tyre founded netherlands 1909 products tyres for car agricultural and industrial applications and bicycles . number of employees 1 800 website www.apollovredestein.com apollo vredestein b.v. is part of apollo tyres ltd from india . apollo vredestein b.v. has its head office in enschede the netherlands . it designs manufactures and sells high quality tyres under the apollo and vredestein brand names via offices in europe and north america . vredestein products include car tyres tyres for agricultural and industrial applications and bicycle tyres . a significant number of the car tyres are designed by the italian design house giugiaro design . the brand is over 100 years old . contents 1 history 2 structure 2.1 offices in the world 2.2 management 3 references 4 external links history edit emile louis constant schiff 1 became the owner of the nederlandse guttapercha maatschappij in delft the forerunner of apollo vredestein on 6 november 1908 . in 1909 the company moved to loosduinen and changed its name to nv rubberfabriek vredestein . the name vredestein comes from the name of the farm schiff bought in loosduinen in 1909 and where he first started making rubber . the company initially specialised in all kinds of rubber products including shoe heels tennis balls floor covering boots and indoor football balls . on 13 september 1934 most of the factory in loosduinen was lost in a fire . reconstruction started immediately and the bicycle tyre factory in doetinchem was established in the same year . in 1946 the nv nederlandsch amerikaansche autobanden fabriek vredestein was founded in enschede with the american company b.f. goodrich owning just over 20 % of the shares . a year later schiff laid the cornerstone of the plant in enschede . 2 the growth of the company accelerated in 1962 when it merged with n.v. rubberfabrieken hevea in raalte . in 1971 the company became wholly owned by b.f. goodrich and vredestein s products were soon finding their way to 125 different countries . under the influence of globalisation in the 1970s the vredestein brand increasingly came to focus on car agricultural industrial and two wheeler tyres . the oil crisis prompted many mergers in the tyre industry during these years . in 1976 the dutch state took over 49 % of the shares in vredestein and two per cent were obtained by the stichting tot voortzetting van vredestein foundation for the continuation of vredestein . while the remaining 49 % initially remained in the possession of b.f. goodrich they were later taken over by the foundation for a symbolic sum . in the early 1990s the company was acquired from the state by three dutch investors . 3 a collaboration was established with the italian designer giorgetto giugiaro in the late 1990s . giugiaro design designs high performance tyres for vredestein . in 2009 vredestein was acquired by india s apollo tyres ltd 4 and the company name was changed to apollo vredestein b.v. the bulk of production still takes place in enschede . in january 2013 apollo tyres ltd announced the opening of its global r & d centre in enschede the netherlands that will develop and test car and van tyres for the company . 5 on 12 june 2013 apollo tyres ltd announced the acquisition of cooper tire & rubber company . in a us 2.5 billion deal . this would have turned apollo tyre ltd into the world s seventh largest tyre company with combined global revenue of an estimated us 6.6 billion according to tire review data 6 but on 30 december 2013 the cooper acquisition was called off . 7 structure edit offices in the world edit apollo vredestein b.v. has got offices in the netherlands apollo vredestein b.v. enschede germany apollo vredestein gmbh vallendar belgium n.v. apollo vredestein belux s.a. bruxelles france apollo vredestein france s.a. paris austria apollo vredestein ges . m.b.h. wenen switzerland apollo vredestein schweiz ag baden italy apollo vredestein italia s.r.l. rimini united kingdom apollo vredestein ltd london spain apollo vredestein iberica s.a. cityparc . edificio bruselas . barcelona sweden apollo vredestein d ck ab hisings backa sw apollo vredestein norge a s hisings backa nw usa apollo vredestein tyres north america inc. metuchen hungary apollo vredestein kft . budapest poland apollo vredestein polska sp . z.o.o. warszawa others apollo vredestein export enschede management edit onkar s. kanwar chairman apollo tyres ltd neeraj kanwar vice chairman and managing director apollo tyres ltd mathias heimann ceo apollo vredestein b.v. 8 references edit http www.iisg.nl ondernemers pdf pers 1305 01.pdf http www.rezulteo tyres.co.uk vredestein tyres car tyre brand http www.dfwperformancetires.com about vredestein.asp http www.thehindubusinessline.com todays paper apollo tyres roll into europe today article993179.ece ref archive http www.autokompas.nl banden item 13523 apollo vredestein opent nieuw rd center in enschede http www.tirereview.com article 114673 apollo tyre buying cooper in 25 billion deal.aspx http online.wsj.com news articles sb10001424052702304137304579290021473771410 http apollotyres.com europe documents pressroom a02eb173 43b9 49d7 90e7 c33ad56ab5a4.pdf external links edit apollo vredestein b.v. website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title apollo vredestein b.v. & oldid 733687105 categories tire manufacturerscycle parts manufacturersmanufacturing companies of the netherlandsdutch brandscompanies established in 1909 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects 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