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
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With their sharp decline in market share, they have frankly got too much capacity, too many plants, too many people to be profitable in North America.
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I hate to disappoint the people who want to panic, but this is strictly housekeeping. I would think with all these things cleared up, it may clear out some small hurdles that otherwise might have gotten in the way of a sale.
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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.
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People think highly of Henderson, but I'm sorry that Devine is leaving. He tells it like it is, and he's a known quantity.
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These are things they've got to do, but there's a lot more. They've got too many models, too many people and too many plants for the amount of business they're doing now.
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This is really more a matter of Mark Fields wanting to get his own people in place.
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His departure is not going to make or break the company, but the cumulative loss of the top people from Chrysler is a significant drag, although it's hard to quantify,
disappoint hate list panic people
It's a list of housekeeping items. I hate to disappoint the people who want to panic over all this.
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The fight between Delphi and the union is scaring people about a strike shutting down GM. There's been a lot of piling on GM in the media, too.
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The job cuts will ultimately generate considerable cost savings if GM is smart enough to fire the right people and keep the right ones.
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I think it's reasonable to give the new management time to look over the details, though I don't know how Ford's plans are going to change.
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It goes to the 'equality of sacrifice' principle embraced by the union. It may make it easier for GM to get concessions from the rank and file.
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I think they will cut the dividend today. They should say something about the dividend one way or the other. Financially, GM shouldn't be paying any dividends at all.
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I think there will be a strike, but a short one. But any Delphi strike would shut down GM totally in a matter of days.