AKRON, OH -- Shareholders of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. yesterday re-elected 11 members of the company's board of directors.

Re-elected were:

· James Boland, vice chairman, Cavaliers Operating Company, LLC;

· John Breen, former chairman of the board, The Sherwin-Williams Company;

· William Hudson Jr., former president and chief operating officer, AMP Inc.;

· Robert Keegan, chairman, chief executive officer and president, Goodyear;

· Steven Minter, former president and executive director, The Cleveland Foundation;

· Denise Morrison, senior vice president, Campbell USA Soup, Sauce and Beverage;

· Rodney O'Neal, chief executive officer and president, Delphi Corporation;

· Shirley Peterson, former partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP;

· G. Craig Sullivan, former chairman and chief executive officer, The Clorox Company;

· Thomas Weidemeyer, former senior vice president and chief operating officer, United Parcel Service Inc.; and

· Michael Wessel, president, The Wessel Group Inc.

W. Alan McCollough, former chairman and chief executive officer of Circuit City Stores Inc., was also elected to the board. The election of McCollough brings the size of Goodyear's board to 12 members.

Also at the annual meeting, shareholders approved the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2007. A shareholder proposal requesting the adoption of a simple majority vote standard for all issues subject to shareholder vote failed to receive a majority of votes outstanding. In other business, shareholder proposals related to executive compensation and retirement benefits failed to receive a majority of votes outstanding.

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