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Subject: Ford to close 14 plants


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Raoul Duke
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Date Posted: 11:50:57 01/23/06 Mon
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January 23, 2006

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By JASON ROBERSON and SARH WEBSTER

FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS

Ford Motor Co. on Monday morning announced its anxiously awaited Way Forward plan — an ambitious wide-ranging effort that will close 14 plants, including the Wixom plant in Michigan, lay off up to 30,000 workers, streamline the company’s product offerings and try to prepare the 103-year-old automaker for a promising, stable future.

Ford has more than 82,000 hourly workers in 18 assembly, eight stamping, and 17 powertrain and casting plants in North America. But with declining demand for its vehicles, that is far more than the Dearborn-based automaker needs.
Ford will idle the following facilities by2008:
- St. Louis Assembly
- Atlanta Assembly
- Wixom Assembly
- Batavia Transmission
- Windsor Casting (announced following Canadian Auto Workers contract negotiations
in 2005)
- Two additional assembly plants, which will be determined later this
year
This is the second restructuring to come under Bill Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, who founded the company, made Detroit an automotive landmark and left a proud legacy that the Ford family is determined to protect.

That prior revitalization plan, announced in January 2002, promised to close five plants, eliminate 35,000 jobs worldwide and bring 20 new or freshened products annually in the United States.

Bill Ford made that announcement just 10 weeks after taking over the CEO post from the ousted Jacques Nasser. At the time, he also said he regretted having to make the job cuts, which amounted to about 10% of Ford’s workforce.

Since then, Ford has been unable to keep its sales from falling in the competitive and critical U.S. market.

Sales declined by the double-digits in the U.S. for the Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and Jaguar brands and have increased only for the Volvo and Land Rover marquees. In the end, Ford lost 462,920 car and truck sales between 2002 and 2005. That decline, of 12.8%, represents enough sales to keep more than two assembly plants in operations.
Contact JASON ROBERSON at 313-222-8763 or jroberson@freepress.com.
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and the two "mystery" plants are....DayDecker17:13:38 01/23/06 Mon

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