The average age of GM's workforce is 50 (compared to 45 at Ford, and 46 at Chrysler), and 64% of GM workers are eligible to retire within five years (vs. 31% at Ford, and 30% at Chrysler).
Cerberus' "deep bench, " as LaSorda puts it, includes Wolfgang Bernhard, Chrysler's former chief operating officer, and David Thursfield, Ford Motor 's former head of international operations, along with Robert Rewey and Gary Dilts, former sales and marketing executives at Ford and Chrysler, respectively.
Cerberus' "deep bench, " as LaSorda puts it, includes Wolfgang Bernhard, Chrysler's former chief operating officer, and David Thursfield, Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) former head of international operations, along with Robert Rewey and Gary Dilts, former sales and marketing executives at Ford and Chrysler, respectively.
"The danger is safety, " John Ellis, global technologist for connected services and solutions at Ford, said at a CES 2013 discussion.
Secondly, what we're doing in the industry, and here at Ford, is sharing global architectures, or what the sheet metal sits on, on a vehicle.
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The two have since tried to patch things up and negotiations are again moving ahead, though Chrysler is reportedly balking at the signing bonuses and Tier II wage hikes approved at GM and Ford.
So Hudson left Harris Corporation and found a new job at Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation in Newport Beach.
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Exporting jobs to low-wage countries like Mexico and China is an old game at GM and Ford, through their now-independent partsmakers Delphi and Visteon.
But after stepping down, he and Ford had a summit at Ford's Santa Fe ranch.
Browning, who joined VW in June, is a former sales and marketing executive at General Motors and Ford Motor, but spent most of his career outside the United States.
Two of the coach's biggest decisions for the starting five likely hinge on picking between Pierson and Ford at power forward, and Braxton and Bone at center.
Lee Iacocca drove Henry Ford II nuts at Ford, but his track record of success at Ford included the legendary Mustang, and when he was fired and then made CEO at Chrysler, he implemented ideas that Ford had rejected chief among them, the minivan.
And they will look at Bill Ford's speeches and The New York Times and scratch their heads.
He was elected chairman and managing director of Ford Switzerland in 1987 and became the head of business strategy at Ford Automotive Group in 1990.
Fiat and Volkswagen also produce cars for export, and Ford makes engines at its Port Elizabeth factory that it sends abroad.
But the Lions sold out all their home games this year as the team raced out to a fast start, and a game against the Chicago Bears in October set an attendance record at Ford Field and posted an all-time high television rating in the Detroit market.
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But with carmakers looking to lay off thousands of workers, executives at Ford and G.
But, soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, etc. take their paychecks and shop at WalMart, Ford, Target, etc.
Successful turnarounds at GM and Ford in the U.S. are weighed down by problems in Europe.
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The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at Gerald Ford International Airport are open press.
Outsiders like Alan Mulally at Ford and Bob Nardelli at Chrysler might be just what Detroit needs now.
Her impact, at AID and the Ford Foundation and with departments of the Indonesian government, grew out of her deep understanding of village peasant economics, the importance of women in the rural economy, and her love of the people she met in her work.
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And the UAW will no doubt want to preserve "pattern" contracts at GM, Ford and Chrysler.
The suburbs would be on the someday list -- the Detroit Zoo and its newly born river otters, the glassblowers and re-enactors at Greenfield Village and Buckminster Fuller's geodesic Dymaxion House at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.
PeoplePC's biggest deals, in which it offered computers and Internet access to employees at both Ford Motor f (nyse: f - news - people) and Delta Airlines dal (nyse: dal - news - people), are loss leaders, but the losses seem to lead only to more losses.
As another part of Pi Day, Ford engineers will be visiting Detroit students at the Henry Ford Academy and Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies talk about how they used math to design the new Ford Fusion.
Two executives behind the Mustang, Lee Iacocca and Hal Sperlich, later were fired by Ford CEO Henry Ford II and wound up at Chrysler, which in 1980 was saved by America's first automotive bailout.
Disintegration of the tyres is already blamed for causing 89 deaths in America and a further 46 in Venezuela, and both Firestone and Ford have been accused of being, at the least, slow to react to growing evidence that there was a dangerous problem.
Sales at General Motors and Ford plunged by 22% and 19% respectively compared with July 2006.
As with similar initiatives under way at General Motors and Ford Motor, progress has been glacially slow.
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