Bridgestone Firestone Company Profile

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Company Name	Bridgestone Firestone
Website	firestone.com
Snippet	Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey Firestone in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires[2] for fire apparatus,[3] and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era. Firestone soon saw the huge potential for marketing tires for automobiles, and the company was a pioneer in the mass production of tires. Harvey Firestone had a personal friendship with Henry Ford, and used this to become the original equipment supplier of Ford Motor Company automobiles, and was also active in the replacement market.[4]
Type	Subsidiary
Parent	Bridgestone
Founded	1900
Founder	Harvey Firestone
Revenue	$ 2.09 billion (2004)
Website	firestone.com
Industry	Manufacturing
Products	Tires
Key people	Gordon Knapp, (CEO and President), Bill Thompson (COO)
Area served	Worldwide
Headquarters	200 4th Ave S., Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Number of employees	33,000 [1]

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