At the beginning of the 2009 Ford will suspend Car production in their Factory from Spain, Almussafes for 21 days. This is due to the Crisis and will affect the 5.177 people working there. They say that no one will be fired and there is no need to worry since Renault announced a similar thing.
Well, Ford wants to sell the Factory from Blanquefort, France that produces Automatic Gearboxes for Models delivered in Thailand, US and Australia. They`ll finish the current production in 2011 and they hope to finish the negotiations until March 2009.
The French Govern wanted to save the jobs of those 1600 workers from the factory and selling it is the best course of action. The new buyer wants to extend the Factory and thus to hire new workers. They didn`t said who the Buyer is.
Yes, It`s true. After the general crisis and the announcements made by ford America that they could close their gates forever, Ford Europe announced that they had a profit of $54.000.000 for the third quarter. This is quite a good announcement since a few days ago the same company said that the European auto industry will need around $40.000.000.000 to save it from collapse.
Ford loosed just 2.4% from the market and so they think that 2009 will be another year with some profit. We hope the best for them.