General Tire.General Tire The General Tire and Rubber Company is an American manufacturer of tires for motor vehicles. General Tire was founded in 1915 in Akron, Ohio by William F. O'Neil. In 1943 General Tire branched out from its core business by purchasing the Yankee Network and the radio stations signed a technology services agreement with Integrated Systems Solutions Corp. (ISSC ISSC International Ship Security Certificate ISSC Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference ISSC International Social Sciences Council ISSC Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation ISSC Information Systems Steering Committee ISSC Information Systems Sub-Committee ), a subsidiary of International Business Machines (IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ), to manage its information services See Information Systems. functions. The agreement will support General Tire with its strategic initiatives for information technology. It will also provide General Tire access to advances in information technology while directing critical resources toward its core business. Nearly 80 General Tire employees are affected by the agreement. All are being offered full-time employment with ISSC's business partner, Computer Task Group, the Buffalo, NY-based firm which is providing services under the agreement with ISSC. |
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