Goodyear's sales better than budgeted

American tyre maker Goodyear last year posted bigger than expected sales on the Romanian market. “Goodyear’s turnover in Romania rose 27% last year,” Razvan Bosomoiu, marketing director of Goodyear Romania said. The percentage is higher than the estimates the company had made early last year, targeting 20% growth. “We also managed to boost profitability, as the results in 2003 were 42% better in this respect than in the previous year,” Bosomoiu said. He would not reveal the value of those indexes, though. Previous statements of Goodyear Romania officials showed the sales to be worth more than 20 million euros in 2002, which means they came close to 23 million euros last year. The year 2003 was a time of increased interest from the American group for the Romanian market, following the establishment of the Goodyear branch here that imports and distributes the five brands it sells on this market: Goodyear, Dunlop, Fulda, Debica and Sava. ZF