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Susan Docherty, the GM marketing executive responsible for selling the company's Buick, Pontiac and GMC brands, also tried to strike a positive note: "If you look at the brands I'm responsible for, our business was up 10% the first five months of the year," Docherty said. "It's frustrating," notes Docherty, adding the recession is speeding up the shutdown of dealerships. "We've got 6,100 dealers and we're going to go down to 4,500," she says. (See pictures of autoworkers...
...Resizing the business will alter the number of nameplates that the Detroit Three market and the number of dealers that sell them. GM will sell or close Saturn. Pontiac and Saab could end up joining Oldsmobile and Plymouth in the hood-ornament graveyard because the cost of supporting a brand with a small market share doesn't make sense, nor does maintaining a dealership network created for an era when Chevy and Buick could support separate distribution systems. GM plans to reduce its dealer count 27%, to 4,700. "Certainly, having seven or eight brands for 25% of the market...
...diligent. They worked very hard, but it just hasn't worked." In Schrager's view, GM is a strategic failure. It can manufacture high-quality cars, but it neither makes the right kind nor markets them effectively. He'd bust the company up into three independent firms: Chevy, Buick-Pontiac-GMC and Cadillac-Saab-Saturn...
...always speak glowingly of Hunter S. Thompson. Could you describe how he impacted your writing? Michael R. Trevino PONTIAC, MICH...
...waging an underground campaign against the VEBA on the Internet for the past several weeks and it is having an impact. "I think it's a conflict of interest for the union to represent us and take care of our health care," said Tom Avery, a UAW retiree from Pontiac, Michigan who was helping out on the union's picket lines...