ALL Ford Motor Company / 2011 Annual Report CONTENT 1 2 3 6 7 8 18 22 25 184 185 About the Company A Message from the Executive Chairman A Message from the President and CEO Board of Directors and Executives Profitable Growth for All Great Products Strong Business Better World Financial Contents Shareholder Information Global Overview OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS Revenues (a) Worldwide wholesale unit volumes by automotive segment (in thousands) Ford North America Ford South America Ford Europe
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Management and Leadership-Ford Henry Ford stated‚ “I have discovered that the biggest difference between managers and leaders is the way they motivate the people who work or follow them‚ and this sets the tone for most other aspects of what they do†(Ford‚ 2010 p.1). Within Ford Motor Company‚ the roles and responsibilities of leaders is very important to establish and maintain a positive culture that contributes to the health of the company. Organizational managers and leaders have
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Strengths Ford Motor Company is a Multi international Company with 90 plant and facilities selling vehicles in 200 markets. It is the second biggest plant in the world‚ with approximately 345‚000 employees The Ford Motor Company is the Fifth largest vehicle manufacturer in the world and the second in the U.S. with a total (Sales 2010) of 4‚988‚031 vehicles manufactured including Cars‚ land craft vehicles (LCV)‚ Heavy Commercial Vehicles (HCV) and Heavy Buses. Ford Motor merges with Hertz Rent-A-Car
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USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO LAUNCH FORD’S GLOBAL CAR IN THE U.S.A. Fiesta Movement In April 2009‚ The Ford Motor Company launched a new marketing campaign called the Ford Fiesta Movement. The campaign had an unusual approach‚ never previously used before by Ford since being incorporated in June 1903: Ford used amateurs to create ads for Ford Fiesta‚ their new B category car and relied on (an artificially designed) Word of Mouth Marketing that used online social media to build awareness. Their thinking
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Henry Ford Henry Ford was one of America’s greatest businesspersons‚ the founder of Ford Motor Company and the man largely responsible for mass production in the American economy. This achievement led Ford to becoming a rich and famous man. Ever since Ford was a child‚ he had a dream to become an engineer and to manufacture cars. He began to pursue his dream when he introduced the Assembly line‚ by breaking down production into simple tasks. He lowered the skill level needed to work in a factory
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It was once said‚ "Those who do not study the past are deemed to repeat it." On the brink of the new 21st century it is important for us at the Ford Motor Company to take a look at our past to see what has worked and what has not in order to set the standards for the automotive industry. It is also imperative to take a close look at what our competitors have done because we can also learn from their mistakes as well as improve on some of their ideas that have worked for them. It is important to
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Ford Motor Company GROUP PROJECT ACC 505 - FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 12/01/96 TABLE OF CONTENTS DESCRIPTION PAGE INTRODUCTION........................................................1 LIQUIDITY...........................................................1-3 Working Capital...................................................1 Current Ratio & Quick Ratio.......................................2 Receivable Turnover & Average Days’ Sales Uncollected
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Does Ford have too much cash? For this question‚ we need some measurement of liquidity to compare the turnover rate and reservation of cash for Ford‚ GM‚ Chrysler and compare those measurements in different years to see if Ford have too much liquidity which means too much cash. Quick ratio is liquidity measurement which is a variant of the current ratio. It focuses on quick assets‚ which are those assets likely to be converted to cash within a relatively short period of time. Quick ratio=
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Ford & General Motors in Russia In July 2002‚ Ford Motor Company officially opened its first Russian car factory near St. Petersburg. The factory‚ which cost some S150 million to build‚ is 100% owned by Ford and represents the first wholly owned investment by a foreign carmaker in Russia. The factory is tiny by international standards; it will employ 800 people and initially will produce 10‚000 Ford Focus cars a year. By comparison‚ a typical auto plant in the developed world produces 200‚000
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Dominance in the Automobile Market: The Early Years of Ford and General Motors Richard S. Tedlow Harvard University This paper contrasts the businessstrategics of Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan‚ in the automobile Jr. marketof the 1920s. The thesis that HenryFord 1 is epitomized the method of competition most familiar to ncoclassical economics. That is to say‚ his key competitive weapon was price. Alfred P. Sloan‚ Jr. beat Ford because hc understood that the nature of the market
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