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Old 15-01-2019, 11:35 AM   #54
Dr Smith
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Default Re: Ford To Cut Thousands Of European Jobs, Close Factories In "Major Restructuring"

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Originally Posted by kevino View Post
Has been a good discussion.

Maybe FOA (former ceo Mark Field) let the regions outside the USA drift?

To lose a billion in Europe over 5 years suggest maybe changes should have been made earlier in Europe than June 2019..
They did send Geoff Polites there as a VP after his Oz posting however Fields suddenly sent him to JLR and profits returned before Tata bought it. I think if he hadn't of sadly died he may have stayed with JLR but he had the knack of selling cars that people wanted.
Our dog almost tripped him up once while he was jogging along the foreshore in bayside Melb...think he actually apologised..

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