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General Motors, the “mother company” has faced many troubles in the past, and surfaced. A research by the National Research Council in the United States has revealed in 1992 that there had many impacts and future impacts in the automotive industry, indeed; it would affect the jobs and the internal economy. However, General Motors understood the threat potential that this and established strategic plans to revert the trend. Furthermore, whether General Motor Company was able to change the trend, and it saw the internal and external factors, prepared a strategic plan, Holden being the first brand in Australia, with at least just the 10 % of the population compared with the USA, the way to get a plan looks easier. In addition, it is easier to see a trend in countries with low population and good policymakers. In 2008 General Motors faced again the limit to bankruptcy. A fierce plan to develop and a new business association with FIAT made that GM avoid the dissolution. Even do all Europe have had a similar crisis( Boudette & Choudhury,

The purpose of this report is to examine if the reasoning behind well-known car manufacturer, Toyota’s loss of revenue and leading market position is alone as a result of extensive product recalls following a fatal crash of a Lexus ES 350 on August 28th 2009. The journal article, “Toyota Crisis: Management Issue?” (Yuanyuan Feng 2010) provides an outline of the key factors that triggered the 2009 Toyota crisis, and explores whether the fall in the company’s returns by 19% were caused purely as a result of the recall and safety concerns, or something much deeper.

Toyota by itself did not have a significant impact on GM by its self but It play a pivotal in the demise of general motors as being the killing blow to a company that was already breaking down due to a number of factors Toyotas impact was multiplied with external and internal factors that were effecting the automotive giant. Within this essay it has broken down into 5 main segments that brought about General motors downfall and explain why Toyota impact was heightened. The first segment is quality management focusing on Deming’s profound knowledge and his 7 deadly diseases and 14 points on quality management (Berry, B 2011. P.1) highlighting where GM failed and Toyota succeeded and took advantage. The next segment that

The general environment for Ford and the automotive industry in general can best be characterized by weakened economy and emerging social and political trends that are demanding higher efficiency vehicles. Although the economy has substantial stabilized since the Great Recession of 2008, it is by no means made its way back to a full recovery. Ford was also in the strongest financial position of the big three American automobile manufacturers and was able to post massive increases in sales and profits in as early as 2010 after broad sweeping restructuring efforts (Hirsch, 2010). The company also provided it could be profitable within a low volume sales environment which indicates its resilience in a new automotive market.

As it relates to the competitive structure, or the number and size distribution of companies within an industry, the automobile industry is considered a consolidated industry, where a small number of large companies dominate and are able to set prices. Traditionally, in America, these companies were called “The Big Three,” Chrysler, Ford, and GM, but Toyota, was also a major rival during the recession. “In consolidated industries, companies are interdependent, because one company’s competitive actions or moves (with regard to price, quality, and so on) directly affect the market share of its rivals, and thus their profitability” (Hill & Jones, 2012, p. 62). The relative power of consolidation on the automobile industry was high.

I - Introduction………..………...………………………………………….….….p 3 II - What are the internal and external factors that contributed to GM’s decline and eventual bankruptcy protection application?……………….....….p 4

The aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which market maturity influenced the restructuring phase that Caterpillar underwent after it was nearly put out of business in the 1980s. It will be argued that surely market maturity played a central role in the company’s restructuring, as the increase of competition and the need for product innovation brought up the need to develop an effective action plan. However, it was also the over-managed organization of the company itself that contributed to this degenerating stage and that therefore drove the

Achieving world class business performance is a major challenge in today’s society. Manufacturing companies continue to face increased competition and globalization from its competitors. (1, p. 148). The automotive industry is one of the most volatile manufacturing industries that we have, which was evident in the 2008 – 2010 automotive industry crisis. (2) This global financial downturn served notice to the American automotive manufactures to raise the bar, in order to achieve word class business performance. General Motors, one of the country’s largest automotive manufactures, had to receive a government bailout to survive. During this time many with the corporation asked themselves, if we were a world class business, would we be facing

This restricting led to the death of three of its brands, Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and the selling of another (Sweden’s Saab) to Spyker, a Dutch auto group (Krebs, 2009; Ahlander & Bailey, 2010). The company was left with five business segments and only four brands (Chevy, Cadillac, Buick, and GMC) (Senter & McManus, 2013; Maynard, 2009b). This decision to file for bankruptcy and restructure the company was an excellent one because studies have shown that restructuring of the internal workings of an organization increases both the efficiency of the company and its value to the stockholders (Brickley & Van Drunen, 1990). The positive effects of this restructuring is evidenced by the ability of the government to successfully sale the entirety of its GM stock in 2013 for a total price of $39 billion and General Motors realizing a 19% increase in sales in 2014 (McGrath, 2015; Isidore, 2013).

Forwarded here with a term paper report on “General Motors Bankruptcy” submitted by Siddharth Dixit Enrollment No A7004611108 student of

In the 1950’s and 1960’s GM dominated the American market, in 1965 the company had half the U.S market and was as good as its rivals, while losing $31 billion in 2008 made vast improvements in productivity

Calamites such as botched mergers of BMW and Rover, or Ford’s buy of Land Rover and Jaguar, or Daimler and Chrysler from a few years prior. The current proposed merger of General Motors and Chrysler was brought up due to the economic conditions, as both companies were suffering tremendously despite governmental intervention by the Federal Reserve. Prior to the planned merger, General Motors had been in constant state of restructuring dating back to 1993 [1]. These past 15 years for General Motors consisted of constant buyouts, write-downs, streamlining, plant closures, dealer write-offs, and other restructuring efforts. Real sizeable profits came during the late 90s to early 2000s when gas prices were cheap (owing to the line of trucks and SUVs cranked out by General Motors) and housing prices were over inflated. There were very few car companies that did not earn decent profits during this timeframe, but any other cyclical downturn of the economy sent General Motors into a tailspin financially. In fact, General Motors was often termed the car company that was too big to fail, where the ultimate size of the corporation seemingly was the only factor keeping it alive.

This research paper presents some recommendations and a related action plan to address the strategic changes which are deemed crucial to the survival of General Motors (GM). An overview of the contemporary situation at the corporation is provided in this section of the paper, which is then followed by specific recommendations and a strategic plan of action to bring about the changes which are necessary for the company’s survival in these turbulent times.

Toyota reveals that the average age of the owner of a Toyota car is 48. Even though the company is trying to attract the young adult the average keeps the target consumer group of an older age. In this part paper will be discussed a group that Toyota wants to attract and that group is young adults. According to Tilin it is reported that that Toyota Scion has been proven to be a very cost effective car for the groups that fall under this category (Tilin, 2003).

This extended essay will be focused on answering the research question “What will be the future business impacts on GM Holden LTD. resulting from its decision to close its manufacturing operations in Australia?” Holden is one of the first Australian founded and owned vehicle producer in the country, it produces an extensive variety of motor vehicles in Australia and its position in the market started to fluctuate in the past couple of decades due to an increase in competition, Toyota being the strongest competitor. They both have been struggling to achieve the most market share and become the market leader but, Holden still remains to be Australia’s top vehicle seller and is represented by more than 250 dealerships (Holden, n.d., para. 1) nationally whereas Toyota has around 306 (Toyota, 2013, para 3). Holden was the only Australian car manufacturer in the past for a while which is the reason that they have always been successful due to there being little to no competition as they started the