Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
American multinational tire manufacturer
Follow Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| 2025 | As part of the blimp's 100-year anniversary celebration, Goodyear is offering three U.S. residents a chance to win a ride in the blimp. |
| 2024 | Mark Stewart becomes the chief executive officer and president of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, succeeding Richard Kramer. |
| March 2024 | Le Monde published an investigation revealing Goodyear's alleged knowledge of defective tires causing multiple truck accidents and fatal injuries in France, Spain, and other European countries during the 2010s. |
| February 2021 | Goodyear announces the acquisition of Cooper Tire & Rubber Company for $2.5 billion, with the transaction closing in the second half of 2021. |
| August 19 2020 | President Donald Trump called for a boycott of Goodyear tires in response to the leaked training slide, which prohibited Trump campaign items like MAGA hats. |
| August 18 2020 | WIBW reported a leaked internal PowerPoint slide from a Goodyear training seminar in Topeka, Kansas, revealing a 'zero tolerance' policy on political attire that banned certain political merchandise. |
| January 2019 | Inducted as the first-ever nonhuman inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame. |
| 2018 | Ranked 187th on the Fortune 500 list, marking its 24th consecutive year on the list. |
| 2018 | Goodyear and Bridgestone create TireHub, a joint wholesale distribution network across the United States, and end distribution relationship with American Tire Distributors. |
| 2018 | Goodyear is ordered to pay $40.1 million to J. Walter Twidwell for asbestos exposure, and subsequently requests a new trial from the New York Supreme Court. |
| 2018 | The third semi-rigid airship completed Goodyear's new fleet. |
| December 2018 | Goodyear ceases operations in Venezuela due to lack of materials and rising costs from hyperinflation. |
| August 30 2018 | Wingfoot Three was christened by Shaesta Waiz, the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, in a ceremony in Akron. |
| November 17 2017 | Van Wagner Airship Group was purchased by Airsign Inc., which continued to operate an airship for Goodyear in China. |
| March 2017 | Spirit of Innovation was retired as the last remaining GZ-20 blimp. |
| April 2016 | Wingfoot Two, Goodyear's second semi-rigid airship, was unveiled. |
| 2015 | Goodyear returned to bicycle tire manufacturing after a break since 1976. |
| September 2015 | The "Spirit of Innovation" blimp was set to replace the "Spirit of America" in the Los Angeles market by late September. |
| August 8 2015 | The second day of the public retirement celebration for the "Spirit of America" blimp took place. |
| August 7 2015 | Goodyear held a public retirement celebration for the "Spirit of America" blimp, allowing the community a final opportunity to view the airship up close. |
| February 24 2015 | Goodyear agreed to pay over $16 million to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges related to alleged bribery by its African subsidiaries in Kenya and Angola, involving $3.2 million in bribes that generated $14,122,535 in illicit profits. |
| 2014 | Goodyear began replacing its three U.S. non-rigid airships with three new semi-rigid airships manufactured by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, each featuring a rigid internal frame. |
| August 23 2014 | Wingfoot One was christened by Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts. |
| March 2014 | Wingfoot One, the first new semi-rigid airship, was completed. |
| February 23 2014 | Spirit of Goodyear was retired in Pompano Beach after the Daytona 500, marking the beginning of GZ-20 fleet retirement. |
| 2013 | Goodyear opened a new global headquarters building in Akron, Ohio. |
| 2013 | Heavily inspired the design of an airship in the video game Grand Theft Auto V, featured prominently above the Los Santos (Los Angeles-based) game environment. |
| 2012 | The Lightship Group was acquired by Van Wagner Communications LLC, along with the American Blimp Corporation. |
| 2011 | The "Spirit of America" blimp was rebranded for the premiere of the animated film "Cars 2". |
| 2011 | Goodyear partners with Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik to build zeppelins, 70 years after the dissolution of the original Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation. |
| 2011 | The company underwent a significant rebranding, changing its name from Sava Tyres to Goodyear Dunlop Sava Tires, reflecting its partnership with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. |
| June 12 2011 | Spirit of Safety I caught fire while landing at Reichelsheim Airport in Germany. Pilot Michael Nerandzic heroically helped three passengers jump to safety before the blimp crashed, ultimately losing his own life in the burning airship. |
| 2010 | Start of the period when defective tires suspected of causing fatal truck accidents were in circulation in France, Spain, and other European countries. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Goodyear Dunlop Sava Tires, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company & Goodyear Blimp, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.