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General Motors Europe 1 often abbreviated GM Europe was responsible for the operations of General Motors GM subsidiary companies in Europe was created by GM in 1986 and had 14 production and assembly facilities in 9 countries, and employs approximately 54,500 people 2 core of GM Europe brands Vauxhall and Opel England based based in Germany that sell the same range of cars in different markets it once owned Swedish Saab until early 2010 and sold Chevrolets between 2005 and 2015, the American brand Cadillac is imported to Europe in small quantities in 2009, General Motors announced GM to transfer its European headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland in Rüsselsheim, Germany to strengthen its German subsidiary Opel 3.
In Europe, GM Europe had 14 production facilities and vehicle assembly in nine countries and employed approximately 54,500 additional people many direct jobs were provided by some 8700 sales outlets and independent service in 2005, the share of GM's market European WAS April 9.
The total number of European employees were 54500 in May 2009 4.
General Motors entered the European market only three years after the founding of the company in 1908. This involved the Chevrolet cars built in Denmark in 1923 and Belgium in 1925. This participation has been greatly expanded by Vauxhall acquisitions in 1925 Opel in Germany in 1929 originally both Vauxhall and Opel had operated independently of each other with completely separate product lines and were direct competitors outside their domestic markets.
In the early 1970s, GM began to merge the product lines of both companies, with Opel develop a set of common platforms from which a range of vehicles could be derived These vehicles transported either the Opel brand or Vauxhall as the Vauxhall used market in the UK market, Opel everywhere This allowed manufacturing resources to be pooled, so Opel badged vehicles were produced in factories Vauxhall and vice versa in the UK the only market where both brands were sold at the same time, they were marketed as a Vauxhall-Opel, following the merger of Vauxhall dealer networks and Opel previously separate in 1980 Opel was positioned in the UK as a performance brand luxury with only the Manta beaches Senator and Monza offered in the UK Elsewhere in Europe, Bedford Vauxhall brand was used on fo urgonnettes derived cars and heavy goods vehicles.
IBC Vehicles of a joint venture between GM and Isuzu was created in 1985. The new company took over the Bedford van factory in Luton, producing a range of light commercial vehicles engineering badge based on Isuzu and Suzuki designs IBC more later moving to the manufacture of the base Isuzu- Frontera SUV model Isuzu retire later IBC vehicles in 1998 with Renault and the latest Renault-Nissan Alliance to take his place in the company which was later renamed GMM Luton manufacturing the Vivaro family of light cargo trucks.
In 1986, 1 GM officially opened GM Europe, the same year as the last true Vauxhall van CF Bedford ceased production in 1987, GM Europe sold the heavy truck division of Bedford AWD Ltd, the brand Bedford continued on light commercial vehicles until 1990 when it was abandoned completely new AWD struggled as an independent company away from GM, and collapsed in 1992, ending the line of Bedford trucks and the factory was closed later Dunstable .
In 1988, following the judgment of the Manta model Senator became a Vauxhall in 1984, while the coupe Monza was killed in 1987, Opel was officially abandoned in the UK market, while Vauxhall was arrested in the Republic Ireland for Opel six years earlier GM Europe announced in 1991 that the sixth generation Opel Kadett platform would adopt the name Astra already used by Vauxhall inaugurating a new policy to standardize model names across both brands , further dilute the independence of Vauxhall Opel in 2002, it was announced that car production lines Vauxhall in Luton would close after the introduction of the third generation Vectra.
Also in 1986, GM bought the Lotus Group in England the first fruit of the purchase is the Special Edition Lotus Carlton Omega sedan Seven years later, August 27, 1993, GM sold the company for $ 30 million to owners Bugatti GM acquired a 50 percent stake in Saab of Sweden in 1989, in full ownership in 2000 General Motors has also developed a partnership with and acquired a stake in Fiat in 2000 GM sold its minority stakes and dissolved partnership in 2005, following a legal battle regarding the conditions of a given option to sell Fiat.
Following the 2008 global financial crisis and the GM fall into bankruptcy, on 30 May 2009, it was announced was an agreement to transfer New Opel plus Vauxhall, minus Saab 5 assets to a separate company controlled by a trustee.
The agreement guaranteed by the German government was brokered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel GM was expected to retain a minority stake of 35 in the new company 6 7 Opel staff 10, 8 with a plan that proposed to sell the majority of the company one of the two partners.
A majority-owned by a consortium of Russian Sberbank 35, Magna International of Canada 20 and employees of Opel and car dealers 10.
The new company would not be allowed to sell Opel cars in the United States and China permanently at least temporarily markets, which are the two largest markets in the world 9.
On 1 June 2009, GM filed for bankruptcy court in New York as the Opel sale was negotiated two days before, with the successful bidder Magna consortium, the two companies were in fact totally isolated from the liquidation of GM assets 10 11 12 13 Magna said that their plans for Opel included attract GM or automakers third parties to build their cars and electric vehicles in Antwerp 14 If Opel needed to reduce production of its own core models then any unused capacity could be used to manufacture vehicles for other carmakers inside sources close to Magna revealed that some third possible carmakers include Ford and PSA Peugeot Citroën 15 However, negotiations broke down with Magna on details in particular the sale of intellectual property rights and distribution of all fu turs GM products in the former Soviet Union.
GM announced that final bids were to be placed with them on July 20, which resulted in three bidders 17.
Magna, still backed by Sberbank, had a last minute change to its bid to allay concerns about the influence of his Russian partner This would result in both partners having a May 27 shares in the new company with GM retaining 35.
Beijing China Automotive Industries disqualified on intellectual property issues within 18 days.
In late August 2009, there were doubts as to whether the sale of Opel would actually go ahead if an official of the German government later revealed that talks were continuing 19 was followed by RHJ International raising its offer for Opel 300m to 275m 20.
On September 10, 2009, GM agreed to sell a 55 in the German brand Opel to Magna group with the approval of the German government 21 With this decision, the president of Magna, Frank Stronach, Magna aims to take his current role as a parts supplier to a larger role as a global automaker that ranks among the leaders in the sale and construction of 22 electric cars However, November 3, 2009, GM's board annulled case Magna after coming to the conclusion that Opel was crucial to GM's global strategy 23.
With Opel ongoing restructuring plans announced the closure of its Antwerp plant in Belgium.
Originally GM planned to sell Saab to Swedish manufacturer Koenigsegg sports cars, but the deal fell through in November 2009 January 26, 2010 Saab was sold to Spyker Cars form a Swedish company now known as the automobile.
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