Just as Ford and General Motors can push their suppliers into doing business with them through online exchanges, so can governments, thus galvanising thousands of small firms into becoming e-businesses.
And just north of Ford's, 5, 000 homes are going up as part of a private property development.
The message is unmistakably aggressive, arguably arrogant: Ford just redefined the midsize-car market.
For example, Ford just announced they are changing the name of the new Lincoln Zephyr sedan, which just came out last fall, blowing the entire momentum of the introduction year.
So the mayor just announces publicly that Ford will be making a donation.
Ford Motor just increased its car sales in China by 40% the market with the greatest future for many years if not decades to come.
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That goes for people who work in the Glass House, too the local nickname for the headquarters of Ford Motor just outside Detroit.
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Indeed, given the lack of opportunity to acquire control, Kerkorian seems to just be betting that Ford is undervalued and that its turnaround plan has merit.
Or maybe Ford is just grasping for reasons to justify the billions of dollars it is spending to retool three North American truck factories for small car production.
That she has access to this roll call of boldfaced designers and labels, especially the picky Tom Ford, just goes to show that the fashion community is championing the would-be superstar.
Although they own just 4% of Ford 's (nyse: F - news - people )common stock, the family controls 40% of the voting power through its Class B shares.
Kilmarnock came close to an opener after seven minutes when Willie Gibson scampered down the left and floated a cross into the box which Ford put just wide of the far post.
Just yesterday afternoon, Ford announced that next year they will offer the Ford Focus in an electric car, and Ford will purchase its batteries from this plant instead of purchasing them from overseas.
At the time, Ford had just been bested by General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), its North American rival, in a hotly contested competition to form a joint venture with Shanghai Automobile Industry Corporation to produce passenger cars in China.
Among other things, the turn of events has removed a huge competitive advantage for Ford at just the time the brand could use one, in view of its struggles to continue to grow and hold on to hard-won market share.
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After averaging 32 regular-season games in her first four seasons in Detroit, Ford totaled just 68 in her last three while she endured cartilage damage in her left knee in 2007 and a torn ACL in her right knee in 2008.
Ford can create just one advertising campaign for the Taurus and the Taurus X, instead of separate ones for the Five Hundred and Freestyle.
ViaSat, on the other hand, can do much of its service testing on the ground, using that fairly ordinary Ford van pictured just above.
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Just down the block is Ford's Filling Station (www.fordsfillingstation.net), a gastropub run by the crafty chef Ben Ford, who prefers whole pig feasts and oven-roasted octopus to fedoras and bullwhips (yep, his dad is Harrison).
And Ford did restructure just four years ago.
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Ford is "trying to figure out just what's happening in this industry, " said Chairman and Chief Executive BillFordBill Ford, referring to those talks during a call with analysts Wednesday.
Ford is "trying to figure out just what's happening in this industry, " said Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Ford , referring to those talks during a call with analysts Wednesday.
Value charging is just one example of the efficiency Ford's new electrified vehicles can provide owners.
"The filmmakers didn't send (the script) to me, I just happened upon it, " Ford recently told CNN.
In the process, Ford of Europe was scrapped and power was transferred to Dearborn, Ford's headquarters just outside Detroit.
The market leaders, F-series pickups from Ford, are not just best-selling trucks.
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