Re: blicke zwei Etagen höher

verfasst von Ghandi, 26.10.2002, 19:28

-->AMZN ist eine prominente no profit corporation, hat aber
letztlich nur die Bedeutung einer mittelprächtigen Schießbude.

Richtig gruselige Alpträume erleben wir bei den ganz Großen im
Lichte ihrer aktuellen Verkaufszahlen & ihrer Verschuldung in
Relation zum nun schrumpfenden Umsatz.

Beispiele:

Ford
_____________
A) geplanter Umsatz 2002 bisher: 130 Mrd
B) Verschuldung: 162 Mrd


GM
_________________
A) 156 Mrd
B) 187 Mrd


Die enormen Löcher in ihren Pensionskassen dürften bekannt sein (GM fehlen über 20 Mrd).

Und dann DIESE Verkaufsprognose:


U.S. Oct. Auto Sales May Fall 27% as Discount Loans Lose Allure
By Bill Koenig

Detroit, Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. auto sales may fall 27 percent this month from a year-earlier record month as no-interest loans draw fewer customers into dealerships and Asian automakers regroup after a West Coast port shutdown.

Sales may slide 36 percent at General Motors Corp., 31 percent at Ford Motor Co. and 22 percent at DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler unit, according to a forecast by Luckey Consulting Group Inc. October 2001 was the first full month that U.S.-based automakers offered interest-free loans to revive demand after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Automakers report sales on Nov. 1.

``Incentives are having less and less of an effect,'' said Michael Luckey, president of the Kinnelon, New Jersey-based automotive research firm. ``The industry's challenge will be to come up with something new and exciting without costing more.''

General Motors, the world's largest automaker, kicked off no- cost financing offers last year and rivals followed, leading to a record annualized sales rate of 21.3 million vehicles for October 2001. Luckey projects this month's rate at 15.6 million, less than September's 16.3 million and the lowest since May.

J.D. Powers & Associates market-research company forecasts that U.S. October sales will fall 25 percent to 1.3 million cars and light trucks. Incentives now average about $1,200 a vehicle, down from $1,480 in late August, J.D. Power said last week. Other analysts will release their projections next week.

Loan Reliance

``October does not look like a barn-burner month,'' Ford Chief Executive Officer William Clay Ford Jr. told investors in New York on Wednesday. ``We don't know if it's an aberration, if it's a seasonal thing or a real softening.''

Detroit-based General Motors fell 9 cents to $35.54 Friday in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Dearborn, Michigan- based Ford slid 14 cents to $8.72. Stuttgart, Germany-based DaimlerChrysler's U.S. shares rose 21 cents to $35.80.

Automakers have had difficulty ending no-interest loans. General Motors stopped offering the financing loans last month on remaining 2002 models and its sales dropped 13 percent. The automaker restored the discount loans after Ford and Chrysler left the offers in place and their September sales rose.

Pulling back on no-interest loans ``did not work as well as I hoped, so we are back to being aggressive,'' said General Motors Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner in an interview earlier this month in New York.

Port Lockout

General Motors' most recent incentive plan expanded no- interest loan offers and the automaker is selling cars and trucks with no money down and no payments for 90 days, which it markets under the ``Zero, Zero, Zero'' name. The plan runs through this month.

``Apparently it's not doing a whole lot'' to increase sales, Luckey said of the program.

A lockout of union dockworkers on the U.S. West Coast contributed to lower auto sales, disrupting some North American businesses of Asia-based automakers including Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Nissan Motor Co.

Toyota said it may deliver about 50,000 fewer Toyota and Lexus cars and light trucks to dealers this month because of delays from the port lockout. Nissan also reduced its October U.S. sales forecast 10 percent. President George W. Bush ended the lockout, using the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to open 29 ports.

The following projections from Luckey Consulting Group are for sales of cars and light trucks.

*T Company October October Percent

2002 2001 Change*

GM 365,000 544,864 -35.5

Ford 285,000 399,393 -31.3

Chrysler 170,000 209,478 -21.9

Honda 73,000 75,062 -6.3

Toyota 87,000 102,734 -18.5

Nissan 39,000 43,904 -14.5

Others 53,000 68,268 -25.2

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    • Re: blicke zwei Etagen höher - Ghandi, 26.10.2002, 19:28
      • As the saying goes: 'What's good for GM is good for America' (owT) - Popeye, 26.10.2002, 19:40