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General Motors Company
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Formerly
| General Motors Corporation
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Company type
| Public
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ISIN
| US37045V1008
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Industry
| Automotive
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Founded
| - September 16, 1908
; 115 years ago
(
1908-09-16
)
[1]
(original company)
- July 10, 2009
(
2009-07-10
)
(present company)
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Founders
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Headquarters
| Renaissance Center
,
,
United States
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Number of locations
| 396 facilities on six continents
[2]
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Area served
| Worldwide
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Key people
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Products
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Production output
| 5,939,000 vehicles (sales, 2022)
[2]
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Services
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Revenue
| US$
156.74 billion
(2022)
[2]
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| US$10.32 billion (2022)
[2]
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| US$9.71 billion (2022)
[2]
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Total assets
| US$264.04 billion (2022)
[2]
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Total equity
| US$71.93 billion (2022)
[2]
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Number of employees
| 167,000 (December 2022)
[2]
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Divisions
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Subsidiaries
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- Transportation
Financial services
Others
Logistics:
Industrial:
International:
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Website
| gm.com
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Footnotes / references
[2]
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General Motors Company
is the largest American
car
company. It is based in the Renaissance Center in
Detroit
,
Michigan
. It was founded in 1908 by a man named William Durant. It makes cars and
trucks
in 31 countries. About 209,000 people work for it. It is the second largest car company in the
world
, after Toyota.
In the 1950s and 1960s, it dominated the car industry, but it fell into decline by the 1980s and 90s. The company went through a bankruptcy in 2009 and was bought by the US Government, which has been selling its stake in the company.
As of April 2014, GM is being investigated by the
United States Congress
over the deaths of 13 people involving faulty ignition systems that have been used in many GM cars, with some built as early as 1997.
[3]
[4]
In May 2014 the company was fined $35 million from
NHTSA
over the ignition problem.
[5]
GM has many brands, including:
In the past, General Motors has used other brands, including
Oldsmobile
,
Pontiac
,
Saturn
,
Hummer
,
Geo
, and
Daewoo
, but none of these are produced by GM as of 2014. They either have gone out of business or were merged into Chevrolet. GM also owned Saab from 1989 to 2010, and also held stakes in
Isuzu
and
Suzuki
until 2008. In 2017 they sold
Opel
and
Vauxhall Motors
to
Groupe PSA
.
Holden
gone defunct in 2020.