2013 retrospective

摘要

Goodyear's Amiens grief At the end of January, Goodyear's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) management and Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe announced that they intended to exit the farm tire business in the EMEA region, in a move expected mainly to affect the company's Amiens North plant in France. This accounted for nearly 60 percent of Goodyear's EMEA farm tire production and employed 1,173 workers. In late February, Maurice Taylor, CEO of potential bidder Titan, the US tire and wheel manufacturer, caused a firestorm in already acrimonious negotiations by refusing to save the ailing Amiens operation. His grounds were that its "so-called workers" were lazy and only at their posts for three hours a day.