Executives
Richard Lannen, who helped reshape GM service structure, dies at 76
3:50 pm U.S. ET | June 19, 2013
Richard Lannen, former executive director of GM's Service Technology Group and North American Service Operations, died of cancer on June 16. He was 76.... Read More » Comments [0] | Recommendations [0]
Toyota's U.S. aces now run the Americas
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013 | UPDATED: 6/17/13 8:16 am ET -- correction
North America and South America are radically different markets. But Toyota Motor Corp. has installed two familiar names from the United States to lead them.... Read More »| Related topics: | Automotive News All Stars | Final Assembly | Future Product | Vehicle Design | Management Briefing Seminars | Vehicle Technology | Manufacturing | PACE Awards | Obituaries | Talk from the Top | World Congress |
GM puts ex-labor chief back on the battlefield
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Last week, Diana Tremblay was reassigned from her post as GM's top manufacturing executive in North America to lead a newly formed business unit charged with whacking away at the company's bureaucracy. The idea is to wring out nearly $2 billion in cost savings by streamlining everything from human resources to facilities management.... Read More »LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A special award to Bob Lutz
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
It's so nice that we have Bob Lutz around to psychoanalyze our industry's leaders.... Read More »Lieblein leads GM's bid to cut costs while rolling out new products
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
How can an auto company save money while introducing 18 new or refreshed vehicles in 12 months? General Motors must answer that question if the company is to achieve CEO Dan Akerson's goal of increasing profits and widening profit margins this year and next. And the executive who must provide a lot of the answers is Grace Lieblein, 52, GM's purchasing boss.... Read More »Q&A: JEAN-MARC GALES, CLEPA
Global footprint, tech prowess buoy European suppliers
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Europe is in a deep slump, but many suppliers in the region are adding business because of their global footprints. The key for Europe's parts makers is technology, says Jean-Marc Gales, CEO of CLEPA, a European supplier trade association.... Read More »Q&A: PETER GUTZMER, SCHAEFFLER AG
Schaeffler exec: Suppliers will play bigger role in engines
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE CONGRESS
Europe in the spotlight
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Industry leaders gathered in Paris last week for the 16th annual Automotive News Europe Congress and third annual Rising Stars program. PHOTOS BY SILVIA STEINBACH... Read More »RICHARD JOHNSON
Lutz admires entrepreneurs, couldn't be one
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Bob Lutz says nice things about Rick Wagoner in his new book, Icons and Idiots, but faults his former boss at General Motors for coddling "useless" executives. Lutz got sideways with a few bosses in his time and never made CEO. Should he have been an entrepreneur instead of a corporate high-flyer?... Read More »GM's Barra cuts costs, emerges as CEO contender
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 14, 2013
Mary Barra is a corporate survivor who has played a role in the soap opera of GM management for a generation, emerging on a very public stage as the leader of the company's $15 billion vehicle development operations -- a role that will largely determine the success or failure of the company for a decade or more.... Read More »Marchionne said to be finalizing Fiat-Chrysler refinancing deals
9:47 am U.S. ET | June 14, 2013
Chrysler-Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne is closing in on refinancing deals for both automakers ahead of a plan to merge the two companies, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.... Read More »All-Stars
Toyota's incoming chairman covets Supra-like sports car
9:19 am U.S. ET | June 12, 2013
Toyota's incoming chairman said he wants the sports car the company is developing with BMW to be a mid-sized vehicle comparable to the discontinued Supra.... Read More »GM's Lieblein aims to save $1 billion amid 18 new vehicles
9:53 am U.S. ET | June 11, 2013
It's a billion-dollar conundrum for an auto company: how to save money while introducing 18 new or refreshed vehicles in 12 months. If resurgent General Motors is going to achieve CEO Dan Akerson's goal of continuing to increase profit this year and next -- and significantly ramp up margins -- that will have to be done.... Read More »Lutz on Wagoner: Smart, didn't make tough calls
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
Bob Lutz and Rick Wagoner were cut from different management cloth, according to Lutz in his new book, ICONS AND IDIOTS: Straight Talk on Leadership. Lutz, as General Motors vice chairman, relied heavily on his instincts, while Wagoner, as GM CEO, was deeply data driven. The two executives didn't always see eye to eye, but they did get along.... Read More »GM taps manufacturing exec to reduce bureaucracy
2:56 pm U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
General Motors has appointed Diana Tremblay, its top manufacturing executive in North America and a seasoned labor negotiator, to help tackle the company's notoriously thick bureaucracy.... Read More »Can Nissan exec repeat Mexico miracle in U.S.?
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
Jose Munoz, who most recently dazzled Nissan leaders by pushing the company's Mexican subsidiary into market dominance, became senior vice president of sales and marketing for Nissan and Infiniti brands over North and South America and the Caribbean on April 1.... Read More »EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
CEOs' pay grows with the economy
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
Ford CEO Alan Mulally has repeated as highest-paid CEO at publicly traded North America-based automotive companies. Mulally took home $68,443,381 in 2012, up slightly from the $68,247,702 he made in 2011. He climbed to the top of last year's list after placing third in the 2010 rankings. Unlike previous years, Mulally isn't the only automaker CEO on the list. No.... Read More »Enterprise Holdings vet Nicholson takes the reins
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
Enterprise Holdings Inc.'s new boss, Pamela Nicholson, is the rental-car company's first leader from outside the founding Taylor family, but she knows Enterprise well. Nicholson, promoted last week to CEO, has been at the company for 32 years. She has been COO for 10 years and president for five, Enterprise said.... Read More »Nissan dealer gripes greet new execs
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 3, 2013
Nissan dealers have given the franchise a poor report card just as a new management team takes over. Former Ram Truck CEO Fred Diaz, brand new to his job as U.S. vice president of Nissan Division, and Jose Munoz, Nissan's newly installed senior vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas, have gotten an earful about falling franchise values and uncompetitive products.... Read More »KRISHNAN M. ANANTHARAMAN
Whether it's arrogance, genius or both, Musk has an EV vision
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 3, 2013
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors, thinks he can do the things that people say can't be done. Some people see that as arrogance. Others see courage and vision. But on this there's little debate: Step after step, Musk and his 10-year-old Silicon Valley startup are setting the pace and the standards for the yet-unproven market for electric vehicles.... Read More »
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 Dealer O.C. Welch's big-truck turnaroundAfter Mercury's demise, South Carolina Ford-Lincoln dealer O.C. Welch had to find a way to replace lost revenue. He decided to load up on Super Duty pickups – and sell them online. Mon., June 17» Watch the Video |
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