One hundred years old last year, Dunlop Aircraft Tyres received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in July that recognised six years of export growth, now running at nearly 80% of turnover. Ian Edmondson is the man behind the wheel of a British tyre company going places.
Synonymous with tyres and sports goods, Dunlop is an iconic British manufacturing name with a long pedigree. But these days how many people actually know what Dunlop does, where and under whose ownership? Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. Ltd was formed in 1889 in Dublin, to commercialise John Boyd Dunlop’s patent for pneumatic tyres for bicycles.…
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