Alan Mulally
Alan Mulally
Alan Roger Mulallyis an American engineer, business executive, and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ford Motor Company. He retired from Ford Motor Company on July 1, 2014. Ford had been struggling during the late-2000s recession, returned to profitability under Mulally, and was the only American major car manufacturer to avoid a bailout fund provided by the government. Mulally's achievements at Ford are chronicled in the book, An American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth4 August 1945
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We believe this settlement provides what IAM-represented employees say they want in this contract, where they want it.
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I feel very good about our production rate increase plan. It reflects all our lesson learned from the past. We have a very disciplined commitment and compliance process. ... We decided three times not to increase production rates faster. That's why we are not making up those 30 planes until we are absolutely on our way to making these rates changes, and then we will look later about going up even higher.
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Clearly, 2005 was an incredible year for our customers and for Boeing.
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I think someday we will make another stretch, the 787- 10, for sure, because it is so compelling economically.
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Clearly a strike would be devasting to the Boeing company and everybody associated with the Boeing company.
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Having barely moved off their original positions, union negotiators were demanding more than $1 billion more than what was in our best and final offer,
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Orders will be only 30 to 40 percent of last year's (level), and we see them leveling out next year but are cautiously optimistic that they will come back in 2001,
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I think someday we will make another stretch, the 787-10, for sure, because it is so compelling economically.
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The orders this year are ... an endorsement by the airlines of the world. What's being validated here is the Boeing Commercial Airplanes strategy for the last six years. That's the incredible story of 2005.
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An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.
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The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.
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We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.
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Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.
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We remain committed to the 747X family of airplanes despite Singapore Airlines' announcement today,