GM invests $364M, adding 230 jobs in Marion, Ind.

Associated Press
10:08 PM CDT, October 19, 2009
MARION, Ind.
 
General Motors Co. says it’s investing $364 million in its Marion Metal Center in Indiana and will employ about 230 workers transferring from plants in Michigan and Ohio.
 
The automaker announced the expansion Monday. It says the plant already employs about [...]

October 20, 2009
http://detnews.com/article/20091020/OPINION01/910200319

Brand names key to automakers’ future

Monikers move young professionals more than quality

JOHN W. WAELTI
Every time the suits in Detroit make a decision, you swear they couldn’t be more clueless. Yet they’ve managed to outdo themselves again.
By deciding to eliminate its Saturn line, General Motors has shuttered two of its most youthful divisions, [...]

October 20, 2009
http://detnews.com/article/20091020/OPINION03/910200321

Europe’s politics hold up GM’s Opel sale

DANIEL HOWES
The Germans aren’t the only ones hoping to hurdle European Union objections to General Motors Co.’s plans to sell a majority stake in its Adam Opel GmbH unit.
GM is pushing to close "open issues" in a binding deal, perhaps as early as this week, that [...]