Retail
Online tire retailer SimpleTire is donating $10,000 to charity:water to fund a clean water project.
TBC recently raised nearly $170,000 for the American Heart Association to fight heart disease and stroke.
The management of ATD's Tire Pros retail franchise program continues to refine and enhance the program's digital ecosystem in an effort to empower dealers to serve their customers more effectively.
Discount Tire's Treadwell Research facility and the data it provides for the firm's 1,213 retail outlets nationwide are intended to connect with and empower its customers.
The "typical" Top 100 dealership in North America operates 26 stores — up four points of sale from a year ago — generating roughly $3.6 million in revenue per outlet with a dozen tire brands available.
According to data collected and analyzed annually by Tire Business, the 100 largest dealerships (actually 105 due to ties) in North America operate over 10,250 points of sale among them.
TBC Corp.'s Midas and Big O Tires brands garnered the Nos. 1 and 3 rankings, respectively, in the automotive repair category of Franchise Times' latest annual Top 400.
Belle Tire Distributors is partnering with Cramer-Krasselt, a Chicago-based marketing and communications agency.
The team at Black's Tire & Wheel Service has mobilized to get relief to hard-hit victims of Hurricane Helene.
A new survey showed the three main factors for choosing a tire retailer were location, price and previous positive experience.