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Blog Entries about "automotive oems"
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Black and Blue in the Bayou
Dr Peter Wells of Cardiff Business School's Centre for Automotive Industry Research (co-author of Car Futures - Rethinking the automotive industry beyond the American model”, available from Trend Tracker), speculated recently in Automotiveworld.com's Environment Weekly that BP's fiasco could prove a tipping point in the evolution of a market for electric vehicles. Market and public sentiment can turn bad on a dime, and BP's bonds have dropped to junk status, although with oil at $75 a barrel, BP is still gushing cash flow and can easily afford the $billion+ Gulf clean-up cost, and pay a dividend to its US shareholders.
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Wrong-Footed in Recession
Trend Tracker's associate Dr. Michael Wynn-Williams of Greenwich University Business School contributes some incisive thoughts on the state of the global car industry, reflecting at leisure on the variously effective and irrelevant ways that different automotive OEMs at the Geneva Motor Show were responding to the current dearth of demand. His overall impression of the show was that “this is an industry that is in almost complete denial.” See if you agree.
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Nineteenth Motor Trader Industry Awards 2009
Trend Tracker director, Chris Oakham, was amongst 830 people at the Motor Trader Industry Awards 2009 held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London yesterday evening, 8 July. The 19th Motor Trader Industry Awards celebrated the achievements of companies and individuals challenging the worst recession in the UK retail motor industry since the early 90s - and succeeding. Trend Tracker would like to add their congratulations to the winners of the 18 categories: