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 Not many announcements can get Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon quite as excited as hearing that Ford Motor Co. will create 2,000 jobs at its Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo.
Ford (NYSE: F) plans to hire 900 people to form a third shift for F-150 production, which is expected to start sometime around August. Ford also plans to add about 1,100 employees to staff the production of the new Ford Transit commercial van, starting at the end of this year.
Nixon said news of the hiring should say something…
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 Ford Motor Co. will shut down a Transit commercial van production facility in the United Kingdom, but that won’t affect the upcoming launch of production for the U.S. version of the vehicle at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo.
Ford’s actions are solely an effort to remain profitable in Europe, spokesman Todd Nissen said.
The move in Europe isn’t because of a dip in Transit popularity — rather, it lets Ford (NYSE: F) realign its production capacity there to better fit with…
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 The all-new Ford Transit commercial van, set to be produced in Kansas City starting next year, has “big shoes to fill” but has been tried and proven around the world, a Ford Motor Co. executive said Tuesday.
“We’re bringing a new product to market, but we’re really not,” said Len Deluca, director of Ford Commercial Trucks.
He was in town because Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon presented Ford (NYSE: F) with the Governor’s Business Project of the Year Award for a $1.1 billion retooling project…
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 There’s been an aura of mystique around Ford Motor Co.’s all-new Transit commercial vehicle, which will be produced at its Kansas City Assembly Plant next year. But on Thursday, Ford (NYSE: F) unveiled the vehicle in Amsterdam, offering some details for the first time.
The Ford Transit eventually will replace the E-Series van in North America. It’s a full-sized model — much bigger than its European counterpart, the Transit Connect van.
Customers will be able to choose from a range of body…
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Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. hit a sales slump in July, and their Kansas City-made products brought mixed results.
Ford’s (NYSE: F) U.S. retail sales rose 2 percent in July compared with a year prior, which the company attributed to consumers’ appetite for fuel-efficient vehicles. But overall sales slipped 4 percent because the gain in retail sales couldn’t completely make up for a 16 percent dive in fleet sales.
The company’s F-Series pickups improved sales for the 12th-straight…
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 Ford Motor Co.’s Kansas City Assembly Plant is one of six plants that will take only one week of idle time during the summer, part of an effort to boost production.
Ford (NYSE: F) typically shuts down its manufacturing plants for about two weeks to let employees take vacations or to perform plant maintenance and retooling. But it wants to increase summer production by 40,000 vehicles as part of an overall plan to rev annual production capacity by 400,000 vehicles.
Ford’s contract with the United...
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Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and other automakers could reap rewards from the steep climb in fuel prices, Reuters reports.
The cost of filling a tank has consumers who own large or older vehicles looking for smaller, more fuel-efficient models — which automakers increasingly are offering, the report says, adding that auto sales rose 16 percent in February. That was the best showing in four years.
Both Ford (NYSE: F) and GM (NYSE: GM) run Kansas City-area assembly plants, and locally produced vehicles helped the automakers to sales gains last month.
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 Automobiles produced in the Kansas City area contributed to a boost in sales for both Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. in January.
The Escape, produced at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo., showed particularly strong January sales of 17,259, up 23.5 percent from the same month a year ago. The Escape and the Focus combined to provide 49 percent of the overall 7 percent gain in sales that Ford (NYSE: F) realized in January. Total sales at Ford were 136,710.
The F-150, also produced at the plant, was part of a 7...
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Ford Motor Co. enjoyed robust November sales of its Kansas City-made vehicles, but General Motors Co. numbers told a different story.
Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo makes the Ford Escape and the F-150 pickup. Escape posted some of the largest year-over-year gains in the entire Ford lineup, with sales rising 46.1 percent to 21,823 in November. Deliveries of F-Series trucks — which include the F-150 — rose 23.9 percent from last year.
Overall, Ford (NYSE: F) sold 166,865 vehicles in November, up 13...
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Ford Motor Co.’s tentative labor agreement with the United Auto Workers includes a $1.1 billion investment in Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant and more than 1,600 new jobs there, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said.
The investment is nearly three times larger than the $400 million that Ford (NYSE: F) said in January it would spend at the Kansas City plant.
The labor agreement is subject to ratification by UAW members.
“Today’s announcement is the culmination of more than two years of negotiations between my administration and Ford, and is a strong sign that Missouri will be a manufacturing state for generations to come,” Nixon said in a written statement...
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 Ford Motor Co. and General Motors saw sales of their Kansas City-made automobiles head in opposite directions last month, with Ford sales stepping on the gas while GM sales hit the brakes.
However, those results weren’t reflective of sales for the auto giants overall — sales for Ford (NYSE: F) rose 8.9 percent in September and 11.4 percent for the year to date, while GM sales jumped 19.6 percent in September and 16.1 percent for the year so far.
The Ford Escape was the big sales winner for Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo...
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![]() Ford Motor Co. reported Friday that June sales rose to 194,114 vehicles, up 14 percent from a year earlier.
In a release, the automaker (NYSE: F) said its car and utility models posted the largest increases, which Ford credited to consumer interest in vehicles that get better mileage.
“Strong demand for Ford’s fuel-efficient cars and crossovers continues, and we now are seeing truck buyers return to the market with significant appetite for our fuel-efficient V6 engines,” Ken Czubay, Ford’s vice president of...
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 Ford Motor Co. reported a first-quarter profit of $2.55 billion — its largest since 1998.
The number, which amounted to 61 cents a share, compares with $2.09 billion, or 50 cents a share, during the same quarter a year earlier.
Ford’s first-quarter revenue rose to $33.1 billion, up $5 billion from a year prior.
A consensus of analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial Network had expected the company to post earnings of 50 cents a share on revenue of $30.64 billion.
In a release, Ford (NYSE: F) attributed its improvement to a new line of fuel-efficient products, continued investment in global growth and the strengthening of its core...
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Ford Motor Co. earned $6.6 billion in 2010, its highest annual net income since 1999, the company announced Friday.
The full-year earnings were $3.8 billion higher than in 2009.
The results included fourth-quarter earnings of $190 million, following a $960 million charge related to the completion of a debt-conversion offer that reduced the company’s (NYSE: F) automotive debt by more than $1.9 billion. Earnings for the same quarter in 2009 were $696 million.
“Our 2010 results exceeded our expectations, accelerating our transition from fixing the business fundamentals to delivering profitable growth for all,” Ford CEO Alan Mullaly said in a...
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