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Bridgestone Americas

www.bfusa.com

 
Bridgestone Americas` corporate family (BSA) traces its roots to the establishment of The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in August 1900. It was then that 31-year-old Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938) started tire production with 12 employees in Akron, Ohio.   On the other side of the globe in 1931, Shojiro Ishibashi (1885-1976) created Bridgestone Tire Company Ltd. (later renamed Bridgestone Corporation). He fashioned the company name by reversing the English translation of his own: “Ishibashi,” which literally means “stone bridge” in Japanese.   Bridgestone Corporation purchased Firestone in 1988 for $2.6 billion, transforming the companies` combined operations into the world`s largest tire and rubber ...
  • Number of Employees: 1K-5K
  • Annual Revenue: $500M-1 Billion
  • www.bfusa.com
  • 535 Marriott Dr P O Box 140990
    Nashville, TN USA 37214
  • Phone: 615.937.1000

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