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United States / Companies
After leaving its bankruptcy status behind in 2007, US automotive parts supplier Dana has shown an improvement in its performance for the first quarter of the year. Revenues were up by 8% year-on-year to US$2.31bn in Q108, compared with US$2.14bn in the previous year. Meanwhile, net income of US$685mn contrasted with a loss of US$92mn in Q107. The downside when looking ahead to...
2008-05-16United States / Companies
South Korea's Hyundai Motor has put its plans to build pick-up trucks in the US on hold, as light truck sales in the country continue to tumble. Hyundai had planned to produce the...
2008-05-14Canada / Companies
General Motors Canada has announced the closure of its transmission plant in Windsor, Ontario due to the lack of a new product to introduce at the plant. In a statement made to the...
2008-05-13Company Spotlight
US carmaker Ford has begun 2007 by earmarking investment of USBRL2.2bn (US$1.02bn) for Brazil. The struggling carmaker has seen its share of the US market decline, and is dragging...
2007-02-08France's PSA Peugeot Citroën has followed up success in its home region of Europe by developing its business in Latin America. In 2004 the company's sales for the region grew by...
2006-05-15Venezuela
GM led the Venezuelan market in 2004 with sales of 41,578 units overall, securing a 30.95% market share. Results for 2005 show GM maintaining this lead on a market share of 28.65%...
2006-05-15Brazil
Brazil's automotive sales results for 2005 show a marked improvement for Fiat, with the Italian company taking the lead in the overall market on the back of a 13.38% rise in sales....
2006-05-12Chile
Attractive financing deals, in an environment of low interest rates, a strong local currency (against a weak dollar), and very competitive prices for vehicles aided demand for new...
2007-07-24Peru
At the time of the 2004 mid-year ministerial changes, Toledo promised a 13% increase in wages from US$118 to US$133 per month. This, given the fiscal deficit targets under the latest...
2007-07-23Brazil
In the first four months of 2006, vehicle sales in Brazil fell by 8.37% against the same period in 2005, to 496,000 units. General Motors and Chrysler suffered the most in lost sales,...
2006-07-06Argentina
We expected sales for the whole of 2005 to reach around 395,397 units and even this was modest. Full year sales for 2005 reached 402,690 units, up 29% y-o-y. This is a significant...
2006-07-06United States
After leaving its bankruptcy status behind in 2007, US automotive parts supplier Dana has shown an improvement in its performance for the first quarter of the year. Revenues were...
2008-05-16United States
South Korea's Hyundai Motor has put its plans to build pick-up trucks in the US on hold, as light truck sales in the country continue to tumble. Hyundai had planned to produce the...
2008-05-14Canada
General Motors Canada has announced the closure of its transmission plant in Windsor, Ontario due to the lack of a new product to introduce at the plant. In a statement made to the...
2008-05-13Colombia
Automaker General Motors (GM) has announced its new joint venture with Isuzu Motors called GM-Isuzu Camiones Andinos de Colombia Ltda. The venture aims to strengthen the long-standing...
2008-05-13
