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TRUCKS MARKETS * WORLDWIDE
* China - Design Chief Quits Changan Auto
Beijing,China -The WSJ/Auto Industry News (USA), by Norihiko Shirouzu -January 19, 2012: -- A notable Western-trained designer has resigned from Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. after a year, illustrating Chinese car makers' difficulties in recruiting and retaining talent as they try to create more-distinctive vehicles to better compete both at home and overseas... Ken Ma, formerly with General Motors Co., stepped down as Changan's global design chief, according to people familiar with the matter. It wasn't immediately clear why. The people said the Chinese-born Mr. Ma was weighing several options...
* China - Higher wages won't see foreign exodus
(Photo: Workers assemble Ford cars on the assembly line at Changan Ford, the joint venture between Chang'an Automobile -Group- Co Ltd and Ford Motor Co in Chongqing)
Beijing,China -China Daily, by Lan Lan -11 Jan 2012: ... A variety of US companies, including the iconic Ford Motor Co, have been reported to be considering bringing some manufacturing back to the United States... Because of an agreement struck with the United Auto Workers (UAW), a labor union, Ford has announced plans to shift 12,000 jobs back to the US from China, Mexico and Japan in four years... In recent contract talks with the United Auto Workers, the three carmakers agreed to increase the entry-level wage paid to autoworkers in the United States from about $14 an hour to about $19.28 over the course of a four-year labor contract... The salary for entry-level jobs in Guangzhou's automotive companies is about 1,800 yuan ($281) a month, roughly $1.70 an hour... * South Africa - Truck market may soften as rail recovers, but 12.3% growth forecast
Johanesburg,SA -Engineering News, by Irma Venter -18 January 2012: -- This year might see the start of softening extra-heavy truck sales in South Africa owing to activity in the rail sector, said UD Trucks Southern Africa (UDTSA) corporate planning and marketing, GM Rory Schulz, on Wednesday... Addressing the media in Johannesburg, he noted that projects by parastatal Transnet to procure new locomotives and to build a new coal line through Swaziland “could start impacting on sales in the extra-heavy commercial vehicle market”... Schulz noted that UDTSA still expected new truck sales in South Africa to jump by 12.3% in 2012, to reach 29 358 units... Truck sales numbered 26 149 units in 2011, again including an estimate on MBSA sales (for December)... The bus market was up 37.6% in 2011 over 2010, the extra-heavy truck market 35.4%, heavy trucks 5.69%, and medium commercial vehicles 15.3%...
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