo Corp. of America, and Dan Wire, president of Sumitomo's Treadways Corp. subsidiary, after the three signed an agreement under which Kelly will continue to manufacture the Jetzon, Laramie and Telstar private tire brands for the next 10 years. Treadways recently purchased the nationally marketed brands, which Kelly has been manufacturing for the past 31 years.
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