12 Facts About General Motors Company

1. General Motors Company has interests in entities through various regional subsidiaries, primarily in Asia.

2. General Motors Company, incorporated on August 11, 2009, designs, builds and sells cars, trucks, crossovers and automobile parts.

3. General Motors Company sells cars and trucks to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies and governments.

4. General Motors Company was concerned that Cadillac was being seen by consumers as an older, un-hip brand.

5. General Motors Company plans call for the opening of an assembly plant in late 1998 in Poland.

6. In 2009, GM had renamed itself as General Motors Company, creating its former appellation: General Motors Corporation.

7. General Motors Company announced massive layoffs and is closing five North American facilities as it transitions to self-driving, electric cars of the future.

8. General Motors Company said on Thursday that, starting next year, its current president, Dan Ammann, would take over as CEO of Cruise, an autonomous vehicle unit that GM acquired just two years ago, as the 100-year-old automaker looks to commercialize self-driving cars.

9. General Motors Company plans to cut more than 14,000 factory and white-collar jobs in all as it scales back production at the plants in the three states and Canada.

10. General Motors Company has publicly announced that it is committed to invest heavily in electric cars.

11. General Motors Company was formed on September 16, 1908, in Flint, Michigan, as a holding company controlled by William C Durant, owner of Buick.

12. General Motors Company operates a mobility division called Maven, which operates car-sharing services in the United States, and is studying alternatives to individual vehicle ownership.