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From The Business Insider, July 10, 2009:
A person familiar with the situation tells the AP that GM has emerged from bankruptcy.
All it took was 40 days, 2 fewer than Chrysler. Bravo to Steve Rattner. Now let's see if the turnaround plan will work.
Here's longer look at the turnaround plan by the AP:
By TOM KRISHER and EMILY FREDRIX – DETROIT (AP) — After a night spent signing mounds of paperwork authorizing the transfer of cash, real estate, technology and other property, GM attorneys are expected to officially usher the new General Motors out of bankruptcy protection on Friday and onto a path toward a hopefully profitable future.
Once the world's largest and most powerful automaker, the troubled company is expected to emerge cleansed of massive debt and burdensome contracts that would have sunk it without federal loans. Spurred on by the Obama administration's support, the process took just 40 days, even slightly quicker than crosstown rival Chrysler Group LLC's 42-day timeframe.
On Thursday, a bankruptcy court order allowing GM to sell most of its assets to a new company went into effect. The new GM, 61 percent owned by the U.S. government, will face a brutally competitive global automotive market in the middle of the worst sales slump in a quarter-century.
At a 9 a.m. press conference Friday, CEO Fritz Henderson will announce that GM will cut another 4,000 white-collar jobs, including 450 top executives. The company still employs 88,000 people in the U.S. and 235,000 worldwide.
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G M is today building the best and most innovating cars in the world. & no I don't work for the auto industry at all .
There's enough blame to go around for the debacle. There will be more companies joining GM if they don't correct the imbalance on both sides of the equation. I mean top executives plundering from company coffers and workers who feel entitled to all the benefits and high wages which were the norm some decades back. The world has changed and the American worker will never see the glory of the 50s and 60s ever again. There are literally hundreds of millions of trained workers in China and India ready to do the same work for a pittance. At the same time, executive pay should be dreastically curtailed and some of that wealth spread to th workers.
Yet another handout? Perhaps this time GM will figure out what the American public wants in a "new" automobile... which is one that costs $10K and has a 10 year/ 100K mile warranty. Now all the "brains" at GM have to do is to figure out how to do it. hint.. look at car companies in Korea or India?
Out of bankruptcy into failure! Failure financed by the Obama administration.
Hey whens the last time some of you drove a GM product. They have some nice products out there. Sounds like you Toyota and Honda lovers are getting scared. The new Malibu, Camaro, Traverse, etc. are just terrible. "Not"
The government is investing in GM not for profit but save some jobs and help the economy. Foreign labor will continue to cut into jobs and pay rates. Unions negotiated for better pay, better retirement, better medical benifits and helped create a lower middle class at the expense of profits for GM. People are now turning to the goverment for these benifits. Profit without benifit to those who build the cars is good for a few. It is still better to invest in America and buy American. On Star is ready.
Ford will be the New GM. Their joint venture relationship with Mazda is great. Continue putting out new innovative cars like the Mazda 3, Miata, Ford Edge, Fusion, etc.
lesson learned. no more gm bonds in my portfolio $10,000 was a big chunk to lose for any senior citizon on only s.s. and no pension.
It's a reality check..... History would be an excellent thing if it were true....
Same as it ever was...GM has been bankrupt for the last 10 years and is still bankrupt....they are still in denial.
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few....
mmayzak, Look at where the Headoffice of Toy & Honda is, Japan. I don't care for those cars as their engines sound like blenders. people buy them because they are cheaper, and people like to defend what they buy. Usually profits of subsidiaries go to their head offices. In this case the US has to find foreign exchange to repatriate to Japan when we buy Japanese products. that simple.
Bill & Shannan - Friday July 10, 2009 10:47AM EDT G M is today building the best and most innovating cars in the world. & no I don't work for the auto industry at all ======================================= That was a good one! Thanks for the laugh.
youngt2 - Friday July 10, 2009 11:47AM EDT Hey whens the last time some of you drove a GM product. They have some nice products out there. ======================================= Stop with the jokes! I'm laughing too hard already!
Have you realized that this site is frequented by greedy, materialistic children who “don’t understand” any rule, law or moral that stands in the way of their making a quick, easy fortune? You guys need to grow up, and develop some ETHICS!
A friend is a second self....^_^ Have a nice weekend!
I have a Chevy Impala in my drive right now. It will be the last GM car that I will have.
Chrysler and GM have been in trouble for years. This current crisis just finished them off. They have been in a death spiral since the oil crisis of the 1970's. On a totally different note, the dollar is up today against the EURO, the Aussie, the British Pound, and every other currency except the Chinese Yuan. (I am beginning to see why there are accusations about them manipulating their currency since it never changes on XE). Why does the dollar go up when the stock market is down? Any ideas?
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Raymond - Friday July 10, 2009 10:45AM EDT
sounds like it's time for Ford to reassert itself as the premiere American built automobile.