BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE FAST FACTS
DID YOU KNOW?
- Bridgestone Group has been named General Motors Global Supplier of the Year for the sixth straight year (1995-2000).
- Since 1990, Bridgestone/Firestone has received supplier quality awards from Honda of America, General Motors, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., AutoAlliance International, Inc., Diamond-Star Motor Corp., New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., Freightliner Corp. and Ford Motor Co.
- In February 2001, Bridgestone/Firestone launched Tiresafety.com - a Web site dedicated entirely to tire safety. Tiresafety.com has a free monthly email subscription option for consumers. Email reminders to check tire pressure and to encourage tire rotation are sent periodically. This email reminder service has an "unsubscribe" rate of less than 10 percent.
- A Spanish language version of Tiresafety.com was launched in September 2001.
- In 2001, Bridgestone/Firestone has given away nearly three million tire gauges to consumers and dealers. Almost 50,000 tire gauges were sent to subscribers of Tiresafety.com.
- Bridgestone/Firestone produced and distributed more than 3 million “Inflate, Rotate, Evaluate” tire safety brochures via its 10,000 retail points of sale throughout the U.S. in 2001. The Spanish language version, “Infle, Rote, Inspeccione” is currently being distributed via retail outlets.
- Bridgestone/Firestone has hosted 27 "Drive & Learn" educational events throughout 2001. Nearly, 5000 guests (dealers and media) from across the United States took advantage of this hands-on driving and tire testing experience.
- Firestone has been the only brand tire applied to Saturns since the start of production in 1990.
- Firestone and Bridgestone brand tires come as original equipment on more than 175 different car and light truck models sold in the United States and Canada.
- Firestone has won more Indy 500® races than all of the other tire companies combined.
- More than three quarters of Firestone tire models received a traction performance grade of “A” in NHTSA’s 1999 “Uniform Tire Quality Grading Report.” Firestone had the most tire models with a traction grade of “AA,” the highest possible rating.
- Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. (BFS) implemented ISO 14001 ("ISO 14001" or "EMS") at 24 major facilities across the Americas in the two years before "Y2K." As a result, Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. and Bridgestone Corporation (Japan) lead the tire and rubber industry (and many other industries) globally regarding ISO 14001 certification.
- The Council on Economic Priorities (now the Center for Responsibility in Business) from 1999 through today rates Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. as number one in environmental performance among American tire manufacturers. The Council on Economic Priorities develops comparisons of the environmental performance of companies in various industry sectors for use by consumer and investors.
- The Bridgestone/Firestone Trust Fund in 2000 donated more than $3.9 million to organizations across the country, benefiting such critical needs as literacy education, scholarships, chemical dependency rehabilitation, healthcare, civil rights, environmental conservation, housing, public radio, television and museums.
- Bridgestone/Firestone's Warren plant received the coveted Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) STAR award from the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1997 and was recertified in 2000. No other tire company or tire plant has been awarded this prestigious honor which recognizes outstanding safety and health management. Of the more than 6.5 million worksites in the United States, the Warren plant is one of only 800 sites to be recognized as an OSHA VPP STAR site.
