Bridgestone Corp Or (BRDCF) BRDCF Details Bridgestone Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells tires and other rubber products worldwide. The company’s products include passenger tires; commercial tires, such as van tires, and bus and truck tires; motorcycles tires; and specialty tires, including off the road tires and aircraft tires. It also offers PureBetaMT, a combination of polymer and nanotechnology used in the development of high technology tires; electronic paper displays; golf equipment, such as balls, clubs, and accessories; and bicycles. In addition, Bridgestone provides industrial products, including conveyor belts, hydraulic hoses, rubber tracks, marine fenders, and switches; and construction material comprising panel type wafer tanks and seismic isolators for buildings. Further, it offers electro-materials, such as EVASAFE, an inter layer adhesive films; B-FACE A1000, an AR film with a polyethylene terephthalate film base for optical performance; and acrylic adhesive/transfer film for UV hardening type namoimprinting. The company was formerly known as Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Bridgestone Corporation. Bridgestone Corporation was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Detailed BRDCF:US Company Description... www.bridgestone.co.jpFounded in 1931 Bridgestone swings to 34.9 billion yen Q1 lossRelated stories Updates, advisories and surprises (July 28) Panasonic swings to black, plans $9.4 billion M&A (3:45a) Updates, advisories and surprises (5:01a) Sharp swings to forecast-beating quarterly profit (3:42a) Story Quotes Comments Screener Alert Email Print ShareBy Michael Kitchen BRDCF BRDCY JP:5108 LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Bridgestone Corp. /quotes/comstock/11i!brdcf (BRDCF 16.79, -0.34, -2.00%) /quotes/comstock/11i!brdcy (BRDCY 35.50, +0.71, +2.04%) (JP:5108 1,578, +45.00, +2.94%) said Friday it swung to a first-quarter loss of 34.88 billion yen ($351 million) from a year-earlier profit of 29.42 billion yen. The Japanese tire maker's revenue for the period was 568 billion yen, down from the year-ago quarter's 798 billion yen. Bridgestone said for the first half of 2009, it expects a total loss of 62 billion yen, or 79.05 yen a share, based on Japanese accounting standards.