ZF Friedrichshafen's sales increased by 8% to €12.65 billion last year, operating profit reached €917 million, and the group's workforce grew by 4% to 57,372.
General Motors is one of the best companies to work in the UK and Ireland, according to a panel of academics, HR practitioners and business writers who selected GM UK and Ireland to appear in Britain's Top Employers - 2008,
In a quarterly forecast update of 18th April, PwC Automotive Institute's latest Analyst Note by US consultant Tsukas Watanable discusses how the rise in oil has accelerated segmentation shifts in the automotive industry and brought energy policy to the front
Fiat tops the sales-weighted 2007 European average emissions league at 137.3 g/km, and the top six manufacturers by sales volume now average below 150 g/km of CO2, according to research by JATO into volume-weighted average CO2 emissions for the ten
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced at Auto China 2008 in Bejing yesterday that that it is in the process of appointing new dealers in Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Ningbo. Rolls-Royce currently has showrooms in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
The European Parliament is reported to have asked for a 60 million annual research fund to pay for research into gasifying and liquefying coal to develop transport fuels, notably hydrogen. The money will come from a budget excess left over
Land Rover has won two Queen's Awards for Enterprise - for International Trade, for increasing export sales by 52% to nearly £4 billion a year, an increase of £1.3 billion in three years - and for Innovation for its patented
When a car is scrapped, 85% of it can now be recycled or re-used as per legal requirements, according to figures collated by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), issued to the media on Friday 18th April.
The German weekly Automobilwoche has reported that Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking earned about €60 million last year, six times the reported salary of Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, and excluding bonuses totalling €70m.
Delphi Corp. has announced changes in the leadership of two of its divisions. Ronald M. Pirtle is named president of Delphi Powertrain and president of the company's European operations. He succeeds Guy Hachey, who is leaving Delphi to join the
