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Originally Posted by eschaider

I live in California and we have a lot of special situations out here including being the world's largest open air sanitarium.

The fact that so few companies actually have a tire offering should provide you with considerable insight into the market's appetite for those tires and the quality of business opportunity they represent to the potential manufacturer.


Ed

I agree with you Ed. Though it could be that these multinationals have a business model that only allows for extremely high volume products/runs, which boils down to management having zero interest in a smaller market. Smaller runs might still be profitable but not fit the model.

That does not necessarily hold for smaller specialty manufacturers. I think I read that Cooper was consumed by Goodyear in a merger, but they might be an option, if Coker does not want to play, since Cooper makes Avons and MTs. Perhaps they could cook a higher performance radial in a Billboard mold...