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Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
住友ゴム工業株式会社

Type	Public K.K.
Traded as	:
Industry	Automotive
Founded	(1909; 108 years ago (1909))
Headquarters	3-6-9 Wakinohama-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-0072, Japan
Key people	Tetsuji Mino (Chairman) Ikuji Ikeda (President and CEO)
Products	Tires Industrial rubber products Sports equipment
Revenue	$ 7.43 billion (FY 2013) (Y 780.6 billion) (FY 2013)
Net income	$ 426.6 million (FY 2013) (Y 44.8 billion) (FY 2013)
Number of employees	26,773 (as of March 28, 2014)
Website	Official website
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$ 7.43 billion (FY 2013)

$ 426.6 million (FY 2013)

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. (住友ゴム工業株式会社, Sumitomo Gomu Kōgyo Kabushiki-gaisha) is a global tire and rubber company based in Japan. It is part of the Sumitomo Group. The company makes a wide range of rubber based products, including automobile tires, golf balls and tennis balls. Sumitomo brands include Dunlop Tyres, Falken Tire and Ohtsu Tire.

The company traces its origins to 1909, when the Sumitomo Group made an investment in Dunlop Japan, the newly formed Japanese subsidiary of the British company Dunlop Rubber. Over the years Sumitomo and Dunlop developed a close business relationship, and in 1963 the Sumitomo Group acquired control of Dunlop Japan and renamed it Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.

In 1985, when Dunlop Rubber was taken over by BTR plc, the company acquired the automobile tire assets of Dunlop, including the right to use the Dunlop brand on automobile tires. The acquisition did not include the US and Australian businesses, which were separately owned, but in 1986 Sumitomo also acquired the Dunlop Tire Corporation of the US from its management.