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Oct
15th

THAILAND: GM strikers return to work

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Hundreds of workers at General Motors' Thai assembly plant on Thursday ended a 10-day strike after settling a pay dispute with the management, the automaker said. Full story...
Oct
15th

BREAKING: GERMANY [updated 17:50BST]: GM-Magna deal signing close

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Strong signs remain General Motors and Magna International will ink a deal to sell a majority stake in Opel before the end of the week though not, it seems, today. Full story...
Oct
15th

BREAKING: GERMANY [updated 11:40BST]: GM-Magna deal signing close

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There are strong signs General Motors and Magna International will sign a deal to sell a majority stake in Opel before the end of the week. Full story...
Oct
15th

GERMANY: GM-Magna deal signing close

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There are strong signs General Motors and Magna International will sign a deal to sell a majority stake in Opel before the end of the week or even later today. Full story...
Oct
14th

SOUTH KOREA: GM CEO meets banks over fresh Daewoo loan

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General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson on Wednesday was in talks with state-run Korea Development Bank to try to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh loans for the troubled GM-Daewoo subsidiary, officials said. Full story...
Oct
14th

CHINA: GM wants to outpace market growth

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General Motors is planning on growth outpacing China's car market in 2010, its China unit head said on Wednesday, after the automaker outperformed the country's overall market in the first three quarters of 2009. Full story...
Oct
14th

US: GM spending $230m on Cruze and Volt plants

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General Motors last night said it was spending over $230m on four of plants in the greater Flint, Michigan, area to "support" production of the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze and Volt, "representing" over 500 jobs. Full story...
Oct
13th

UK: Union deal saves 600 Vauxhall jobs

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After weeks of negotiations, General Motors Europe's UK unit Vauxhall, Magna International and the Unite union have agreed a plan that halves the number of job losses the successful bidder for Opel/Vauxhall had originally proposed. Full story...
Oct
13th

CHINA: No Hummer talks for GM chief visit

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General Motors chief exective Fritz Henderson on Tuesday said his trip to China would not include talks with Chinese regulators about the deal to sell GM's Hummer brand to Chinese machinery maker Tengzhong. Full story...
Oct
13th

CHINA: GM CEO sees strong growth

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General Motors chief executive Fritz Henderson on Tuesday said he expected the Chinese market, which has shown strong growth in recent months, to grow at a significant pace in the future. Full story...
Oct
13th

US: GM sales chief moving to insurer

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Former General Motors sales chief Mark LaNeve has been named chief marketing officer at insurer Allstate Corp. Full story...
Oct
13th

GERMANY: Magna-Opel deal ‘set for Thursday’

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General Motors expects to sign a deal on Thursday to sell 55% of its Opel-Vauxhall operation to Magna International and Russian partner Sberbank, according to German news agency reports. Full story...
Oct
12th

UK: Hummer deal puzzles analyst

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The General Motors/Sichuan Tengzhong deal to sell Hummer is "frankly more than a little puzzling", IHS Global Insight auto analyst Aaron Bragman said in a note to clients on Monday. Full story...
Oct
12th

UK/GERMANY: GM anxious but Magna deal ‘on track’

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General Motors wants significant progress this week on the sale of Opel/Vauxhall to Magna International or it might reconsider its options, according to numerous UK media reports over the weekend. Full story...
Oct
12th

US/CHINA [updated 15:30GMT]: GM/Sichuan Tengzhong deal ends Hummer SA assembly

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South African assembly of Hummer's H3 SUV will not resume and all global production will be "consolidated" in the US, a General Motors spokesman confirmed on Monday. Full story...
Oct
12th

US/CHINA: GM, Sichuan Tengzhong, ink Hummer sale agreement

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General Motors and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery finally announced late on Friday that they had "entered into a definitive agreement that would allow Tengzhong to acquire" GM's Hummer brand. Full story...
Oct
12th

ARGENTINA: Size and price are Chevrolet Agile highlights

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Developed entirely in Brazil, the Chevrolet Agile is the first member of a new General Motors family codenamed Viva that cost US$400m to develop and will spawn at least two more derivatives. Full story...
Oct
9th

GOLDING’S TAKE: Vauxhall mans the barricades as Magna looks for its GME cuts

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Vauxhall has nothing but admiration for UK government business secretary Lord Peter Mandelson in the way that he is fronting the battle with Magna - prospective owner of the haemorrhaging General Motors Europe. Full story...
Oct
9th

UK: GM reduces Astra build time

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General Motors has squeezed savings of over 25% out of the build time for its redesigned Astra hatchback model, which is just going into production here in the UK at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant. Full story...
Oct
9th

GERMANY: Opel aid on Friday Berlin meeting agenda

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German government officials were scheduled to meet representatives of other European countries with Opel factories on Friday afternoon in Berlin to discuss potential aid contributions for the European General Motors unit. Full story...
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