Hankook celebrates the 70th anniversary of its successful work. Instead of pompous ceremonies, the company plans to continue to focus on its continuous growth, follow your promise to customers and subsequent decades, with the passion to take all the calls, to remain committed and to conduct investment policy in different regions.
On the seventieth year of our existence, we together with our customers we want to lay the foundation stone of the first strategic for the next seventy years. At the celebration of the anniversary on May 10, the head of the European Division of Hankook, Jin-Wook Choi noted that, to date, we have substantially increased our investment in branding, products and services that will help us on our way to a leading global company in every respect. So inevitably the discovery of two more factories Hankook, which in the future even more effectively will help meet the growing demand. In addition, the company invests in the construction of its own global research centre, as well as increases its presence in the famous international events in the world of Motorsport. The company cooperates with Audi and Mercedes Benz in the most popular international body DTM and with Ferrari with the 24-hour race in Le Mans. He See-Ahn, Vice President of Hankook Tire Europe sales and marketing, continuing the theme, said: Europe is the largest market for our company, and recognized the high quality of our products over the past years we were able to show significant growth here. As an acknowledged European tyre manufacturer, we will continue to invest in our presence in Europe. For example, due to the rapid completion of the power expansion of our factory in Hungary. This will allow us to reduce the time of delivery and will allow even more effectively to produce our products that will further increase the number of our satisfied customers in Europe. The company, founded in 1941 year in Korea, for 70 years has grown into a leading global tire manufacturer. Today the company occupies seventh place in the industry by turnover. Over the past 70 years, Hankook Tire has invested a lot in research and development, the objective of which is the continuous improvement of the quality of tires. In 2011 the year Hankook Tire becomes exclusive tyre supplier for the most popular body DTM racing series.