businessweek.com - 11/30/2008
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The Detroit Free Press reported today that General Motors, in its attempt to put forth a workable restructuring plan to keep it from going bankrupt, is at least looking at killing off three brands—Pontiac, Saab and Hummer. Everyone knows...
angryblackbitch.blogspot.com - 12/8/2008
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angryblackbitch.blogspot.com —
A bitch saw a news report on the
worker sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors and…well, wow!...
The story is getting a lot of play and this bitch thinks this worker action is an example of the reality many workers face in these fubaristic economic times. ...
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Pondering the Chicago sit-in...
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Auto Industry Bleg
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Auto Industry Bleg I've been trying to understand the problems of the auto industry, and on a couple of points I can't quite seem to figure out what's going on. So I thought: why not ask? (1) A quote from Business Week : "Everyone knows that GM is over-branded. (...) At the core of GM's problems is that it does not have, and has not had, enough resources to feed eight brands with unique products, and then the resources to feed each brand with unique and competitive brand campaigns." I assume that having too many brands implies not just a pointless attempt to distinguish them ...
Auto Industry Bleg
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I've been trying to understand the problems of the auto industry, and on a couple of points I can't quite seem to figure out what's going on. So I thought: why not ask?
(1) A quote from Business Week:
"Everyone knows that GM is over-branded. (...) At the core of GM’s problems is that it does not have, and has not had, enough resources to feed eight brands with unique products, and then the resources to feed each brand with unique and competitive brand campaigns."
I assume that having too many brands ...
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