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Our Presence

People at work

In Europe we are present in 20 countries and employ over 12,000 people with:

–         17 national sales companies

–         7 tyre manufacturing plants in France, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain(and 1 under
           construction in Poland)

–         2 factories for intermediate products in Spain and Belgium and 7 retreading facilities

–         A major R&D and testing centre in Italy and state-of-the-art Proving Ground

–         3 European logistics centres in Belgium, Czech Republic and Spain

–         Leading brands that include Bridgestone, Firestone and Dayton.

–         Over 1,900 partner and company owned retail outlets


Bridgestone established itself in Europe through the acquisition of Firestone in 1988. Our European headquarters is in Brussels and where our corporate and Europe wide functions are located. From here we set policies and objectives, supervise R&D, manufacturing  and logistics, and providing local operations with support services.