Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: CTB) today announced it has established a sales office in São Paulo, Brazil, under the leadership of Durval Amaral, Cooper Brazil's General Manager. The São Paulo office will help further the company’s Latin America expansion while supporting local distributors and dealers in building the Cooper brands.

“To better serve the markets where we do business in Latin America and to open up new market opportunities, we have put in place an outstanding core leadership team with decades of industry experience and knowledge specific to Latin American,” said Luis Ceneviz, Cooper’s Managing Director, Latin America Tire Operations.

About Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: CTB) is the parent company of a global family of companies that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sale of passenger car and light truck tires. Cooper and its subsidiaries also sell medium truck, motorcycle and racing tires. Cooper's headquarters is in Findlay, Ohio, with manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design operations within its family of companies located in more than one dozen countries around the world. For more information on Cooper, visit www.coopertire.com, www.facebook.com/coopertire or www.twitter.com/coopertire.