Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is a United States-based company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of replacementautomobile and truck tires, and subsidiaries that specialize in medium truck, motorcycle and racing tires. With headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire has 60 manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design facilities within its worldwide family of subsidiary companies. In July 1960 the company became a publicly held corporation, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Cooper tires are most often sold by independent dealers, and can be purchased online as well.
Cooper owns the UK Avon Tyres brand, which produces tires for motorcycles, road cars, and for motor racing.
The company slogan is "The tire with two names...the company and the man who built it."
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