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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedLeach departure at Ford extends management turmoil; 'He jumped because he was fed up'.(News)(Martin Leach)
Automotive News Europe, August, 2003
Martin Leach was a Ford man through and through.
He has worked for Ford almost his entire working life, rotated through a series of important assignments and embodied the "driving dynamics" that Ford had made a core brand value in Europe.
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The defection of such a talented, dedicated executive during a critical restructuring is not a good sign for Ford of Europe. Until August, European operations had been held up as a model for Ford's global recovery. Analysts were stunned when Ford Motor Co. reported earlier this month that its European operations lost $525 million ...
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