Company Profile

Bridgestone is now a household name when it comes to getting people from A to B. And rightly so. The company makes tyres for nearly everything that moves on wheels. The Bridgestone Corporation section will share with you the ABC's and 1,2,3's of the organisation, with a link to the global site and access to annual reports. It also includes our policies on environment and safety and past successes.

All companies have a beginning. And every company has a founder. But there are few companies in which its founder was clearer about his purpose than Bridgestone. Even before his venture into the world of tyres, Shojiro Ishibashi proved he was quite an entrepreneur. In 1925, he pioneered the mass production of Tabi; a traditional Japanese footwear in Kurume City in the southern island of Kyushu. Spurred by Japan's rapid industrialisation, he conducted research in the tyre market and made his first tyre in 1930. In 1931, Ishibashi's realised his dream of becoming the first Japanese tyre manufacturer when he established the Bridgestone Tyre Co. Ltd.

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Bridgestone is regarded by the car manufacturers as one of the leading companies in Runflat Tyre technology with its Bridgestone Potenza RE040 RFT. As a result of that, BMW and Lexus fit the RE040 RFT to their respective sport cars, Z8 and SC430.