Founded The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in August 1900 Original Product Carriage Tires Current Product(s) Industrial Products, Building Products, Fibers & Textiles, Polymers, as well as Tires. Number of employees 45,000 throughout the Americas. Milestones Tires chosen by Henry Ford in 1906 Shojiro Ishibashi founds Bridgestone Tire Co. in 1931 In 1988, Bridgestone purchases Firstone
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