Goodyear Announces Fourth Quarter 2000 Earnings Release and Conference Call

    AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 26 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
will report fourth quarter 2000 financial results on Wednesday, Feb. 14, to be
followed at 8:30 a.m. by an investor conference call.
    Participating in the conference call will be Samir G. Gibara, chairman and
chief executive officer; Robert J. Keegan, president and chief operating
officer; and Robert W. Tieken, executive vice president and chief financial
officer.  They will review Goodyear's fourth quarter results and the company's
plans to improve performance in 2001.
    Shareholders, members of the media and other interested persons may access
the conference call on the Internet at http://www.goodyear.com/us/investor or via
telephone by calling (800) 406-5345 or (913) 981-5571 before 8:25 a.m.
A taped replay of the conference call will be available at 3 p.m. that day by
calling (888) 203-1112 or (719) 457-0820 and entering access code number
703931.
    Goodyear is the world's largest tire company.  Headquartered in Akron,
Ohio, the company manufactures tires, engineered rubber products and chemicals
in more than 90 facilities in 27 countries.  It has marketing operations in
almost every country around the world.  Goodyear, with the addition of its
Dunlop tire joint ventures, employs more than 105,000 people worldwide.