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Crisis in the automotive parts industry
For the past decade, being an auto parts supplier to General Motors, Ford and Chrysler has been frustrating and often unprofitable. The insults and...
Automotive Industries, 03/01/05 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
What were they thinking!
Mitsubishi Motors has been temporarily rescued from oblivion by the members of its zaibatsu who could not tolerate the public humiliation of the...
Automotive Industries, 02/01/05 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
Financial prudence: why is General Motors still paying a dividend?
Financial prudence: why is General Motors still paying a dividend?(The Business) Dividends are an appropriate return of capital to shareholders...
Automotive Industries, 01/01/05 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
Losing relevance at the retail level
A few weeks ago AutoNation's CEO publicly chastised the domestic auto companies for pushing too much inventory into his stores. Domestic brand...
Automotive Industries, 12/01/04 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
Do we actually know what the auto companies earn or lose?
The SEC recently sent a request to General Motors, Ford, Delphi and others to understand their actuarial assumptions for pension accounting to...
Automotive Industries, 11/01/04 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
Protecting residual values
The moment that someone drives a brand new car off the dealer's lot, it is worth considerably less than it was when the buyer was handed the keys....
Automotive Industries, 10/01/04 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
Limiting options
In the last month, crude oil prices soared to near $50 a barrel and then dropped from that level. There are pundits on both sides of the debate as...
Automotive Industries, 09/01/04 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
Tough decisions required
During the last decade, Ford, General Motors, Daimler and Volkswagen spent billions of dollars on investments in other auto companies, usually...
Automotive Industries, 08/01/04 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
Market share or profits
In the past month the managements of Ford and Volkswagen both stated that profits and not preservation of some arbitrary market share was their...
Automotive Industries, 07/01/04 by Maryann Keller · More from publication -
The gathering storm
The 1990S were a gift to the U.S. auto industry. Low inflation, low interest rates, cheap gasoline, record vehicle sales, especially large trucks,...
Automotive Industries, 06/01/04 by Maryann Keller · More from publication
