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Clarissa Wright says Barack Obama’s decision to bail out the U.S. auto industry gave the president the edge he needed to win Ohio, and ultimately, re-election.
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U.S. automakers would endorse four more years with profits like those this week. A second term for President Barack Obama, who made saving General Motors Co. a campaign pillar, hinges on whether voters give him the credit.
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Washington Post Co. elected Rick Wagoner , the former General Motors Co. chief who was pushed out after 32 years at the automaker, to its board, boosting the number of directors to 11.
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By David Welch April 29 (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) -- The 15 General Motors dealers who flew to Detroit last September for a dinner with GM management were not an easily rattled bunch. They had endured the worst auto sales slide in 25 years, as well as the bankruptcy of the iconic carmaker on which they had built their businesses. Only three months had passed since GM accepted a $50 billion federal bailout, announcing the retirement of four of its eight brands and the shutting down of 1,900 dealers—a third of its domestic retail network. These dealers were the survivors, some of the more prosperous people in their towns, and they wanted a little reassurance. CEO Fritz Henderson gathered the group in a private conference room at the Westin Detroit Metro Airport and tried to demonstrate that he had a plan, according to an executive in the room who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to describe the dinner. Henderson announced that GM was going on the
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No one thought it was the Waltons working at the White House. Yet one scene in the new book by Steven Rattner , former automotive adviser to President Barack Obama , still comes as a shock.
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General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson is planning a reorganization of the automaker that would move it away from long-entrenched regional authority toward a structure built on global functions, said two people familiar with the planning.
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General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner secretly proposed a merger with Ford Motor Co. in 2008, a year before GM’s bankruptcy filing, the New York Times reported.
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It’s not just Toyota Motor Corp.’s recalls last year or Japan’s earthquake driving General Motors Co. back to being the world’s largest carmaker. Nor is it completely to GM’s credit. What’s really happening is a historic shift in the car business.
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Rick Wagoner , the former General Motors Corp. chief executive officer, was elected to the board of aluminum recycler Aleris Holding Co.
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General Motors Co. , the maker of the Chevrolet Volt gasoline-electric car, will hire 1,000 engineers in Michigan to help expand the automakers’ lineup of electric- drive vehicles.
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