Finance Project

Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Michigan, manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. It is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. The Company has about 198,000 employees and 90 plants worldwide with the automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The Company also provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. The revenue of the company is $136.26 billion with a net income of $20.21 billion by 2011.

Chevrolet was founded in 1911 in Detroit and was later purchased by American automotive corporation General Motors. Around 4.79 million Chevrolet vehicles were sold in over 130 countries in 2014, placing it as the #62 most valuable brand in the world. Here are eight little known facts about the car manufacturer!

General motors were founded by William “Billy” Durant on September 16, 1908. GM was basically formed as a holding company for Buick. Although GM owned aircrafts in the 1930’s; there main focus was on motorized vehicles. Later GM became one of the largest automobile manufactures in the US. In fact GM has a headquarters located in Detroit Michigan with over 212,000 employees (General motors).

Following the formation of General Motors in 1909, the newly-minted company created a new brand named for a road racer, Louis Chevrolet. The Chevrolet marque joined Buick, Cadillac, Oakland and several smaller brands and eventually became the mainstream product line for GM. Today, Chevrolet is one of the largest and most recognizable car brands in the world.

1. How should PDVSA finance the development of the Orinoco Basin? Can you define project finance? Is Petrozuata a project? What are the costs and benefits of using project finance instead of the traditional (debt) finance – as Mr. Bustillos said, PDVSA could have finance the debt internally (p.7 of the case)?

The US automobile manufacturing industry includes about 200 companies with combined annual revenue of about $250 billion. Major companies are GM, Ford, and Chrysler (which is controlled by Italy 's Fiat). The industry is highly concentrated: the top three companies account for more than 90 percent of revenue.

The journey of General Motors (GM) can be followed back to 1887 when Ransom E. Olds began the Olds Motor Vehicle Company Inc., (OMVC) in Michigan, USA, and began offering vehicles under the Oldsmobile brand. In May 1903, Buick Motor Company (Buick) was formed by David Dunbar Buick and Buick began assembling and offering vehicles by 1907. In spite of having a decent begin and offering 6,500 vehicles every year somewhere around 1901 and 1908, OMVC began to face serious rivalry from other significant car organizations like Buick, Cadillac Car Company3 (Cadillac), and Oakland Engine Auto Company4 (OMCC).

Strong brand portfolio. M at present offers 18 vehicles brands to fulfill whatever number client needs as could be allowed. The most prevalent brands are Cadillac, Buick, GMC and Chevrolet that offer extremely well in USA and China. Chevrolet came to a worldwide deals made and traded 4.95 million units in 2012.

This paper discusses the Ford Motor Company, the mission, and keys to their success. In addition, there will be discussions centered on the current company’s market summary. This paper will examine Ford Motor Company’s SWOT analysis, the company’s strengthens, weakness, opportunities, and threats. In addition, this would also look at the automotive driving forces, that make it alluring for firms to join the industry. Finally, this paper will discuss the competition and critical issues Ford Motor Company Faces.

General Motors Company was founded as a holding company to consolidate several different motor companies producing Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Oakland and more in 1908 by William C. Durant. In 1912 they came out with an electric self-starter making the hand crank obsolete. In 1920 Durant was forced out of the company and Alfred P. Sloan Jr took over as president. Sloan reorganized the company into 5 main divisions Cadillac, Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Chevrolet. In 1929 GM surpassed Ford to become the leading American passenger-car manufacturer and in 1941 they were the world’s largest manufacturer of motor vehicles. In 1997 GM suffered heavy losses and had to close many plants, then in 2004 they discontinued the Oldsmobile brand. In 2008 Toyota surpassed GM and was named the world’s largest automaker. At the end of 2008 the auto companies were in trouble and president Bush announced the bail-out of ‘The Big Three” automakers – Chrysler, General Motors, and Ford. GM filed bankruptcy in June of 2009, reorganized and emerged from bankruptcy a month later. They discontinued the Saturn and Pontiac brands in 2010, this left GM with only four divisions: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC. In 2010 GM rejoined the stock market and a year later were renamed the largest automaker in the world. In 2015 GM was the third in auto sales behind Toyota and Volkswagen.

General Motors (GM) is a major US-based automotive company based in Detroit founded on September 16, 1908 by William C. Durant and Charles Stewart Mott. It is one of the largest automotive manufacturers and vehicle parts in the world. Both US and International companies like Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Volvo, and BMW are the major competitors for General Motors (Wikipedia).

The automotive industry is widespread globally with a wide range of organizations involved in the following: development, marketing, manufacturing, designing, and sales. This analysis will take a further look at automakers in the industry, more specifically General Motors (GM), Volkswagen (VLKAY, Honda, Nissan, Toyota. Beginning around the 1890s, the automotive industry has evolved and undergone shift changes in consumer trends, product development, marketing, and industry competition shifts. Some of the major changes have been the result of: Regulatory, Safety, Economy, Reliability, and Environmental.

General motors are an American based multinational company commonly known as GM. The headquarters of GM is located at Detroit, Michigan. GM is mainly famous for the designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicle parts and for the financial services.

GM founded in 1908, was the largest automaker in the world.   GM had managed operations in over 50 countries and sold over $160 billion in sales with $4.4 in profits alone in the year 2000.   GM did have problems of its as their market share had diminished to a mere 13.6%

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