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The company also launched a major investigation into the “price chipping” practices used by second-hand car dealers and online car buyers. The research showed that the price consumers were offered online was higher than the amount they actually received, with the average drop across all companies surveyed being 6%. [ 19 ]
As well as retail, it operates a wholesale division, which supplies in excess of 6 million tyres a year [2] to its 2,500 plus wholesale customers. Previous owner Tony Todd, since selling the company in 2006, was ranked 782nd in the Times Rich List, 2011. [3] As at November 2023 Protyre operates more than 180 branches across the UK. [4]
Diamond Tyres [18] Pakistan: 1968 Diamond Group of Industries DMACK UK: 2008 DMACK [19] DMACK Nordic Finland: 2023 Suomi Tyres (formerly Nokian bicycle tires) [20] [21] Fate (company) Argentina: 1940 FATE Federal Corporation Taiwan: 1954 Federal, [22] Hero, Atturo General Tyre Pakistan Pakistan: 1963 General [23] Giti [24] Singapore: 1951
It has around 100 service centres across the UK. [2] The company headquarters are at Trident Court on the 148-acre Birmingham Business Park, around a half-mile south-west of junction 4 of the M6, accessed from the A452. This is also the headquarters of Dunlop Tyres UK, which moved to the site in May 2017.
National Tyres and Autocare was formed in August 1970 under the name National Tyre Service Ltd. It brought together a number of companies to form the UK's first national network of tyre fitting centres. The components were Marsham Tyre Service, Briggs Tyre Service and Gorrills Tyre Service were owned and merged by Dunlop Ltd. [citation needed]
Event Mobile Tyres was an online tyre retailer in the United Kingdom and the first mobile online tyre retailer to use chip and pin mobile devices in the UK. They were members of the National Tyre Distributors Association.
In 1998, Tire Rack began online sales. [3] Since 1995, Tire Rack has been the title sponsor of the National Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Solo Program, a club that allows driving enthusiasts to compete at a local level. By 2005, Tire Rack had grown into a nationwide company that distributes more than 2 million tires annually. [4]
In 2022, Auto Trader began a partnership with the Office for National Statistics sharing its used car pricing data to power its official measures of inflation, including the Consumer Prices Index. [28] Also in 2022, Auto Trader acquired Autorama, owner of Vanarama, one of the UK’s largest transactional marketplaces for leasing new vehicles. [29]