IM 2018 January 18 | Page 77

HIGH PROFILE Kal Tire now supplies tyre management services throughout Australia But in detail by country, Zambia has gone well for us. As I said it gave us access to a successful Goodyear distribution business in mining, including underground. But we were also able to bring other brands to offer miners the best value proposition; and the customers appreciate this. Our increased presence in Zambia is also boosting our market development in DRC in terms of repair and site work. And we now have a great relationship with the larger open pit mines, which continues. The country is challenging with different mine owners having different ideas about what they want from their mine service provider. And there is a real mix of surface and underg