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ABOUT GOODYEAR
Goodyear established its New Zealand operations in 1917.
Originally imported, the Goodyear brands local tyre production
started in 1949 with a manufacturing agreement with Dunlop to produce
Goodyear brand tyres in their new Upper Hutt plant. That production
agreement continued through to April 1987 when a closer relationship
between the two companies was entered into with the formation of
the Joint Venture company South Pacific Tyres NZ Limited with 50/50
ownership by Pacific Dunlop of Australia and The Goodyear Tyre & Rubber
Co Ltd of USA. Goodyear then took full ownership in January 2006.
Goodyear has continued to develop its distribution channels since
the formation of the Joint Venture and now markets a full range
of Goodyear brand tyres in New Zealand as well as exporting worldwide.
The product range for New Zealand motorists is comprehensive and
since the closure of the Upper Hutt plant in December 2006 product
is sourced from South Pacific Tyres plants in Australia along with
high technology product imported from Goodyear plants worldwide.
Goodyear Tyres are sold through the national chain of Goodyear
Auto Service Centres or other Authorised Dealers located conveniently
throughout the country.

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Goodyear & Dunlop Tyres (NZ) Limited National Marketing
Office
10-20 Railway Avenue
PO Box 40343
Upper Hutt
Wellington,
New Zealand
Phone 04 528 8009

Goodyear's first on-line schoolkit contains information about the
history and development of rubber and the tyre industry,
environmental issues associated with the disposal and recycling of
rubber and other related stories and imagess that can be used freely
in school projects. Throughout the kit are projects that teachers or
students can develop through hotlinks to relevant websites
throughout the world.
GOODYEAR WORLDWIDE Goodyear
America Goodyear
Australia Goodyear
United Kingdom
Goodyear
Earthmover Tyres
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