Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is an American company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing, and sales of replacement automobile and truck tires, and has subsidiaries that specialize in medium truck, motorcycle, and racing tires. With headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire has 60 manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical, and design facilities within its worldwide family of subsidiary companies, including the UK-based Avon Tyres brand, which produces tires for motorcycles, road cars, and race cars.
| Company type | Subsidiary |
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Traded as |
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1914 (as M and M Manufacturing Company) Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
| Founders | John F. Schaefer Claude E. Hart |
| Headquarters | Findlay, Ohio, U.S. |
Key people | Thomas P. Capo (Nonexecutive chairman) Bradley E. Hughes (President & CEO) Chris Eperjesy (Vice President & CFO) |
| Products | Tires |
| Revenue | US$ 2.52 billion (2020) |
| US$ 231 million (2020) | |
Net income | US$ 143 million (2020) |
| Total assets | US$ 2.972 billion (2020) |
| Total equity | US$ 1.411 billion (2020) |
Number of employees | 10,000 (2020) |
| Parent | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company |
| Subsidiaries | Avon Tyres Mastercraft Tires Mickey Thompson Tires & Wheels Roadmaster Tires Dean Tires StarFire Tires |
| Website | us |
| Footnotes / references | |
From 1960, the company was a publicly held corporation and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Goodyear in June 2021.
The company slogan is "The tire with two names ... the company and the man who built it."