With 730 stores in 21 states, Discount Tire Company is the world's largest independent tire and wheel retailer today. The company was founded in 1960 when Bruce T. Halle rented a building on Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor, MI. Although the inventory consisted of only six tires (four of which were retreads) and the showroom was not quite the showroom we see today, faith, vision and hard work were then, and still remain, the foundation on which this company has grown and prospered.