• Joy Kopcha

    Managing Editor
    Phone: (330) 598 - 0338

    After more than a dozen years working as a newspaper reporter in Kansas, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, Joy Kopcha joined Modern Tire Dealer as senior editor in 2014. She has covered murder trials, a prison riot and more city council, county commission, and school board meetings than she cares to remember.

    MTD
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is no longer utilizing ATD as a distributor for its Cooper and Mickey Thompson branded products.
    Joy Kopcha
    June 2, 2025
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. says American Tire Distributors Inc. is no longer distributing its Cooper and Mastercraft branded tires.
    MTD
    Monro plans to close 145 underperforming stores this year as part of an overall improvement plan.
    Joy Kopcha
    May 28, 2025
    On the heels of a fiscal fourth quarter that resulted in a loss of $21.2 million, Monro Inc.’s new President and CEO Peter Fitzsimmons has unveiled the initial steps of an improvement...
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
    Goodyear considers itself to be in a good position given its base of North American manufacturing. and says its exposure to the tariff headwinds is probably about one-quarter of that of other tiremakers.
    Joy Kopcha
    May 8, 2025
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. CEO and President Mark Stewart said the tiremaker doesn’t yet have “a clear read” on whether the flow of imported tires into the U.S. has slowed.
    Continental AG
    Continental is working to mitigate the effect of additional tariffs on its U.S. production. The company says the value of its U.S. import volume across all three business units is $4.1 billion.
    Joy Kopcha
    May 7, 2025
    As part of its first quarter financial report, Continental AG provided a "tariff deep dive" in response to President Donald Trump's ongoing trade actions.