[8] Apollo Tyres Ltd. was incorporated on 28 September 1972 in India as a public limited company and obtained certificate of Commencement of Business on 24 October 1972.

The company acquired Premier Tyres Limited in 1995, which became its 3rd plant at Kochi, Kerala, India.

[15] In 2013, it disposed of the Dunlop brand in Africa along with most of the South African operation in a sale to Sumitomo Rubber Industries of Japan.

[18] It shifted its corporate office for Europe region to Amsterdam from Enschede, the Netherlands[19] and opened a Global R&D Centre, Asia in Chennai, India a few months later.

[22][23] The company's second plant in Europe, was inaugurated by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, in April 2017.

[28] The Enschede plant was acquired from Vredestein, the newly built facility southeasterly from Gyöngyöshalász was inaugurated for production on 7 April 2017.