David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
less operation
Hertz has become kind of a noncore operation for them, a much less important outlet.
ceos company dependent guy half laid looks pay performance reasonable relative
Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off.
percent praise share
You have to praise their sense of realism, that they'll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive.
benefit cash earnings neither penalty
You have an earnings penalty and a cash benefit, neither of which is overwhelming.
good increase last light looking october overall percent sales truck versus year
With GM, I think overall you'll be looking at a 9 percent increase in October this year versus October last year in GM's light truck sales, and I think that their SUV sales will show an increase at least that big year over year. That's the good news.
deal health losing market people several
While the (health-care) deal is a positive, they have several other challenges. They are losing too much market share. They have too many plants, too many people and too many models.
attack beyond both continue costs ford largest legacy purchased single
Both Ford and G.M. are saddled with these legacy costs that they're negotiating with the union. Beyond that, there isn't much they can do but continue to attack their single largest cost: purchased materials.
book gm starter talking trucks
What GM is talking about in my book are not hybrids. These are trucks with humongous starter motors.
billion guess profits reduce strike
My guess the strike will reduce profits by well over a billion dollars.
cause chrysler likes market obviously
Obviously the market likes the Chrysler deal, ... But this doesn't have to cause a cascade of other mergers.
initial move phase reaction simplify took
My initial reaction was, 'What took them so long?' ... They had too many brands, too many fiefdoms, and they had to simplify it. Even after they phase out Oldsmobile, they'll have too many, but I don't see them making another move for the foreseeable future.
engine gm terms work
On paper, it could make GM more efficient, but what may work in terms of an engine may not work in terms of styling,
gm program
One of the necessities of the restructuring program is to downsize. GM has too many plants, too many people, and too many models.
finding interested quarter surprised third
I would be surprised if they show a third quarter that's better than my numbers, and I'd be interested in finding out why.