Hints and tips:
...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, the daughter of a union machinist, comes from a family that has collectively spent more than 80 years working at the company....
...Or maybe she’ll be one of the first to drive the new Hummer EV, part of her bullish gambit to electrify GM’s entire fleet by 2035....
...(FT) Semiconductor shortage to hit GM earnings General Motors said that the global shortage of semiconductors would have a short-term impact on the company’s earnings and cash this year, even as it reported...
...So off they went down to the lake and there was a lovely old motor launch ticking over and a guy in white, the captain of the boat....
...GM said China’s Great Wall Motors had agreed to buy its Thai manufacturing plant and that the moves would incur cash and non-cash charges of $1.1bn....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...(FT, Guardian, Sky News) The day ahead Detroit fightback Detroit-based automaker General Motors releases earnings today....
...“Uncertainty around Homebase, Poundworld et al presents opportunity for B&M from both a property and a capacity withdrawal perspective....
...But there is still time to live the “V Dub dream”....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Among them is Mickey Hians, 60, a retired worker from a General Motors plant in Lordstown, 12 miles away....
...Sales at General Motors and Ford fell 8.2 per cent and 5 per cent respectively but beat estimates and GM raised its industry sales forecast for the year, according to the FT....
...While Lee is in Paris at Kreo’s rue Dauphine space with work from artists Donald Judd, Larry Clark and Michelangelo Pistoletto et al, the Krzentowskis will be in London with a selection of limited edition...
...“Today will rank as another historic day for the company – the end of an old General Motors, and the beginning of a new one,” the White House said in a statement....
...In a valedictory statement, Mr Wagoner, 56, said that “GM is a great company with a storied history. Ignore the doubters because I know it is also a company with a great future.”...
...The crisis talks between the companies and the administration’s auto task force cost the job of Rick Wagoner, chief executive and chairman of General Motors, who was asked to step down by the White House...
...As long as a sympathetic, pro-labour White House and congressional leadership seemed willing to paper over cracks with taxpayer cash, it is no shock General Motors and Chrysler’s restructuring plans were...
...Mr Wagoner is to step down as chief executive of GM after eight years at the request of the White House ahead of President Barack Obama’s announcement on Monday on the auto industry, administration officials...
...A quarter century later, Mr Reagan is surely spinning in his grave as the White House this week sacked the head of General Motors, all but forced Chrysler to merge with Italian suitor Fiat and is set to...
...Hours after forcing the departure of Rick Wagoner as chief executive of General Motors, the president on Monday warned that GM and Chrysler must agree to more radical restructuring before qualifying for...
...The resignation, at the request of the White House, could precipitate a bankruptcy filing by the 101-year-old company and marks the lowest point in Mr Wagoner’s three decades in the auto industry....
...A General Motors executive once said that he thought “what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa”....
...The looming threat of bankruptcy at General Motors and Chrysler sent stocks tumbling on Monday after the White House rejected the carmakers’ turnround plans and forced out chief executive Rick Wagoner....
...The previous session’s losses had come after the White House rejected General Motors’ restructuring plans and replaced Rick Wagoner as chairman and chief executive....
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