Tag: Maurice Taylor

Roadbuilding

France blasts U.S. CEO: We do too work and you’re nuts.

Oh yeah, it’s on. France has fired back at what their social media are calling “le French bashing” by a salty American business leader. A cabinet minister and a factory union leader lead le charge, the former calling US’s Titan Tire CEO “ignorant” and the latter saying he should be institutionalized. Our blunt-speaking CEO in […]

February 21, 2013

Roadbuilding

French workers don’t work: U.S. CEO to French Minister

Scare bleu! Maurice Taylor, CEO of US tire maker Titan, writing to France’s Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, after the minister asked Titan to buy a Goodyear tire factory in Northern France that is about to shut down: “I have visited that factory a couple of times. The French workforce gets paid high wages, but works only […]

February 20, 2013