Bob Socia

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GM plans to add four more plants in China

8:03 am U.S. ET | April 20, 2013
General Motors plans to add four new plants in the next three years in China to bring its production capacity to 5 million vehicles a year, the head of GM China said at the Shanghai auto show.... Read More »

 

Q&A: BOB SOCIA

GM China's Socia: More luxury models, stores, local output

12:01 am U.S. ET | Feb. 18, 2013
By necessity, Bob Socia is a multitasker. Over the past four months, he has reorganized General Motors' expansion in India, planned the company's return to Indonesia, sought a higher profile for Cadillac in China and wooed joint-venture partner SAIC Motor Corp.... Read More »

 

GM promotes Grace Lieblein to head of global purchasing, supply chain

10:06 am U.S. ET | Dec. 18, 2012
General Motors has appointed the head of its Brazil operations as the company's global purchasing czar. Grace Lieblein, 52, will oversee GM's $77 billion annual purchasing budget as the company's vice president of global purchasing and supply chain, GM said in a statement today. She will assume the post immediately, reporting to GM Vice Chairman Steve Girsky.... Read More »

 

GM names Kim Brycz interim purchasing chief

5:32 pm U.S. ET | Oct. 9, 2012
GM has named Kim Brycz, a veteran purchasing executive, as interim purchasing chief while the company seeks a permanent replacement for Bob Socia. Brycz, the company's 51-year-old executive director of indirect materials, machinery and equipment, will oversee global purchasing while the company conducts a search for a permanent chief, GM spokesman Dave Roman said Tuesday.... Read More »

 

Suppliers praise GM's Socia

12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 17, 2012
About 600 supplier executives who gathered last week for a meeting with General Motors brass got some news they hadn't bargained for: Global purchasing chief Bob Socia, who has done much to repair GM's strained relations with the supply base, is being reassigned. Socia, 58, will take over as president of GM China on Oct. 1.... Read More »

 

GM purchasing boss Bob Socia to lead China operations

9:35 am U.S. ET | Sept. 12, 2012
General Motors has appointed global purchasing chief Bob Socia as president of GM China, succeeding the retiring Kevin Wale, effective Oct. 1. Wale became president of GM China in 2005, growing sales from 560,000 units that year to 2.5 million in 2011 -- making China GM's largest market.... Read More »

 

GM purchasing chief Socia to succeed Wale as China boss

Sept. 12, 2012 15:35 CET
GM has appointed global purchasing chief Bob Socia as president of GM China, succeeding the retiring Kevin Wale, effective Oct. 1. Wale became president of GM China in 2005, growing sales from 560,000 units that year to 2.5 million in 2011 -- making China GM's largest market.... Read More »