Potential Impact of Treasury’s Proposed Sale of GM Stock on Old GM’s Creditors
Did you or your company have an allowed claim in the General Motors bankruptcy case? If so, have you sold your allowed claim or the stock and warrants you received on account of your claim? If not, the...
View ArticleAdministration Announces Strategy for Protecting U.S. Trade Secrets
Theft of trade secrets by persons acting on behalf of foreign governments and corporations is a major problem for U.S. manufacturers, including manufacturers in the automotive industries. Spurred by...
View ArticleGeneral Motors New Terms and Conditions Effective July 15, 2013
General Motors has announced that Effective July 15, 2013, its general terms and conditions for direct material, customer care & aftersales (CCA) and tooling purchases are changing. The new terms...
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Shifting Gears: General Motors Invests in Logistics
General Motors’s (GM) new Arlington, Texas, stamping plant is the 10th contiguous stamping plant added to GM’s global operations in the last five years. And, there’s a reason for that. Actually there...
View ArticleAuto Suppliers Continue to Grapple with GM’s New Terms and Conditions
General Motors (“GM”) issued new general terms and conditions (“Terms”) for direct material, customer care & aftersales, and tooling purchases effective for requests for quotation issued on or...
View ArticleShift To Modular Platforms Raises New Issues for Manufacturers And Suppliers
One way in which next-generation manufacturing is impacting the automotive industry is the movement toward modular architecture. These designs use common underpinnings for various models across a...
View ArticleOESA Regional Meeting – Chicago Automotive Supplier Industry Update
Are you aware that General Motors (“GM”) issued new general terms and conditions (“Terms”) for direct material, customer care & aftersales, and tooling purchases effective for requests for...
View ArticleGM (Again) Revises Its Terms and Conditions, This Time in Response to...
In July 2013, GM rolled out major changes to its general terms and conditions for its contracts, imposing the most extensive changes for its suppliers in several decades. On this blog, we covered the...
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Wireless Technologies to Be Mandated by NHTSA
Foreshadowing the Autonomous Cars of the Future Recent months have seen major developments in the march toward truly autonomous cars. Google has announced that it has logged almost 700,000 miles of...
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NHTSA and GM Agree to Resolve Timeliness Claims Related to Ignition Switch...
Last week, NHTSA and GM announced an agreement to resolve recall timeliness claims related to GM’s massive Ignition Switch recall. In addition to the widely-reported $35 million civil penalty GM has...
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Suppliers to OEMs: We Think We're Turning Japanese
The 2014 Annual Automotive OEM-Supplier Relations Study came out in May 2014 and it showed that Japanese OEMs may be rebounding after a couple down years when it comes to their relationships with...
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Cadillac Moving to the Big Apple
General Motors’ Cadillac luxury car division, founded in Motown and named for the city’s founder, is moving 650 miles east to New York’s SoHo neighborhood. Cadillac, which has been steadily losing...
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Senate Commerce Committee Approves Nomination of Mark Rosekind to Head NHTSA
The Senate Commerce Committee approved the nomination of Dr. Mark R. Rosekind, on December 9, 2014, to become the next Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Full...
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What's Next for NHTSA and Automotive Safety?
This past year, we witnessed the GM Ignition Switch investigation, which involved massive recalls, multiple Congressional hearings, and civil penalties; the ongoing Takata airbag inflator...
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China Market Update
The Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA) recently presented on February 4th its annual China Market update webinar, and as usual a lot of great information was imparted to OESA members. The...
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NHTSA Seeks to Push Beyond the “New Normal” and into the “New Paradigm”
In recent years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has received increased public and Congressional scrutiny stemming from high-profile safety defects, such as the Toyota...
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