Firestone employs 700 people at the Des Moines factory, where it makes tractor tires. The company tests new products in the ...

The major factors in the decision were the age and size of the plant, which was built as a tank factory in 1942 and was purchased by the then Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. and converted to making ...

TOKYO—A quarter century ago, the trend of foreign companies buying U.S. tire manufacturers hit its zenith. The date: Feb. 16, 1988. The deal: Bridgestone offered to buy a controlling interest in ...

Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. filed a federal civil suit against the downtown Sacramento bar and restaurant in July 2017. In it, the $30 billion Tokyo-based corporation sought financial damages as ...

Firestone will debut a new and eco-friendly natural rubber guayule race tire May 27 during the Miller Lite Carb Day IndyCar Pit Stop Challenge. The tire will make its competition debut as the ...

On February 7, 1938, a man by the name of Harvey S. Firestone died of coronary thrombosis—or, a blood clot in the heart. He was the founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which he kicked ...

Last week PBS’s Frontline aired a documentary investigating links between Firestone Tire & Rubber Company and the notorious Liberian warlord, Charles Taylor. The story essentially painted ...

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey Samuel Firestone in 1900 to supply pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled ...

In 1944, the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company approved a $1 million donation to finance Princeton’s new library — with one condition. The Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library had to serve the company’s ...

The City of Memphis' industrial development board wants to purchase the 71-acre Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. site in New Chicago.