 Ford posts $997M 3Q profit!!, they're doing something right |
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  Nov 2 2009, 07:20 AM
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 ED HEAD  Group: Members Posts: 5,328 Joined: 20-November 05 From: Va, USA Member No.: 6,130  |
Nov. 2, 2009 Ford posts $997M 3Q profit, beats expectations BY BRENT SNAVELY FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER -------------------- The Veltronis ‘Si puo fare!’ (‘Yes we can!’) in Support for Obama |
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Nov 2 2009, 07:41 AM
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 Rhythm Tuba for Deathtongue Group: Moderator Posts: 31,127 Joined: 15-July 05 Member No.: 18 |
And that's why UAW members are refusing the concessionary contract.
Looks like cash-for-clunkers worked. GoU --------------------   Enjoying the implosion of the Republican Party and Conservatism  |
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Nov 2 2009, 07:54 AM
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ED HEAD Group: Members Posts: 7,855 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Shulin, Taiwan and West Hollywood, CA Member No.: 2,465 |
It is worth noting that only about 1/3 of that profit came from Ford's North American division.
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Nov 2 2009, 12:24 PM
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Team Fargo Group: Members Posts: 1,097 Joined: 24-March 08 From: Seattle Member No.: 22,945 |
QUOTE (queteimporta @ Nov 2 2009, 08:54 AM)  It is worth noting that only about 1/3 of that profit came from Ford's North American division. Which just goes to show how silly it is to keep great EU products out of our market we could have had a US line to assemble the EU products of GM and Ford and kicked ass but no the marketing guys had their heads up wherever and big auto refused to work with the enviro lobby to to get sane regs on diesel so we could build or import high MPG products. I mean crap they are RACING diesel MB and Jags! |
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Nov 7 2009, 10:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 5-October 09 From: Lorain Ohio Member No.: 39,320 |
This will be interesting will ford still try to get concession from the union?
They prove they can make a profit with the current labor contract. So there is no need to try. |
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Nov 8 2009, 04:00 PM
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Rhythm Tuba for Deathtongue Group: Moderator Posts: 31,127 Joined: 15-July 05 Member No.: 18 |
QUOTE (ne-ohio @ Nov 7 2009, 10:03 PM) This will be interesting will ford still try to get concession from the union? They prove they can make a profit with the current labor contract. So there is no need to try. If the CEO gets big raises and bonuses, then they shouldn't ask for any concessions from the workers. GoU -------------------- Enjoying the implosion of the Republican Party and Conservatism |
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Nov 15 2009, 03:02 PM
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QUOTE (dportjoe @ Nov 2 2009, 11:24 AM) Which just goes to show how silly it is to keep great EU products out of our market we could have had a US line to assemble the EU products of GM and Ford and kicked ass but no the marketing guys had their heads up wherever and big auto refused to work with the enviro lobby to to get sane regs on diesel so we could build or import high MPG products. I mean crap they are RACING diesel MB and Jags! Ford sold Jaguar last year because they were losing too much money on that brand. |
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Nov 15 2009, 04:31 PM
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 ED HEAD Group: Members Posts: 13,707 Joined: 28-December 05 Member No.: 7,185 |
looks like ford has hit in the FUSION
QUOTE Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that its Fusion midsize sedan has already broken the model's annual sales record even though U.S. auto sales have dropped 25 percent. Ford sold 151,137 Fusions through Wednesday, beating the full-year sales record of 149,552 set in 2007, the company said in a statement. Fusion sales through the first 10 months of the year were up 15 percent from the same period in 2008, according to Autodata Corp. The Fusion was the top-selling car made by a Detroit automaker through October. any owners here? hey, and there is a hybrid This post has been edited by tritumi: Nov 15 2009, 04:33 PM -------------------- Then let us again examine whether that is a sound statement, or do we let it pass, and if one of us, or someone else, merely says that something is so, do we accept that it is so? Or should we examine what the speaker means? - Socrates, Euthryphro
i have always drawn attention to the links between power and violence and how authoritarian power uses coercion and ideology. i oppose violence and coercion and will continue to do so. - tritumi, march 5, 2009 The struggle of people against power is [the] struggle of memory against forgetting. - Milan Kundera Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. - Kenneth Boulding The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. - Steve Biko |
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