RE: Avon tyres to close UK factory - 2

This has been published in a number of places. Seems the noises coming out of Goodyear are not good as they want to retire the Avon motorcycle tyre brand.

""With respect to the Avon classic race tyres:
TGA Racing Services
3 December at 14:37 ·
As you are mostly aware, Goodyear have taken over Cooper Tire who owned Avon & have recently announced that the Avon factory at Melksham will be closed by the end of 2023.
TGA @ Molnar Precision Ltd are a major outlet for the Avon range of Classic Motorcycle Race tyres, with the Race Support Service that you see run by Dave at CRMC race meetings only a small element of our business which literally involves sending tyres all around the world. This gives us access to decision making personnel within the Goodyear operation, but you must be under no illusion that with a total market of around 5,000 tyres per year spread across about 50 patterns our business is miniscule in Goodyear terms. I can tell you, that the broad Goodyear plan was to completely stop all Classic Motorcycle Race Tyre production when Melksham closes. At least they are now talking to us about a 'post Melksham plan' for 'our' tyres.
Melksham will remain open until the end of 2023, with the intention being to run at full capacity until September before winding down. In an attempt to ensure that our types of tyres are higher on the priority list, we have placed orders for over 1,000 tyres - that's over quarter of a million pounds worth of stock & we do need our customers, that's you, to support us if we are to carry this forward!!
The tyres we are trying to save are:
AM22 110/80-18 Front
AM22 110/80-18 Rear
AM26 90/90-18
AM26 90/90-19
AM26 100/90-19
AM22 120/70-16 (FZ)
AM23 130/70-18 & Cantilever version
Storm 120/70-17 Front
Storm 160/60-17 Rear
This is a 'best case scenario' and tyres outside this list have zero chance of being made long term.
To make us all even unhappier, Goodyear have announced a 'realignment' of prices which now sees AM22's & AM26's at around £315 each and AM23's at £365 incl VAT.
You can keep up to date with developments through our Facebook pages and our website."

Zitat von himoverthere im Beitrag #17

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Makes me laugh when big business make decisions to cut costs. They do not give a toss for places where they have employed people for many years, and care nothing for history.
Also makes me laugh when people don't like it when factories that have had their market restricted by a referendum decide to restructure. Let us face it the UK is outside of the EU and a small market now, it is what the majority of the population voted for.

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