Joe Hinrichs, Ford Motor Company's president of the Americas, announces Thursday, May 2, 2013 that the company is adding 2,000 workers to the Claycomo, Mo. plant, where the the F-150 pickup is made, because of surging U.S. truck demand. The company plans to add a shift with 900 workers in the third quarter of this year to make pickups. That's in addition to the 1,100 workers Ford will hire to make the new Transit van. Those workers will start in the fourth quarter.
William Clay Ford Jr., (R) executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, speaks during his session titled "A Conversation with William Clay Ford JR." as interviewer John Casesa, senior managing director of Guggenheim Partners listens, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California April 30, 2013.
William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, has a conversation prior to his session titled "A Conversation with William Clay Ford JR." at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California April 30, 2013.
In an April 11, 2013 photo, Laurie Moses, salesperson at Suburban Ford in Waterford Township, Mich., poses on the showroom floor. Moses is the No. 1 salesperson for the Ford Motor Company. This past spring Moses learned she was named Ford Motor Company s No. 1 salesperson in the U.S. after selling 559 vehicles last year. She never won this honor in her years of selling. She s a machine, said Don Marotta, new car sales manager.
A Ford car is kept on display at a sales centre in Glendale, California, on April 7, 2009. US automaker Ford said on April 6 that it had slashed 9.9 billion dollars from a debt pile of 25.8 billion dollars under what it called a 'successful' debt restructuring exercise. The exercise is expected to lower annual interest expense by the company of more than 500 million dollars, Ford Motor Company said in a statement.
Alan Mulally, President and CEO Ford Motor Company speaks during the the first press preview day at the 2010 North American International Auto Show January 11, 2010 at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan.