So essentially, I can see any North American company would want to be buying either Nokia or RIM.
"It looks like GM will go into court as a global company and come out a North American company, " says John Casesa, managing partner of Casesa-Shapiro Group, an industry consultant.
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America also acts as the North American operating company of Panasonic's Automotive Systems Company, which coordinates global automotive industry systems and components operations.
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North American telecommunications company Nortel Networks is to create 1, 300 new jobs in Northern Ireland.
Chrysler's strength demonstrates that even a North American legacy auto company can achieve durable success by coming up with a continual stream of new or improved vehicles--the Jeep division has great new products on line and in the pipeline--and by paying painstaking attention to costs.
But the company's North American retail sales fell 0.4%, results the company blamed on bad weather.
InBev promised to keep the headquarters of the North American division of the company in St.
Given the saturated North American market, the company has increasingly looked overseas for growth.
Ray Felts, Article One's North American president, says the company doesn't tally how many cases it has helped win and declined to comment on most clients.
Michael Small, the chief executive of Aircell, which provides wi-fi to 10 large North American airlines, says his company is considering developing a simulated text messaging application that would work in-flight.
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Before becoming CEO, he was chief operating officer and led the company's North American operations.
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This idea alarmed the company's North American workers, who recently went on strike partly to protest about the threat to jobs.
Yes, the company's North American market share is down, but that was deliberate--Ford's CEO decided not to aggressively pursue virtually profitless sales to the rental-car and government-fleet vehicle markets.
On July 31, the company reported that its North American comparable store sales increased just 1.7% in the fourth fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012.
The company is in 175 North American markets and 43 countries.
In the quarter, the company noted, the installed North American restaurant base was 18, 975, up 17% from a year ago.
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The soft drink company operates only in the North American region.
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However, the company upped its guidance for North American operations to between 625, 000 and 645, 000 and also upped its guidance for Russia to 555, 000 to 575, 000.
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Martens , 45, Ford's group vice president of product creation for North America, and Matt DeMars , 48, vice president for North American vehicle operations, have resigned, the company said.
The company opened the first of its North American retail stores in Canada mid-2012.
The company still hopes to return its North American operations to profitability by 2008.
"Manufacturing must be able to adjust and flex production, " Steve McClellan, president of Goodyear's North American tire unit, told the union in the company's opening statement April 22.
When word got out that French mobile game development studio, Gameloft, was looking to open its second North American studio, the LED reached out to the company and added New Orleans to the list of American cities that were being considered.
But the company needs big hits for its major North American brands, Chevy and Pontiac.
The company reported slight sales growth in its North American snack business, compared with more impressive double-digit gains internationally.
Within two years, the company says it will be exporting more North American-built vehicles than it imports from Japan.
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The company saw an 8% growth in its North American Tire division while its International Tire unit grew 11%.
Clayton said the company might make a PR push for the North American market at some point in the second half of this year.
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In May, Enbridge, a Canadian company, reversed the flow of a big North American oil pipeline, sending a glut of oil from America's northern plains southward to coastal refineries.
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