Michelin

Michelin (full name: Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, "French manufacturer of tyres Michelin"), based in Clermont-Ferrand, France in the Auvergne région of France, is primarily a tyre (In American English, tire) manufacturer but is also famous for its series of travel guides and road maps (Michelin maps), its historic emblem (Bibendum, the Michelin Man), and the ratings its guide awards to expensive restaurants (Michelin stars).

History
Founded on May 28, 1889, Michelin's activities date back to 1830 in vulcanized rubber, before they moved into tyres for bicycles and later for cars. Michelin owned the automobile manufacturer Citroën between 1934 and 1976.

In 1988, Michelin acquired the tyre and rubber manufacturing divisions of the American B.F. Goodrich Company founded in 1870. Two years later, they bought out Uniroyal Inc., a business founded in 1892 as the U.S. Rubber Company.

Following the 2005 United States Grand Prix, where Michelin would not allow the Formula One teams it supplies to race due to safety concerns, Michelin's share price fell by 2.5% (though it recovered later the same day). On June 28, Michelin announced that it would offer compensation to all race fans who had purchased tickets for the Grand Prix. The company committed to refunding the price of all tickets for the race. Additionally, they announced that they would provide 20,000 complimentary tickets for the 2006 race to spectators who had attended the 2005 event.

Bibendum

Bibendum (The Michelin Man) as he looked in the early 1990sThe company's symbol is Bibendum, introduced in 1898 by French artist Marius Rossillon, and one of the world's oldest trademarks. André Michelin apparently commissioned the creation of this jolly, rotund figure after his brother, Édouard, observed that a display of stacked tyres resembled a human form. Today the "Bibendum" is one of the world's most recognized trademarks, representing Michelin in over 150 countries. The term refers to the slogan nunc est bibendum ("now is the time to drink") used by Michelin in the early 20th century. This old Latin tag comes from Horace's Odes but in French refers to the way the tyres were said to "drink up" the road and give a smooth ride. "Bib" also appeared in early Michelin advertisements drinking barrels of broken glass and nails, a reference to the durability of Michelin's tyres, thus adding another dimension to the "nunc est bibendum" tagline.

The name of the plump tyre-man has entered the language to describe the appearance of someone obese or wearing comically bulky clothing: "How can I wrap up warm without looking like the Michelin Man?".

However, that has changed over the years since the introduction of Bibendum in 1898. Rossillon's logo was based on bicycle tyres, and their hero wore glasses and smoked a cigar. Eventually, as the years advanced, Bib lost his glasses and cigar and as automotive tyres became a larger market, his figure was changed to reflect automotive tyres being the dominant figure, and the logo frequently changed to reflect wider automotive tyres.

By the 1980's, Bibendum was being shown as a running Bib, and in 1998, a slimmed-down version became the company's new logo. The slimming of the logo reflected both lower-profile, smaller tyres on sport compact automobiles and a more athletic, slimmer, and trimmer Bib.

Bibendum made a brief guest appearance in Asterix as the chariot wheel dealer in Asterix in Switzerland.

Products

Michelin (Red) Guide
See: The Michelin Guide to restaurants and hotels. .

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Management
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