Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is a United States based global company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of passenger car, light truck, medium truck tires and subsidiaries that specialize in motorcycle and racing tires, as well as tread rubber and related equipment for the retread industry. With headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire has 59 manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design facilities within its family of companies located around the world. Cooper also owns the Avon Tyres brand, mostly used to produce tires for racing.
Its slogan is “The tire with two names….the company and the man who built it.”
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Cooper Tire became the official tire of the A1 Grand Prix, dubbed the World Cup of Motorsports, for the series’ initial 2005-2006 season. Cooper is under contract to produce slick tires and treaded rain tires for the series championship for the next two years as well.
Champ Car Atlantic Championship
Cooper Tire will become the official tire of the Champ Car Atlantic Championship beginning in 2007, and the company will also serve as the presenting sponsor of this open-wheel development series.
Cooper is heavily involved in the sport of drifting by supplying tires to several drifters in both the Need for Speed Formula D Drift series and U.S. Drift series.
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