JK Tyre receives TATA Motors Best Supplier of the Year award

CHENNAI: JK Tyre has been honoured with this year’s TATA Motors Best Supplier of the Year award at the TATA Motors Vendor’s Conference 2015 held in Pune on October 6.
The TATA Motors Supplier of the Year award recognizes the overall performances, contribution and commitment of its most valued partner and involves a rigorous selection process.
Vivek Kamra, ‎president, India, JK Tyre and Industries Ltd, received the award from Cyrus Mistry, chairman of Tata Group, and B B Parekh, chief purchase officer at Tata Motors.
JK Tyre has been working very closely with Tata Motors team on various new products and adding capacity to meet growing requirement of truck radial tyres.
JK Tyre and Tata Motors have long been partners and run the Customer Loyalty Program for Tata’s over 11,000 Fleets. JK Tyre also works with Tata Motors to organise regular visits of key Tata customers to the tyre plant.
JK Tyre has been the official tyre supplier for the two successful editions of T1 Prima Truck Racing since the championship’s introduction in India in 2014. JK Tyre specially developed JETRACING tyres for the races and were lauded by the international drivers and experts for the “reliable” and “grippy” qualities.
Part of the JK Organisation, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd is a leading tyre manufacturer in India and among the top 25 manufacturers in the world with a wide range of products catering to diverse business segments in the automobile industry.
JK Tyre has global presence in 100 countries across six continents with six plants in India and three in Mexico. Currently, the capacity across nine plants exceeds 20 million tyres per annum. JK Tyre pioneered radial technology in India way back in 1977 and today is the leader in Truck Bus Radial segment.