Ford Motor Co.

Internal restructuring: Ford Motor cuts 20% of the workforce of its division Ford Motor Credit.: United States of America

Internal restructuring: Ford Motor hardens its restructuring plan of its subsidiary Volvo Cars, Belgium and Sweden.:

Internal restructuring: Ford Australia cuts 15 percent of its Australian manufacturing work force, due to a slump in sales of large cars.: Australia

Internal restructuring: Ford Motor will cut expenses for its white-collar work force by 15 percent over the next two months through job cuts, attrition and other actions. Ford has about 24,300 salaried workers in North America.: United States of America

Internal restructuring: Ford Motor Co will eliminate shifts at four U.S. plants and lay off some 2,500 workers -- or almost 5 percent of its remaining work force -- as part of an effort to cut costs and return to profitability next year.: United States of America

Internal restructuring: Ford closes its factory of Leamington (center of England) in July 2007.: United Kingdom

Internal restructuring: Ford Motor Credit Co. will eliminate about 2,000 salaried jobs in the U.S. and Canada and close its remaining 59 U.S. branch offices by the end of 2007. The jobs will be cut through attrition, early retirements, incentives and firings. Profit at the finance unit dropped to $441 million in the second quarter, from $740 million in the year-ago period.: United States of America

Internal restructuring: Ford will cut North American salary costs by another 10 percent to 30 percent.: United States of America

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Closure/Bankruptcy: Ford will cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs and close 14 facilities by 2012 as part of a restructuring designed to reverse a $1.6 billion loss last year in its North American operations. The cuts represent 20 percent to 25 percent of Ford's North American work force of 122,000 people. Plants to be idled through 2008 include the St. Louis, Atlanta and Michigan's Wixom assembly plants and Batavia Transmission in Ohio. Windsor Casting in Ontario also will be idled, as was previously announced following contract negotiations with the Canadian Auto Workers. Another two assembly plants to be idled will be determined later this year, and production at St. Thomas Assembly in Ontario will be reduced to one shift. A total of 14 facilities, including seven assembly plants, will cease production by 2012.: United States of America

Plan de réduction des coûts salariaux de 10% aux Etats-Unis en 2006.: United States of America

Internal restructuring: France

Internal restructuring: Programme de réduction des coûts chez Volvo Cars: Sweden

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Internal restructuring: Announced the closure of the Jaguar Browns Lane plant in Coventry. The company will seek 400 voluntary redundancies. About 425 manufacturing jobs will be transferred to Castle Bromwich near Birmingham and 300 jobs created at Ford's luxury sports car maker Aston Martin at Gaydon, Warwickshire. However, 750 white-collar jobs will be lost across the Jaguar group. Joe Greenwell, Jaguar's chairman and chief executive, said the restructuring had been forced on the company by large and continuing losses.: United Kingdom

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