Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is the parent company of a global family of companies that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sale of passenger car, light truck, medium truck, motorcycle and racing tires. Cooper’s headquarters is in Findlay, Ohio, USA, with manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design operations within its family of companies located in more than one dozen countries around the world. Cooper was established in 1914 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CTB. Cooper officially announced its entry into the Chinese market in April 2006, and established its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Shanghai. The Cooper Tire Asia-Pacific Technology Center was established in Shanghai in June 2008 to support research and development and testing of products for the Chinese market and export overseas. In January 2014, the Asia Technical Center was relocated to the site of Cooper’s Kunshan tire manufacturing facility, where a new, advanced center was created to integrate global advanced technology and skilled resources that continue to promote the research and development of new products to meet the needs of customers and tire consumers into the future.