• 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
    A highlight of the Safety Leadership Summit was the sharing of best practices. Nearly 70 people from a mix of commercial and retail tire dealerships participated in the most recent summit.
    Joy Kopcha
    March 17, 2025
    Among the universal concerns facing tire dealers of every generation is how to prevent wheel-offs.
    American Tire Distributors
    ATD's latest bankruptcy proceeding has resulted in new ownership for the tire wholesale distributor, and leaders who once operated another wholesale distribution business.
    Joy Kopcha
    March 5, 2025
    American Tire Distributors Inc. (ATD) says it has completed the sale of "substantially all of its assets" and for the first time the company has outlined the company's new leadership...
    American Tire Distributors Inc.
    ATD's bankruptcy case interfered with the final payments the wholesale distributor was scheduled to pay Monro Inc. for the business it purchased in 2022. A balance of about $7 million lingered.
    Joy Kopcha
    Feb. 27, 2025
    The 2024 bankruptcy of American Tire Distributors Inc. (ATD) came before the company had fully paid Monro Inc. for the wholesale distribution operation ATD purchased two years...
    MTD
    “The strong year-on-year growth in Group business profit reflects successful efforts to increase sales volume, realize more optimal product prices and expand sales of consumer tires with sizes of 18-inches or larger,” Yokohama said in its report.
    Joy Kopcha
    Feb. 19, 2025
    Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. attributes its double-digit business profit success to increased sales volume, optimized pricing and sales of 18-inch and larger consumer tires.
    Steel City Tire
    Steel City Tire is an OTR-exclusive tire dealership, with four locations that cover five Midwestern states.
    Joy Kopcha
    Feb. 19, 2025
    Steel City Tire has grown into a four-location tire dealership that exclusively focuses on OTR tire customers. And co-owner Larry Jeffries sees plenty of room to grow.
    MTD
    Goodyear CEO and President Mark Stewart said the tiremaker will add SKUs, update five power lines and invest in the modernization of its Lawton, Okla. tire plant.
    Joy Kopcha
    Feb. 14, 2025
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. CEO and President Mark Stewart said Goodyear will introduce five power lines to markets around the world, add nearly 200 SKUs “in the high end, highly...