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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedFord plans to cut 1,700 suppliers.(Ford Motor Co.)(Brief Article)
Automotive News Europe, February, 2006 by Barkholz, David
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Byline: David Barkholz
As Ford Motor Co. launches its second restructuring of North American operations in four years, the automaker intends to cut its supplier ranks from 2,500 globally to about 800.
The extent of the Ford supplier cuts was revealed publicly for the first time last month by Neil De Koker, president of the Original Equipment Suppliers Association.
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De Koker, speaking at the Automotive News World Congress in Dearborn, Michigan, said Ford global purchasing chief Tony Brown laid out the plan to 600 suppliers it invited to a meeting in October. De Koker said ...
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