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General Motors Corp.
| Headquarters location: 100 Renaissance Center Detroit, MI 48243 |  | Tel. (313) 556-5000 Job offers, investor relations: www.gm.com Stock:  |
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« ETHICAL » RATING OF GENERAL_MOTORS
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| Job: 39% of company's jobs cut since 1998 |
| Environment: 2 major pollution(s) |
| Delinquency: 8 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency |
| Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 11 offshore financial center(s) |
| Sales: more than 181 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales |
| Top management: earns 229 times the median income in the United States (32000 US$/year) |
| Influence: 11 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying |
| Advertising & marketing: 7 dubious practice(s) |
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Relevance: business & market share |
World locations & Manufacturing |
country incentive : address & contact : production type source |
 |  | General Motors Finance (Barbados) Ltd : | |  |
 |  | Hughes Electronics Foreign Sales Corporation : | |  |
 | | Gravatai : Celta subcompact | | AP  |
 | | Shanghai : Production, Centre de recherche sur les carburants alternatifs | | Les Echos |
 | | SAIC-GM-Wuling Automotive Co. Ltd (34%) : minivans | | Les Echos  |
 | | Shanghai General Motors Co. Ltd., Jinqiao EPZ : | | Les Echos  |
 |  | Po Box 16979, Jebel Ali free zone : | |  |
 |  | First HNS Mauritius , Ltd : | |  |
 |  | Brazauto Trading (Cayman) Limited : | |  |
 |  | Brazauto Industria e Comercio Ltda : | |  |
 |  | Auto Lease Payment Corporation : | |  |
 |  | General Motors Foreign Sales Corporation : | |  |
 |  | Hughes Foreign Sales Corporation : | |  |
 | | Etat du Maharashtra : Production, 100 000 Chevrolet Spark / year | | Les Echos  |
 | | 4th plant in Mexico, San Luis Potosi : | | AFP  |
 | | COAHUILA SALTILLO CARRET SALTILLO PIEDRAS NEGRAS & 6253000 : | |  |
 | | GUANAJUATO SILAO CARRET. CUOTA SILAO-GUANAJUATO & 6253000 : | |  |
 | | MEXICO TOLUCA INDUSTRIA AUTOMOTRIZ & 72 792020 : | |  |
 |  | General Motors Automobiles Philippines, Inc : | |  |
 | | Europark free zone, Gliwice : Opel Agila | | Les Echos  |
 | | S Petersburg : Production, Chevrolet capacité 50000 Captiva/an | | Kommersant  |
 | | J-V with Avtovaz : | |  |
 | | Togliatti (JV Lada) : 35000 Lada Niva/an | | Les Echos  |
 |  | General Motors Asia Pacific (Pte) Ltd : | |  |
 |  | General Motors (Europe) AG, Zurich : | |  |
 |  | MOWG Motorwagenfabrik AG : | |  |
 |  | General Motors Acceptance Corporation Suisse S.A : | |  |
 |  | GM-Saab Communication GmbH : | |  |
 | | Rayong : Zafira minivan, 40000/year, 90% for export | | AP  |
 |  | General Motors Uruguay, S.A : | |  |
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General Motors is managed by |
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| 2006 | Disinformation: General Motors broadcasted a video news release (VNR), a fake TV news, on cable channel WWTV-9, without disclosure.: | PR Watch  |
| 2006 | Disinformation: General Motors broadcasted a video news release (VNR), a fake TV news, on cable channel KSLA-12, without disclosure.: | PR Watch  |
| 2006 | Disinformation: Cadillac broadcasted a video news release (VNR), a fake TV news, on cable channel KOKH-25, without disclosure.: | PR Watch  |
| 2004 | Disinformation: PR campaign with Interpublic PR: ad budget: 2800 million US$; public relations: I | Les Echos  |
| 2002 | Disinformation: PR campaign with Strat@comm: public relations: S | PR Watch  |
| 2002 | Arguable partnership: Nature Conservancy: value: Nature protection; | Washington.  |
| 2002 | slogan: Opel. Des idées fraîches pour de meilleures voitures.; |  |
| 2002 | slogan: Idee brillanti, auto migliori.; |  |
| 1999 | slogan: Th electric car is here.; |  |
| 1999 | slogan: L'appel du volant; |  |
| 1998 | slogan: L'art du mouvement.; |  |
| 1998 | value: Evasion; slogan: Opel Frontera, un nouveau penchant pour l'aventure.; |  |
| 1996 | slogan: Opel Corsa, no contest.; |  |
| 1994 | Disinformation: PR campaign with Interpublic PR: public relations: I |  |
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| 2008 | -3550 | Internal restructuring: In the face of continued declines in sales of full-size pickups and sport-utility vehicles, General Motors eliminates shifts at Janesville, Wis., and three other plants. About 750 workers at Janesville will be placed on indefinite layoff July 14, 2008. The plants in Pontiac and Flint, Mich., will lose one shift July 14, and in Oshawa, Ontario, the second shift will end Sept. 8, 2008. The moves will cut production of pickups by about 88,000 and SUVs by 50,000, GM said.: United States of America | Chicago Tr.  |
| 2007 | -1400 | Internal restructuring: GM cuts 1400 jobs in its Anvers Opel factory.: Belgium | AFP  |
| 2006 | -900 | Internal restructuring: General Motors cuts a third of the payroll of its Ellesmere Port plant.: United Kingdom |  |
| 2005 | -5000 | Closure/Bankruptcy: Entre 2006 et 2008, GM fermera 5 usines cinq usines d'assemblage deux sites de pressage de carosseries, deux sites d'assemblage de transmissions et plusieurs sites de fabrication de pièces détachées. GM réduira sa production de voitures de 30% par rapport à 2002: United States of America | AFP  |
| 2005 | -1400 | Internal restructuring: Baisse de la production de son site d'Adelaïde. L'usine fabrique le modèle Commodore, dont les ventes ont baissé de 6% sur l'exercice achevé en juillet, alors que les ventes de GM en Australie ont augmenté de manière générale de 1,8%.: Australia | AFP  |
| 2005 | 324000 -25000 | Internal restructuring: GM will cut at least 25,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs by the end of 2008 and close additional assembly and parts plants to reduce costs. Fixed costs such as factories and labor amounted to 39 percent of revenue in the first quarter, the figure should be about 25 percent for GM to be competitive, the CEO said. GM has trimmed 80,000 employees, including 39,000 in North America, since Wagoner became chief executive in June 2000.: | Bloomberg |
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