General Motors

General Motors Company

The GM Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan.
Type	Public
Traded as	: GM S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Automotive
Founded	September 16, 1908; 108 years ago (1908-09-16) (as General Motors Corporation) August 11, 2009; 7 years ago (2009-08-11) (as General Motors Company)
Founder	William C. Durant Charles Stewart Mott Frederic L. Smith
Headquarters	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Number of locations	396 facilities on six continents
Area served	Worldwide (except North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria)
Key people	Mary Barra (Chairman and CEO) Dan Ammann (President)
Products	Automobiles Automobile parts Commercial vehicles
Production output	9,958,000 vehicles (2015)
Services	Vehicle financing
Revenue	US$166.3 billion (2016)
Operating income	US$9.545 billion (2016)
Net income	US$9.427 billion (2016)
Total assets	US$221.6 billion (2016)
Total equity	US$43.83 billion (2016)
Number of employees	215,000 (2016)
Divisions	Buick Chevrolet Cadillac GMC
Subsidiaries	List Transportation Jie Fang Opel OPC Holden HSV Wuling Baojun Vauxhall VXR Financial Services GM Financial Others logistics: GM Goodwrench industrial: ACDelco DMAX GM Components Holdings International: General Motors América do Sul General Motors do Brasil GM Colmotores (Colombia) General Motors Canada CAMI Automotive General Motors China General Motors de Mexico General Motors India CSIPL GM Korea Company Chevrolet Europe GM Vietnam GM Uzbekistan GM Egypt General Motors South Africa General Motors Japan Opel Group
Website	www.gm.com/index.html
Footnotes / references

General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services. With global headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, United States, GM manufactures cars and trucks in 35 countries. In 2008, 8.35 million GM cars and trucks were sold globally under various brands. Current auto brands are Vauxhall, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Opel, and Wuling. Former GM automotive brands include McLaughlin, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Hummer, Saab, and Saturn.

The company was founded by William C. Durant on September 16, 1908 as a holding company. The company was the largest automobile manufacturer from 1931 until 2005, and again in 2011.

In addition to brands selling assembled vehicles, GM also has had various automotive-component and non-automotive brands, many of which it divested in the 1980s through 2000s. These have included Euclid and Terex (earthmoving/construction/mining equipment & vehicles); Electro-Motive Diesel (locomotive, marine, and industrial diesel engines); Detroit Diesel (automotive and industrial diesel engines); Allison (Aircraft engines,transmissions, gas turbine engines); Frigidaire (Appliances including refrigeration and air conditioning); New Departure (bearings); Delco Electronics and ACDelco (electrical and electronic components); GMAC (finance); General Aviation and North American Aviation (airplanes); GM Defense (military vehicles) and Electronic Data Systems (information technology).