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In 1985, the Dunlop Rubber Company was acquired by now-defunct BTR plc, and Sumitomo acquired the rights to manufacture and market Dunlop branded road tyres. Sumitomo did not acquire any Dunlop company. In 1997 Sumitomo gained agreement to use the Dunlop name in its corporate name, and changed the name of its UK subsidiary to "Dunlop Tyres Ltd."
Dunlop is a brand of tyre originally produced by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company from the end of the 19th century, taking its name from John Boyd Dunlop. The brand is used for many other products made from rubber or with rubber components and some with a looser connection to rubber. Ownership of the brand has become fragmented over the years.
Sumitomo Rubber South Africa manufactures the Dunlop, Sumitomo and Falken passenger car tyre brands in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal. The Ladysmith plant began to produce Dunlop truck and bus radial tyres in July 2018, following the second of two large investments by Sumitomo Rubber Industries to upgrade and modernise the plant.
The Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. - THE GOODYEAR TYRE & Rubber Co. Amiens, France: NC/1NC: Goodyear France S.A. - Consumer tires (Closed) [79] Montluçon, France: DK/1DK: Dunlop France S.A. - Motorcycle and scooter tires, passenger car tires Riom, France - Truck tire retreading Philippsburg, Germany: ND/1ND: Deutsche Goodyear GmbH - Warehouse ...
Dunlop Ltd. (formerly Dunlop Rubber) [1] was a British multinational company involved in the manufacture of various natural rubber goods. Its business was founded in 1889 by Harvey du Cros and he involved John Boyd Dunlop who had re-invented and developed the first pneumatic tyre: he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle.
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Continental AG, commonly known as Continental and colloquially as Conti, [3] is a German multinational automotive parts manufacturing company. Headquartered in Hanover, Lower Saxony, it is the world's third-largest automotive supplier and the fourth-largest tire manufacturer.
In 2013, it disposed of the Dunlop brand in Africa along with most of the South African operation in a sale to Sumitomo Rubber Industries of Japan. [16] The very same year, it started its Global R&D Centre, in Enschede, the Netherlands. [17] In 2015, Apollo Tyres bought Germany's Reifencom tyre distributor for €45.6 million. [18]