Goodrich Corporation

Goodrich Corporation (formerly the BF Goodrich Company, BFGoodrich ) is a U.S. company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company is listed on the S & P 500.

The company was founded in 1870 by Benjamin Goodrich Goodrich, Tew & Co. in Akron. In 1880, the company changed the company to BF Goodrich Company, in the 1980s, BFGoodrich and 2001 to Goodrich Corporation.

Among other inventions, the company is also responsible for the introduction of the zipper.

1981 achieved the BF Goodrich worldwide annual sales of 1.16 billion U.S. dollars, and had a world market share of car tires of 3.9 percent.

In 1986 the company merged with Uniroyal (formerly the United States Rubber Company ) and became one of the world's leading manufacturers of tires and rubber. 1988 makes the product range was sold with the brand of tires to Michelin, Goodrich, which they still marketed today. 1997 acquired the Goodrich Company Pipe Industries and Coltec Industries; In 2002 the company TRW Inc. (formerly Lucas Aerospace). The spin-off of the specialty chemicals and diesel engine division (now EnPro ) and the change in the name completed the corporate conversion.

2011 Unternhmen was acquired by United Technologies Corporation.

Others

Due to the notoriety of the brand of tires Goodrich, the company used prior to their sale in the advertising slogan " See that blimp up in the sky? We're the other guys! ". This is also alluded to competitors Goodyear, which also manufactures blimps.