General Motors Analysis General Motors (GM) is a United States car manufacturer that was founded by William C. Durant in Flint‚ Michigan dating back to 1908. GM headquarters is located in Detroit‚ Michigan and is among one of the world’s largest automakers‚ conducting business in over one hundred and twenty countries with production facilities in thirty-seven of those. GM dominated the automaker industry for over seventy-seven years (1913-2007) through ownership of over twenty-five different companies
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GHANA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (GIMPA) SEPTEMBER 2012 YEAR GROUP- EVENING MBA MARKETING OPTION COURSE TITLE: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT NAME: KUMAH SUE EYRAM STUDENT ID: 213004003 MID SEMESTER CASE ANALYSIS – JOSE IGNACIO LOPEZ DE ANRIORTUA DUE DATE: 4TH DECEMBER‚ 2014 OVERVIEW “Modern manufacturers work with a wide range of suppliers‚ and supply chains are becoming increasingly complicated. The growing need to cut prices for the consumer means margins are being
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GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION & THE VOLKSWAGEN GROUP INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS Group Members Jose Cervantes Hilda Patricia Moreno Aracelis Nass Keila Urdaneta Florida International University ACG 6255 International Accounting Professor Leonardo Rodriguez Summer 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Objectives ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 The Automotive Industry ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 The Automotive
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Topic: Evolution of a fortune 500 company & link the concept covered in theme 1 & 2 with the management evolution of the selected company Fortune 500 Rank 15 - General Motors “A car for every purse and purpose" – Alfred P Sloan Jr‚ Former President & CEO General Motors. General Motors‚ one of the world’s largest automakers‚ traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit‚ GM employs 205‚000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 157
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INTRODUCTION According to GM.com (2009) General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM)‚ is one of the world’s largest automakers which was founded in 1908‚ in Detroit USA. It manufactures cars and trucks in 34 countries. GM employs 252‚000 people in every major region of the world‚ and sells and services vehicles in some 140 countries. It sells cars and trucks globally under the following brands: Buick‚ Cadillac‚ Chevrolet‚ GMC‚ GM Daewoo‚ Holden‚ Hummer‚ Opel‚ Pontiac‚ Saab‚ Saturn‚ Vauxhall and Wuling. Its largest
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establishment of General Motors in Canada marked the beginning of a period of substantial economic development. The automotive industry is a tremendous contributor to the comprehensive level of economic growth experienced throughout the twentieth century. With the peak of industrialization finally realized‚ there existed opportunity for development and modernization of societies around the world. With this in mind‚ opportunity was present for the production of automobiles for use around the world
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Synopsis: General Motors (hereafter GM) Company‚ one of the world’s largest automakers‚ traces its roots back to 1908 and its annual revenue in 2000 of $185 billion. The company sells 8 million vehicles per years‚ 3.2 million of which are produced and market outside of its North America. GM caught 27 percent share of the North America and 9 percent share of the market in the rest of the world as well as GM captured 12 percent share in the Western Europe in 2000 which is second only to that of ford
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General Motors Corporation Restructuring Plan for Long-Term Viability Submitted to Senate Banking Committee & House of Representatives Financial Services Committee December 2‚ 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................4 2. BACKGROUND .............................................................................................................6 3. THE PROBLEM ..................
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GM’s Unit Sales Exposure (Worldwide) 19 5.3 GM’s Auto Revenue Exposure (Worldwide) 21 5.4 Moving to a net income like exposure 22 5.5 Hedging the resulting exposure 23 6. CONCLUSION 24 7. SOURCES USED for INFORMATION 24 1. INTRODUCTION General Motors is a large multinational enterprise with operations in more than 200 different countries. It is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit‚ Michigan and the world ’s largest automaker (2001). It employs 365‚000 people
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Recommendation Report: General Motors Written For: General Motors Table of Contents Executive Summary.............................................................................................................................3 Introduction………....................................................................................................................……..4 Strengths............................................................................. ............................
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