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Article: Lithely anticipating retirement? ; OK Tire's Blythe's sort of ready to relinquish reins.

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October 22, 2001
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LANGLEY, British Columbia-OK Tire Stores Inc. President Don Blythe soon will retire from the tire industry. Well, sort of.

OK Tire's board of directors recently named former Bombardier Inc. executive Ken MacLeod CEO of the Langley-based dealer-owned cooperative and the successor to 62-year-old Mr. Blythe, who will work as Mr. MacLeod's consultant until his scheduled retirement in March 2003. But Mr. Blythe doesn't plan to exit the tire industry to shore up his golf game. Rather, he wants to succeed Mel Hennig as executive director of the Western Canada Tire Dealers (WCTD) association.

``It's in my blood and so, therefore, I guess I just can't say I'm ...

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