Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, motorcycles, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery. It also produced bicycle tires from its founding until 1976. As of 2017, Goodyear is one of the top four tire manufacturers along with Bridgestone (Japan), Michelin (France) and Continental (Germany). The company was named after American Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber. The first Goodyear tires became popular because they
GRI Tires GRI Tires GRI (Global Rubber Industries, Pvt. Ltd.) is a tire manufacturer in Sri Lanka producing industrial and specialty tires for the global market. GRI produces tires for over 50 countries across the world. GRI was established in Sri Lanka in the year 2002 by Prabhash Subasinghe, its current Managing Director. GRI is headquartered in Sri Lanka and operates in six countries including the United States, Germany, France, Netherlands and Australia. The company’s first off-shore sales offices were established in the United States and France in 2003 . It opened its latest sales and service offices in Australia in Brisbane,