Bridgestone. (Acquisitions, Expansions).
Japanese Japanese (jăp'ənēz`), language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and tiremaker Bridgestone returned to profitability in the
first half of the year as sales in the U.S. recovered from the aftermath
of a massive tire recall at its Bridgestone/Firestone subsidiary.
Bridgestone announced plans to invest $248 million to expand global
production to cope with the shift to larger tires, as well as growing
demand for tires in industrializing nations. Bridgestone will stop
producing some lower grade tires in Japan and switch to producing more
of the larger and more expensive tires. Production will go up in Asia,
including Thailand Thailand (tī`lănd, –lənd), Thai Prathet Thai [land of the free], officially Kingdom of Thailand, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 65,444,000), 198,455 sq mi (514,000 sq km), Southeast Asia. , Indonesia Indonesia (ĭn'dənē`zhə), officially Republic of Indonesia, republic (2005 est. pop. 241,974,000), c.735,000 sq mi (1,903,650 sq km), SE Asia, in the Malay Archipelago. and China, as well as in Poland and South
America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. .
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