Here is an article from the Wall Street Journal today about Ford closing down their European operations as part of a major restructuring. What appears…
Month: October 2012
The Financial Times reports that France is poised to bail out Peugeot; meanwhile Ford will close its Belgian plant. This will impact suppliers, particularly Lear,…
Monday, The Financial Times reported on the bounce-back of the beer imports (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3f881722-1b73-11e2-ab87-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2AF8W1ifD). After the recession, sales of imported beers slumped, but saw a huge…
I decided to follow suit and post on the electric car industry. This article discusses the costly hybrid, lithium-ion batteries that run in electric cars,…
Toyota, seemingly unhurt from its 2009-2010 recall debacles, is still gaining US market share and pushing certain models to capture niche markets. As we talked…
Electric cars seem to many as the next frontier in the auto industry, not only is it easy to find an electric outlet, they also…
Going off Welch’s post: While many Chinese companies from a variety of industries have attempted to gain a foothold in America (consumer goods, real estate,…
We have talked about how the Big 3 auto firms have been losing market share to foreign companies for several decades, and that these foreign…
Apparently, barley and hops prices are rising drastically due to poor harvests. This Financial Times article implies that the big four breweries will not be…
This is an article published on mLive, a Michigan-specific news site, detailing a trend of carrying locally-produced craft beers among bars and restaurants in Kalamazoo. http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/10/kalamazoo_tap_wars_local_bars.html…