RESEARCH PAPER ON GM Introduction "General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years" (Sloan, 1972). This mantra established in 1950 by former GM president Harlow H. Curtice may have been true at one point, but is called into question today by many, including Wall Street. General Motors Corporation, also known, as GM or GMC is the world’s 2nd largest auto company in sales revenue behind Toyota which took the lead in 2006. General Motors reigned as the global leader in the automobile
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TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION Toyota Motor Corporation is a famous Japanese multinational corporation and can be taken as the second largest producers of trucks, automobiles, robots, buses and financial services as well. Kiichiro Toyoda is the founder of Toyota who was popular for inventing the automatic loom. The spirit of creation and research was inherited by Kiichiro from his father and thus he spends his entire life in the spirit of manufacturing cars. Many years of hard work finally made Kiichiro
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Technology and Innovation Management WORKING PAPER Influence of Government Policies on Industry Development: The Case of India’s Automotive Industry Mahipat Ranawat Rajnish Tiwari March 2009 Working Paper No. 57 Hamburg University of Technology Schwarzenbergstr. 95, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)40 42878-3777; Fax: +49 (0)40 42878-2867 www.tu-harburg.de/tim www.global-innovation.net Influence of Government Policies on Industry Development: The Case of India’s Automotive Industry By
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Case Study 3 The 2009 Chrysler-Fiat Strategic Alliance 1. What are your views of the 2009 Chrysler-Fiat strategic alliance and its future prospects in the auto industry? When it comes to dealing with worldwide economic recession, grave steps have to be taken in order to ensure the survival of businesses, as too many livelihoods depend on it. Also, due to the investments that shareholders make, and the wide array of other businesses that the company would affect, it puts a lot of pressure on
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CAR TYRES | AN Industry Overview | This project looks at the Car Tyre industry in India and how the Distribution channel helps this industry to grow and serve the needs of the End consumer. | PROJECT DONE BY:VIKRAM FALOR : DM14157RAMYAA RAMESH : DM14266AMIT SHUKLA : DM14104 | Introduction:- The Indian Tyre Industry is a critical part of the Auto Sector and there is a huge interdependent on those of the Automobile players. The Indian tyre industry accounts for approximately 5.0% of the
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Board of Directors (As of March 31, 2011) R N Tata (Chairman) S Ramadorai (Vice Chairman) N Chandrasekaran (CEO & Managing Director) Aman Mehta V Thyagarajan Prof. Clayton M Christensen Dr. Ron Sommer Laura M Cha S Mahalingam (CFO & Executive Director) Phiroz Vandrevala (Executive Director) Dr. Vijay Kelkar Ishaat Hussain Company Secretary Suprakash Mukhopadhyay Statutory Auditors Deloitte Haskins & Sells US GAAP Auditors Deloitte Haskins & Sells Registered Office 9th Floor, Nirmal
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million vehicles in 2011. But with a downward slide in market share, the Big Three, Ford Motor Company (Ford), General Motors Corporation (GM) and DaimlerChrysler (DC), was fast losing their dominant position to Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, thereby setting the ground for the emergence of New Six. The report on “Automotive Industry Analysis” consists on a comparison between the Big Three and New Six. Ford, General Motors and Toyota are taken as examples. I. Industry Overview Hailed as ‘the industry
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Ford Motor Co Industry: Automobile (Auto Manufacturers – Major) Sector: Consumer Goods Products and Services: Ford Motor Company primarily develops, manufactures, distributes, and services vehicles and parts worldwide. Ford operates in two sectors: • The Automotive sector: Offers vehicles primarily under the Ford (www.ford.com) and Lincoln (www.lincoln.com) brand names. This sector markets cars, trucks, and parts through retail dealers in North America, and through distributors and
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The Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is an American multinational corporation and the world's fourth largest automaker based on worldwide vehicle sales, following Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, the automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury brands, Ford also owns Volvo Cars of Sweden, and a small stake in Mazda of Japan and Aston Martin of England. Ford's former UK subsidiaries
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