General Motors

The General Motors Company, forby kent as GM, is a Unitit States-based automaker wi its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. The company manufactures caurs an larries in 34 kintras, recently employed 244,500 fowk aroond the warld, an sells an services vehicles in some 140 kintras.[5] Bi sales, GM rankt as the lairgest U.S. automakker an the warld's seicont-lairgest for 2008,[5] haein the third-heichest 2008 global revenues amang automakers on the Fortune Global 500.[6]

General Motors Company
Public
Treddit as
IndustrieAutomotive
PredecessorGeneral Motors Corporation (1908–2009)
Foondit16 September 1908; 115 years ago (1908-09-16)
Foonder
  • William C. Durant
  • Charles Stewart Mott
  • Frederic L. Smith
HeidquartersDetroit, Michigan, Unitit States
Nummer o locations
396 facilities on sax continents[1]
Area served
Warldwide
Key fowk
Tim Solso, (Chairman)
Mary Barra, (CEO)
Dan Ammann, (President)
Products
Production ootpit
Increase 9,714,652 vehicles (2013)[2]
Services
  • Vehicle financin
RevenueIncrease US$166.3 billion (2016)[3]
Operatin income
Increase US$9.545 billion (2016)[3]
Net income
Increase US$9.427 billion (2016)[3]
Tot assetsIncrease US$221.6 billion (2016)[3]
Tot equityIncrease US$43.83 billion (2016)[3]
Nummer o employees
215,000 (2016)[1]
DiveesionsBuick
Chevrolet
Cadillac
GMC
Subsidiaries
Wabsteidgm.com
Footnotes / references
[4]

Buists

Current buists

MarqueYears usedMercats
Buicksyne 1908North Americae, Cheenae, Israel, Taiwan
Cadillacsyne 1909Global (except Sooth Americae, Indie, SE Asie, Australie)
GMCsyne 1912North Americae, Middle East
Chevroletsyne 1917Global (except Australie, New Zealand, Sooth Korea, Vietnam)
Holdensyne 1948Australie, New Zealand
Daewoosyne 2002Sooth Korea, Vietnam

Discontinued buists

  • Welch (1903–1911)
  • Rainier (1905–1911)
  • Welch-Marquette (see Marquette)
  • Cartercar (1905–1915)
  • Elmore (1909–1912)
  • Rapid Truck (1909–1912)
  • Reliance Truck (1909–1912)
  • Welch-Detroit (1910–1911)
  • Marquette (1912)
  • Peninsular (1912) (see Marquette)
  • Samson Tractor (1917–1922)
  • Scripps-Booth (1917–1923)
  • Marquette (1930)
  • Oakland (1909–1931)
  • Viking (1929–1931)
  • LaSalle (1927–1940)
 
  • McLaughlin (1918–1942)
  • Yellow Coach (1925–1943)
  • Beaumont (1966–1969)
  • Envoy (1960–1970)
  • Acadian (1962–1971)
  • Ranger (1968–1976)
  • Bedford Vehicles (1929–1987)
  • General Motors Diesel Division (1938–1987)
  • Passport (1988–1991)
  • Asüna (1993-1995)
  • Geo (1989–1997)
  • Oldsmobile (1897–2004)
  • Pontiac (1926–2010)
  • Saturn (1985–2010)
  • Hummer (1998–2010)

Sauld buists

  • Vauxhall (1925-2017), sauld tae French manufacturer Groupe PSA
  • Lotus (1986-1993), sauld tae Luxembourg-based A.C.B.N. Holdings S.A.
  • Frigidaire (1919-1979), sauld tae Ohio-based White Consolidated Industries
  • Saab (1989-2010), sauld tae Dutch supercaur manufacturer Spyker Cars NV
  • Opel (1929-2017), sauld tae French manufacturer Groupe PSA

Umwhile affiliates

  • Fiat (2000–2005), GM awned 20 percent at ane time wi put option[7]
  • Fuji Heavy Industries, manufacturer o Subaru (1999–2006), GM awned 20 percent at ane time[8]
  • Isuzu (1971–2006), GM awned 49 percent at ane time[9]
  • Suzuki (1981–2008), GM awned ower 20 percent at ane time[10]

Spin-affs

  • GM Defense 1950–2003 wis ance pairt o General Motors Diesel Division an as General Dynamics Land Systems division o General Dynamics
  • Electro Motive Division of General Motors wis awso ance pairt o General Motors Diesel Division an nou kent as Electro-Motive Diesel
  • Detroit Diesel sauld tae Penske Corporation; braken up an portion sauld to the umshile Daimler-Chrysler AG (nou Daimler AG); nou pairt o Daimler AG
  • Transit division wis sauld tae Motor Coach Industries and Transportation Manufacturing Corporation
    • RTS an Classic bus richts owned bi MCI And TMC wur sauld aff tae Nova Bus; nou produced bi Millennium Transit Services
  • Diesel Division of General Motors of Canada Limited spun aff an later acquired bi General Motors Canada as Diesel Division o General Motors of Canada Limited
  • EDS – Electronic Data Systems
  • Hughes Electronics (Nou The DirecTV Group)
  • 1999 GM spun aff its pairts makin operations as Delphi

References