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DETROIT - General Motors’ Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson gave a “state of the company” address on Tuesday, June 12, at its Annual Meeting of Stockholders of GM. He discussed the business and product plans it's implementing to improve profitability and protect its core vehicle business from economic shocks.
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA - Fleet sales for the year are up 8%, based on J.D. Power’s SAAR numbers. In May 2011, fleet sales were at 2.5 million units SAAR for the year, but in May 2012, fleet sales were at 2.7 million units SAAR.
Read More →ERLANGER, KY - The Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama (TMMAL) plant currently assembles four-cylinder, V-6 and V-8 engines for eight of 12 vehicles Toyota builds in North America.
Read More →INGOLSTADT, GERMANY - The plant will manufacture an SUV model beginning in 2016 and the company stated it will choose the location of the plant later this year, according to Audi.
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CHATTANOOGA, TN -Volkswagen stated that these jobs are in addition to 200 jobs added at the Chattanooga plant earlier this year.
Read More →BELVIDERE, IL - The company said it hasn’t run a third shift at that plant since March 2008, when there were 3,600 employees at the plant. Chrysler also stated the MSRP for the new Dart.
Read More →DEARBORN, MI – Ford is using material from kenaf, a tropical plant similar to bamboo but related to cotton, in the door bolsters in the all-new 2013-MY Ford Escape.
Read More →DETROIT - During its 2nd Annual Global Business Conference, GM announced plans to streamline operations, including streamlining its production capabilities.
Read More →JASPER, IN – Compared to data from the U.S. Department of Energy, Jasper Engines' remanufacture of a drivetrain component averaged only 1 percent of the energy consumed of manufacturing the entire vehicle.
Read More →Twenty-five years ago, there was a utopian vision of what fleet management would be like in the 21st century. However, this new century has been far from utopian. Its reality is more like a maelstrom. In eight short years, fleet managers have been buffeted by one major crisis after another, most of them unprecedented and severe. The first decade of the 21st century is shaping up to be one of the most tumultuous in the history of fleet management.
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