Article: Investments.

The world's major tyre companies have committed nearly $1200 million in the past 12 months to capacity expansion projects, which would add more than 35 million units of new capacity annually starting in 2004.

This amount is 25-percent less than the $1600 million in projects announced from August 2001 to August 2002.

In general, capital investments by the top dozen tyre makers were down by about 6.5 percent in fiscal 2002, down to $3910 million, according to an analysis of their financial reports. That is around 5.1 percent of corporate sales, down from 5.5 percent in fiscal 2001.

Bridgestone

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