| In 2005 Modern Tyre Service
celebrated 40 years in business, started back in 1965 by Jimmy
Byrne the company is still family owned and run today.
Jimmy Byrne first began his own tyre business in 1962 when
he set up a remould manufacturing factory in Lisbellaw, Co.Fermanagh.
Then in 1965, he opened his first retail / wholesale tyre
depot in the Old Railway Yard in Enniskillen. Over the years,
as his four son’s & daughter entered the business
allowing Jimmy time to identify opportunities within the tyre
retail sector, sites where purchased in various prominent
towns throught Northern Ireland and the eldest son’s
left home to run these depot’s.
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As the company expanded Modern Tyre Service made its first
major acquisition by purchasing Ards Tyre Service in Oct 1995,
after the success of this came further acquisitions in Belfast,
Holywood, Lisburn, Larne, Ballymena bringing the total number
of depots to 16. Around this time Modern Tyre Service recruited
a financial controller James McKee (F.C.A.) from Local accountancy
firm Grant Thornton, who had managed Modern’s accounts
for many years, and a general manager Charles Corscadden from
Bridgestone who had over 25 years experience in the tyre industry.
The time was coming for something big and it came in Aug
2002 when Modern purchased the Northern Ireland arm of U.K.
giant Motorway Tyre & Exhaust centres. This was the largest
single purchase of tyre depots in Northern Ireland history,
making headline new across the province.
These acquisitions have made Modern Tyre Service into a province-wide
network of 26 retail fast-fit centres, an alloy wheel wholesale
company & a Southern Ireland tyre wholesale company, making
it the largest independent tyre retail / wholesale company
in Ireland.
Modern Tyre Service prides itself on offering an unrivalled
level of customer service through the retail, fleet, commercial,
agricultural and wholesale markets offering the widest selection
of tyres from the leading manufactures as well as batteries,
exhausts and alloy wheels.
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