Bruce Davis

Special Projects Reporter

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Bruce has been with Tire Business since its inception in 1983, helping create the business plan, format, design and content with then-editor and publisher Ernie Zielasko. Prior to that he was a reporter and marketing editor of Rubber & Plastics News from August 1980 to December 1982. Bruce was managing editor of Tire Business from 1983 to 1985, when he become the European correspondent for Tire Business, Rubber & Plastics News, European Rubber Journal and Urethanes Technology, all published by Crain Communications. He moved to Frankfurt, Germany, where he covered the European tire and rubber industry for all four magazines for the next 12 years, returning to the Akron office in early 1996 as special projects editor for Tire Business and Rubber & Plastics News. In his current role, Bruce heads up special projects such as the Global Tire Report and rankings of retailers, commercial dealers, retreaders and wholesalers among other topics. Bruce graduated from Ohio University in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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Recent Stories
Tin Thanh Group Americas CEO Tran Dinh Quyen.
Vietnamese energy company building S.C. retread plant

Tin Thanh Group, a Vietnamese energy company, has broken ground in rural South Carolina on a project that eventually will include a truck tire retreading plant, tire distribution facility and renewable energy resources.
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Canada pledges $80M to aid Michelin tire plant upgrade

Michelin's plans to invest $225 million in its manufacturing facilities in Canada will be supported by close to $80 million in federal and provincial aid.
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Tire company forecasts: No to low growth in 2023

Following a relatively upbeat year in 2022, when most of the world's larger tire companies registered double-digit growth, the tire industry is bracing itself for a tough year in 2023.
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DOT issues 27 new tire factory codes

Codes for factories in Cambodia, China, India, Sri Lanka among the 27 new U.S. Department of Transportation tire plant identification codes issued in the past year.
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ITC to report India OTR duties ruling April 27

The International Trade Commission has set April 27 as the date it expects to issue its determination on whether to continue antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of certain OTR tires on India.
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Titan's stock price drops 19%

Titan International Inc.'s failure to issue a concrete business forecast for 2023 earlier this week led to a 19.5% drop in the company's stock price.
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Value of U.S. tire imports increased 55% last year

This article is featured in the Feb. 27 Tire Business Market Data Book.

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Market Data Book 2022: Tale of two tire markets

Much like the "Tale of Two Cities," the U.S. tire market in 2022 was a tale of two divergent trends, one quite positive, one rather disappointing.
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Truck sector leads U.S. tire market; consumer down

Much like the 'Tale of Two Cities,' the U.S. tire market in 2022 was a tale of two divergent trends, one quite positive, one rather disappointing.
Kenda Vice President Brandon Stotsenburg (left) and racer Jeff Courtney discussed Kenda's plan to use racing to promote Kenda's Vezda UHP tire line.
Kenda to promote Vezda UHP line in endurance racing

Kenda Tire USA Inc. plans to broaden its motorsports activities in 2023 as part of a promotional effort to strengthen the Vezda name.
Ralson India Ltd. is making the jump to a full-fledged tire company with the opening of a state-of-the-art truck/bus tire factory in west-central India.
Ralson opens medium truck tire plant in India

The plant will support the company plan to enter U.S. commercial tire market.
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Tire Discounters expands on multiple fronts

Tire Discounters is the only family-owned and operated retail tire dealership among the nation's 10 largest retail chains.
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WTD launches American Road Star brand, upgrades Arroyo, Zestino brands

Wholesale Tire Distributors has created a new brand, American Road Star, that will complement its existing Arroyo and Zestino brands in a multi-pronged approach to the U.S. market.
Illustration of a shipping boat on the ocean. imported tires will take an even greater share of the U.S. tire market overall this year.
Passenger, LT tire imports cool in Q3 while TBR grows

The pace of importing passenger and light truck tires into the U.S. cooled off considerably in the third quarter, but imports of medium truck and bus tires ramped up and are headed for another record year.
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USTMA: Passenger, LT tire shipments to drop vs. 2021

The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association has downgraded its forecast for replacement market passenger and light truck tire shipments for 2022, while at the same time raising the outlook for replacement truck tire shipments.