Word: gm
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Before the new General Motors Corp. envisioned by the Obama Administration can take wing, the remains of the old GM will have to be buried...
...part of its effort to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, GM has named Al Koch, a partner in J. Alix & Associates, a Detroit-based turnaround firm, to serve as chief restructuring officer. Koch, who has served as the undertaker for dozens of other firms over the years, including Kmart, will be responsible for laying to rest what is already being quaintly referred to as the old GM and what will no doubt be a mountain of liabilities. (See pictures of GM factory-scapes...
...GM chief executive officer Fritz Henderson says Koch will work with a small staff to dispose of the pieces dumped into the "old" bin, including brands such as Hummer, Saab and Saturn. "He won't have anything to do with the operation of the new GM," says Henderson...
...task is expected to be formidable. Part of the job of the chief restructuring officer will be to dispose of real estate such as closed factories. GM assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich. and Wilmington, Del., as well as power-train plants in Livonia, Flint and Ypsilanti Township, Mich., Parma, Ohio, and Fredericksburg, Va., were just added to the list. The automaker also is shutting underutilized stamping plants in Indianapolis and Mansfield, Ohio; and closing warehouses in Boston, Jacksonville, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, all by the end of this year. Workers at all nine plants and the three warehouses were told...
...real estate and any liability claims that go with the property will be assigned to the old GM. In addition, there is a long list of plants that GM has already shuttered in earlier waves of plant closings and downsizings that will go to the old GM's graveyard...