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GLG Topic: Tiered Automotive Industry

The Tiered Automotive Industry is the business sector encompassing the three-tier organization of parts manufacturers for the automotive supply chain. Tier-one suppliers produce products such as interior lighting packages, fuel-injection systems, and braking systems. Tier-two companies supply tier-one companies with basic parts such as gaskets, foams, and encasements for interior systems. Tier-three companies supply tier-two companies with processed raw materials and basic components.

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Leading Experts: Tiered Automotive Industry

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Wolfgang Rohroff, Consultant, Rohroff Car ConsultWolfgang Rohroff
Consultant
Rohroff Car Consult

Wolfgang Rohroff is currently an advisor to the automotive industry. He consults on M&A activity and tiered supply. He has extensive experience working with financial institutions, banks and automotive clients from Central and Eastern European. Prior to this role, he was with Volkswagen AG from 1970...

Michael Cain, President / Consultant, MFC ConsultingMichael Cain
President / Consultant
MFC Consulting

Michael Cain, President of MFC Consulting, serves the automotive industry working with some of the largest dealers in the country. Mr. Cain has more than 25 years of varied automotive industry experience developing marketing, sales and financial strategies. In addition, he has assisted dealers in...

Joseph Cappy
Chairman
Tulsa Community Foundation

Joe Cappy had 47 years of experience in the automotive industry before retiring as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group in December, 2003. Mr. Cappy was President & CEO of American Motors when Chrysler Corporation purchased the company from Renault and the Public in...

Dennis Profitt, Consultant, Dennis ProfittDennis Profitt
Consultant
Dennis Profitt

Dennis Profitt is an independent consultant in the automotive industry. Previously, he was President of C&A Plastics Division and led a 33 plant division. Earlier, he was Director of Manufacturing for Ford Motor, where he was responsible for the Rouge Site and Supplier Strategy for Vehicle Operations....

Michael Kowalski, Ph.D.
Consultant
Michael Kowalski

Michael Kowalski is currently a self-employed Consultant providing consulting services on the state of the automotive industry in general and on light vehicle brake system design with a particular emphasis in performance. Recently he has followed developments in the restructuring of the automotive industry...

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GLG NewsSM Analysis: Tiered Automotive Industry(?)

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Has A Massive Inflation Due To Commodity Prices Begun? Probably, Yes. | 05-15-2008
Analysis of: U.S. Supplier Plans Commodity Surcharge | www.just-auto.com
Author: Jack Lifton, Chief Executive Officer , Jack Lifton, LLC

The American OEM automotive industry bankrupted its supply base in the last decade by refusing to accept price increases for commodities and specialty metals caused by huge increases in the demand for them from Asia. The OEM American automotive industry then replaced its bankrupt suppliers by outsourcing...

Is Toyota's Prius Being Dumped On The US Market? | 04-03-2008
Analysis of: Jim Press: Prius was 100% subsidized by Japan | www.autonews.com
Author: Jack Lifton, Chief Executive Officer , Jack Lifton, LLC

It has always been a mystery to OEM American automotive industry financial analysts how Toyota could afford to build and sell the Prius, and any other hybrids, without seemingly taking into account the escalating costs of the nickel metal hydride battery, NiMH, packs due to the commodity metal...

The 'China Price' Upon Which GM's (And Ford's(?)) Future Survival Depends Is Rapidly and Foreseeably Growing Too Expensive For GM To Manage | 04-09-2008
Analysis of: The Last Days of Cheap Chinese | www.slate.com
Author: Jack Lifton, Chief Executive Officer , Jack Lifton, LLC

GM's short sighted purchasing management, and probably Ford's as well, pinned its hopes for being able to make a profit primarily on reducing its costs of labor and materials by shifting as much as possible of its parts production to the People's republic of China. Just 3 years ago, in 2005, GM's global...

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