Aqui teneis el articulo completo de la noticia, lo lei hace unos dias...pero no tenia ganas de deprimiros...
me parece muy triste, no se dodne puñetas lo lei, me parece que fue en la misma web... pero no lo encuentro, el Rick wagoner, decia, en el 93 lo hicimos mal con Saab, ellos mismos reconocieronque habian hehco una m*****, cuando compraron a Saab, venian de que no pudieron comprar Jaguar, se la quito Ford y lo que quedaba por comprar era Saab, asi que la compraron, pero cuando lo hicieron no sabian que hacer con la empresa, asi que ya veis, compran algo pero no saben pq...que panda de inutiles y ahora a tragar m*****.
"""General Motors is folding Saab's independent product development and manufacturing operations into Opel's, effectively creating a single European organization for the two GM brands.
The new structure grows out of Saab's emergency turnaround strategy, called Viggen.
"There will be much more cooperation and the two organizations will grow together," said Opel CEO Carl-Peter Forster. "Is it one organization? Things aren't that black and white. There will always be shades of gray. But the direction is clear."
Both Saab and Opel are deep into financial turnarounds. Opel's Project Olympia, launched in mid-2001, is aimed at restoring profits this year. Saab's Viggen plan, implemented in the fall, is modeled on Olympia.
Saab will eliminate about 1,300 jobs - 14 percent of its work force - after suffering a $132 million loss in the first half of 2002. Saab has an engineering staff of about 3,400 people at its assembly plant in Trollhatten, Sweden. About 450 will be cut by next summer, a spokesman said.
Combining Saab's autonomous engineering and production organizations with GM Europe will help bring down costs at the Swedish subsidiary, which sold just 120,000 cars last year.
"We will see a tremendous amount of collaboration," Forster said.
Reducing jobs
GM Europe engineering boss Hans Demant has added responsibility for Saab. GM Europe production chief Timothy Lee now oversees Saab's manufacturing operations as well as Opel's and Vauxhall's.
"There will be engineering benefits because they are reducing the headcount at Saab," Forster said. "Hans is looking at synergies and at joint development projects. For example, he will be working on setting up one electrical network."
GM Europe eventually will be structured similar to General Motors in North America, said outgoing GM Chairman Jack Smith in an interview in Detroit last week.
"What you'll see is what happened here," Smith said. "There'll be one organization. You'll converge it. There will be a Swedish (engineering) operation and an Opel operation. But in Sweden they will not just work on their stuff, they will also do work for Opel and vice versa. And the same with manufacturing."
In North America, GM has in the past decade combined division engineering staffs into a single corporate engineering staff.
Long overdue
Saab's structure is long overdue for a shakeup by GM, said John Lawson, automotive analyst for Schroder Salmon Smith Barney in London.
"I think they've had it with Saab frankly," he said. "They had to bite the bullet and recognize (that) the way Saab is organized it is not going to be successful."
Meanwhile, Saab CEO Peter Augustsson denied rumors that Saab has canceled new-model development projects as a result of Viggen.
"We haven't canceled any projects, but you do modifications in timing," Augustsson said, without elaborating.
Because of the launch of the new Vectra-based 9-3, Augustsson said, Saab would increase global sales from 120,000 in 2002 to about 135,000 this year.
He said Saab must sell 200,000 cars annually to reach "the right level" of profitability. He declined to say when he expected Saab to achieve annual sales of 200,000 vehicles."""""
ptra noticia de autonews... es de acceso restringido, pero yo me di de alta...
DETROIT - General Motors still expects to break even in Europe this year, despite the growing losses at its Saab brand, but it will be difficult to hit that goal, Mike Burns, head of the automaker's European operations, said on Monday.
"The plan is to get to break-even. We're not backing away from that. It won't be easy," Burns told reporters at the Detroit auto show on Monday.
Burns said GM's Opel and Vauxhall brands will return to profitability this year, but the Saab brand will offset that by losing money.
"There's absolutely an urgency to break even and go way past break-even. The likelihood is you're going to go well past break-even on Opel-Vauxhall and then Saab will lag that," he said.
Saab said in November it would cut 1,300 jobs, or about 20 percent of its staff. One GM official told Reuters earlier that Saab losses were expected to total about $500 million, when they are finally calculated.
But the remainder of GM Europe, which has cut its white-collar jobs by 10 percent each of the last two years, will trim fewer jobs this year, Burns said.
"The big cuts are done, with the exception of Saab," he said. Jobs could be cut another 5 to 6 percent this year through attrition and some early retirement and separation packages that were offered last year, he said.
The Swedish automaker, which has lost money nearly every year over the past decade, has been hurt more recently by the strength of the Swedish currency, which weakens its earnings from overseas. Saab has also lost money from investments in new vehicles.
GM Europe saw its market share in Western and Central Europe fall to 8.8 percent last year from 9.25 percent in 2001, due in part to weak sales in Opel's key market of Germany.
But the launch of some new vehicles in 2002 and 2003, including the Opel Vectra sedan and the Opel Meriva small car, will help grow market share above 9 percent, Burns said.
Burns said that the Meriva, the latest in a series of tall, boxy cars that feature more interior space, could have sales of about 200,000 annually once full production is reached. The Meriva was scheduled to start production in Spain on Monday.
GM Europe will also have more diesel engines, including the first co-developed from its joint venture with Fiat available this year.
=More fuel-efficient diesel engines account for about 40 percent of sales in Europe. But GM has lagged behind many of their European rivals in developing diesels, and they account for only about 35 percent of GM Europe vehicle sales.
"We're starting to get some traction," in sales, Burns said
Y por utlimo una noticia sobre Saab. Se esta negociando con Subaru para el uso de su plataforma y el motor Boxer, apra el 9-2
http://www.channel4.com/apps26/4car/jsp ... 11&id=4890
Saludos
Cuando una empresa dice pérdidas, el 120% de las veces es mentira. Y más mentira cuanto más grande sea la empresa.