Holden Ford's Car Industry Analysis

Cars are luxury possessions for most and when it is a brand like Holden it is generally considered to be a prized luxury possession. But, for car owners it becomes a real tough decision to consider which one is the best buy when there is a need for a parts change, or when one seeks for a performance boost with an addition of an exhaust system up gradation. Like for example for Holden owners they can grab on to extensive benefits by availing Holden aftermarket and performance parts instead of going for new OEM parts from brand manufacturer itself.

Holden, subsidiary company of General Motors and an Australia automaker, was established in 1856. It is well known as one of the seventh fully operation of General Motors company to perform in the part of designing, building, and selling of vehicles not only in Australia, but also overseas. Holden Australia has their headquarters in Port Melbourne, Victoria and distributes their vehicles through more than 250 dealers and there is more than 42 types of cars models that Holden produce in order to support the domestic demand and international customer (Holden, 2015).

Innovative thinking, initiative, an ability to think outside the box, risk-taking and leadership could have possibly overcome the fatal situation of Holden Manufacturing Group. This could have been approached from two perspectives both stemming from reconsideration of Holden's manufacturing fundamentals and strategies.

The automotive industry is inherently interesting: it is massive, it is competitive, and it is expected to

The car manufacturing industry is a large enterprise and supplies employment for more than 45,000 people and indirectly employs nearly 200,000 (Cassin, 2013). However it is believed that the Australian government should not provide funds to the car manufactures, Australia cannot compete with the larger automotive manufacturing countries. The statistics of 2013 show that, 1.13 million cars were sold, out of that figure just over 100,000 were purchased locally made. This tells us that less than 10% of Australian’s actually bought an Australian manufactured car (Smith, 2014). If we aren’t going to buy them who will?

Fact #1: (Market Overview) in 2015, the Ford F-series was the best-selling model in the Canadian market. Second to that was Ram, and third was the Honda Civic. Following the top three was the GMC Sierra (New Cars in Canada, 2016)

1. Ford Motor Company engages in a number of business-level strategies. Three of the most important are where the company sells, where it produces, and what it produces. With respect to where Ford sells, it has chosen the strategy of being a global automobile company. The company outlines this strategy as a matrix with product strategy (what it produces). Ford's geographic/product strategy matrix is as follows. The company operates around the world, selling in almost every country. It has special focus on North America and China, but operates just about everywhere else as well. Ford divides the world into four regions North America (including Mexico and the Caribbean), South America, Europe, and Asia/Africa/Australia.

The Duster took the Indian market by storm. It fuelled the segment of compact SUVs and grabbed a 23 per cent market share within a year. The Duster's success was such that Renault had to triple production within months of its launch from seven per hour to 20 per hour.

Realistic: In NZ car industry is developing at a quick rapidity. There have been colossal demands for cars in NZ in the most recent couple of years because of change in economy of NZ this demand has expanded massively. The amount of cars being used today in NZ is 15 million. Around two-third of the cars demand is being met as of now by NZ’s creation

1To have a thriving and growing economy you have to have a strong manufacturing base that is outputting quality goods in large quantities. In the case of the United States much of the economy in the past has been built on housing sales and the automotive industry. America 's modern automotive industry is being hurt by two things: Unionized labor and cheaper imports from Asia. Why build cars in North America where unionized automotive wages are $20+/hour when you can build them in Asia for less than $4/hour and still get the same quality? And in some cases more quality, if you want to consider the amazing durability and reliability of cars

The automobile industry hired 16,851 employees, of which 6,101 and 5,800 were Proton’s and Perodua’s respectively. Meanwhile, the total employment created in support of the automobile industry (i.e. the manufacturing of automobile parts and components), in 2003, was estimated to be 23,391 (Mahidin U. and Kanageswary R. 2004).

From the table 1 of analysis, it can be observed that there were negative returns of automobile stocks before the implementation of GST as co-efficient of variable C is -0.003229. However, dummy variables suggest that there were significant positive returns 0.005923 in the automobile stocks p value 0.0031whuch is less than 0.05, so in that case, H1 has been accepted.

- Tata has entered into several acquisitions and joint ventures, which when combined offer a joint and diverse human capital across various departments such as R&D, marketing, sales and operations Tata’s management is strengthened by thecollective experience of its partners and acquired companies

The interview was conducted with former employee of Toyota, who was working there as Sales Manager. During interview following questions were asked

Today the automobile sector in India contributes 5% to the nation’s GDP, making it a prominent player in the economy. It will contribute around 19% of the Tax collection for financial year 2009-10. Following have been the features of Auto industry in the past financial year.