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Now Showing — The Incredible Shrinking Supplier Base

Automotive Industries,  June, 1999  by Norman Martin

General Motors Vice President Harold Kutner, head of worldwide purchasing, leaves no doubt the supplier industry will continue to shrink. Kutner, whose division will buy $86 billion worth of automotive parts this year, predicts the number of major suppliers to GM will fall from 3,000 to 2,000 over the next few years.

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Of those major suppliers, 620 are owned by principals who are black, Hispanic, American Indian or of other minority races.

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