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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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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I think someday we will make another stretch, the 787-10, for sure, because it is so compelling economically.
customers incredible year
Clearly, 2005 was an incredible year for our customers and for Boeing.
compelling someday
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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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.
technology fit lifestyle
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.
recovery past people
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 also solidified the transformation of our product line, and the market validated our strategy with every order during the year. Our new portfolio of airplanes from 100 to 450 seats, combined with our global support services, put us in a great position for the long term.
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We would be absolutely walking away from our commitments to our customers, ... They bought the airplanes and are counting on receiving the airplanes. There is no way we could recover.