Giti Tire Group

Who owns Giti Tire?

Giti Tire Group is a private, family controlled company. Enki Tan serves as executive chairman, and the group is headquartered in Singapore. Its listed China arm, Giti Tire Corporation, trades on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under ticker 600182.

Is Giti Tire a Chinese company?

Giti is headquartered in Singapore with roots in Indonesia. Most of its manufacturing is in China, and it also produces in Indonesia and Richburg, South Carolina.

What brands does Giti own?

The group markets Giti, GT Radial, Primewell, Dextero, and Runway tires, and is a strategic investor in PT Gajah Tunggal Tbk of Indonesia.

When was Giti Tire founded?

The group's roots go back to a 1951 bicycle tire business in Jakarta. The Giti Tire name was established in 1993 when the group entered China through a joint venture with Anhui Tire Factory.

What is Giti Tire's revenue?

Group revenue was USD 3.099 billion in 2024, per the company's published figures, with approximately 30,000 employees.

Where are Giti and GT Radial tires made?

At Giti group plants in China and Indonesia and at the company's US plant in Richburg, South Carolina, which opened in 2017.

Giti's roots trace to 1951 in Jakarta, where members of the Lim family, a Chinese Indonesian business family, founded a company producing bicycle tires and inner tubes. That business became PT Gajah Tunggal in 1961 and grew into Southeast Asia's largest integrated tire producer, adding motorcycle tires in 1971 with technical help from Inoue Rubber and passenger and commercial tires in 1981 with assistance from Yokohama Rubber.

Gajah Tunggal listed on the Jakarta and Surabaya stock exchanges in 1990 and began radial passenger and light truck production in 1993, launching the GT Radial brand the same year to carry the product internationally.

The Giti Tire name was established in 1993 as the group entered China through a joint venture with Anhui Tire Factory, initially producing bias tires. Passenger radial plants followed in Fujian by 2000, and the China business expanded through the 2000s into one of the country's largest foreign owned tire operations. Proprietary sales and distribution centers opened across China from 1998 onward.

The company adopted its current elephant logo in 2010 and consolidated its identity as Giti Tire Group, headquartered in Singapore under executive chairman Enki Tan. In 2017 it opened its first US manufacturing plant in Richburg, Chester County, South Carolina, a $560 million, 1.7 million square foot facility built in part to supply Walmart, which had named Giti its Automotive Supplier of the Year for 2015. The plant launched with production of Dextero branded tires.

Recent expansion added a new plant in Changfeng, Hefei, China, part of a capacity program supporting the GT Radial, Giti, and Dextero brands. Group revenue reached USD 3.099 billion in 2024, with approximately 30,000 employees across offices in more than a dozen countries. The group retains a strategic stake in PT Gajah Tunggal, which continues to manufacture GT Radial and Giti branded tires in Indonesia.

Giti publishes an annual group sustainability report under the theme of engineering toward net zero. The 2025 report documents 12,695 metric tons of carbon sequestration initiatives, 24,695 MWh of renewable energy generated, and more than 17,600 employee volunteer hours.

Commitments include responsible natural rubber sourcing, renewable energy adoption at plants, and community programs across operating countries. The company participates in the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber and has introduced eco positioned products under the Giti and GT Radial lines.

Group level third party certification is limited: Giti is not a certified B Corp and holds no Leaping Bunny or equivalent consumer facing certifications, which is standard for the tire industry. Its disclosures are self reported, so independent verification of emissions and sourcing claims is limited to the sustainability report's stated scope.

Giti has no major public safety scandal on record. Its US plant and import business operate under the same tariff and trade remedy framework affecting all foreign tire makers, and Chinese made tires have been subject to US antidumping and countervailing duties in various proceedings.

As a supplier to Walmart and global automakers, the company is held to vendor labor and quality standards, and no material regulatory action has been documented against its operations.