Having already supported a team who successfully completed the epic Rickshaw Run from one end of India to the other, when we were asked to help a team on the Mongol Rally (run by the same organisers, The Adventurists) we naturally agreed. What is the Mongol Rally? It...
It is always gratifying when an OKO Distributor makes an impressive launch into its National market. That has certainly been the case with Auto Secure in Nigeria. Their principals had an excellent track record in vehicle markets, and our meetings with them convinced us that they were the...
One of the commonest arguments that we at OKO hear from famers about why they ‘cannot’ use tyre sealant in their tractors is that they must ballast their tyres (usually just their rear tyres) with water for reasons of traction This is actually not good practice – and...
At OKO Towers, we have permitted ourselves a modest celebration lately. Early last year, we finally decided to do something about our old and frankly outdated website at www.oko.com. It didn’t do justice to our abilities or to our standing as the original preventative puncture sealant. By August 2011...
Carry out a web search and you will find many ‘manufacturers’ of tyre sealant. Your first job is to separate those that are the real makers, and those who are reselling under a private label or who are franchisees. Many of these make wild and outlandish claims about...
As you will see from the list of International Distributors at www.oko.com (go to the Products section then from any product, click on ‘Find a Distributor’) there is a fast-growing group of companies who are profitably selling OKO tyre sealants around the world. What is their secret? Is...
One of the problems that OKO faces as the leading tyre sealant company is that people constantly confuse its products with those which come in an aerosol can. Even official online retailers use the term ‘aerosol’ interchangeably with ‘bottle’. To be clear from the outset, OKO only makes water-based...
A Day in the Life of an OKO Manager ‘Tyre sealant? What does that do, then?’ Some 34 years after OKO invented the World’s first effective tyre sealant (or tire sealant if you are reading in the Americas), that question is all too common and shows that we have...