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General Motors

By: Daulton Manning, Drew Klaus, and Michael Lu


General Motors
Description: Engages in the designing, manufacturing, and selling of cars, trucks and
automobile parts.

Company Owners: The company is owned by 3 major shareholders. Mary Barra, Mark
Reuss, and Dan Ammann

Products: Cars from the companies of Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC.

# of Employees: Over 91,000 employees

Corporate Headquarters Location: Detroit, Michigan

General Motors Mission Statement: To earn customers for life by building brands
that inspire passion and loyalty through not only breakthrough technologies but also by
serving and improving the communities in which we live and work around the world.
Strengths and Weaknesses of General Motors

Strengths: Weaknesses:
- General Motors has a lot of experience a - The General Motors company has a large
strong position within the American dependence on US consumers to generate
automotive industry. revenue
- Vehicles are safe for customers and the - General Motors mainly focuses on selling
environment. trucks and SUVs for growth
- Joint ventures with Chinese companies
which has allowed over 3 million sales in
China.
- Policies relating to sustainability and
environmental safety
Opportunities and Threats of General Motors

Opportunities: Threats:

- Rising gas prices are putting electric cars in - Competition in the Automotive industry is
higher demand increasing
- Electric cars are green and good for the - Electric Vehicles (Tesla)
environment - The value of the US dollar is decreasing
- People are looking for more sleek and - General Motors relies on US
good-looking cars customers
- Government regulations
- The US Automotive industry has the
possibility to decline over time.
Recommendations
General Motors should try to release more ads about their electric vehicles to keep
people interested in them. I say this because the last advertisement I saw for one
of their electric vehicles was during the super bowl. This means they haven’t really
been advertising recently so some people might not even know about the electric
vehicles being advertised.

Another thing they could try to do is find a way to make the cars cheaper because
while people will want an electric car, $40,000 and up is pretty pricey and many
people might no be able to afford that. They could even run a sale every once and
a while to keep people interested and buying their cars.

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