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Ford to Model Itself After Toyota

Agent009 submitted on 11/13/2006 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:32:18 AM

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Ford Motor Co.

President and CEO Alan Mulally said Friday that he plans to weld Ford's disparate regional divisions and brands into a single global operation capable of competing with the company he most admires in the world: Toyota Motor Corp. Mulally, who joined Ford six weeks ago, delivered the message in an hour-long interview Friday with The Detroit News that covered the myriad challenges facing Ford today and his plan for reversing crippling financial losses that threaten the company's future. The 61-year-old former Boeing Co. executive expressed optimism but did not sugarcoat Ford's problems or the need for a fundamental and far-reaching reorganization of the company. "There's not one Ford. There's Ford of North America, there's Ford of South America, there's probably three Fords that make up Ford of Europe. There's Australia. There's China, India -- there's a lot of Fords, and they're operated very separately as business units," Mulally said. "We've got to go from where we are to leverage our global assets to compete as one company going forward."

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horta

This make great since....

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Posted on 11/13/2006 11:18:44 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

con_tiki

Ford/GM/Chrysler biggest problem is QUALITY!!! How bout addressing that?? Toyota/Honda builds all kind of different vehicles for different countries with the same quality, that is why they succeed!! Honda even got lazyass americans to built high quality Accords for exports back to Japan. Why can't Ford do that?


I agree with you on this RICEMASTER, it is so true!!

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Posted on 12/6/2006 8:01:56 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

shiftless

To belittle japanese product when they first came out and then to have them build cars here in the state only to see them succeed and having their new CEO say that they need to follow suit is the biggest compliment a japanese car maker can ever dream of.

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Posted on 11/13/2006 4:13:14 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

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