David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
business cars daily ford less outlet sales
Hertz has become less and less important as an outlet for Ford cars as Ford has pared back sales to Hertz and other daily rental companies. It's really a noncore business right now.
cars confidence consumer despite gm happening levels october stock
October was even better than I expected. Cars are cheaper, GM is back from the strike, and despite what's happening in the stock market, consumer confidence levels are high.
cars historical inherently passenger profitable
The passenger cars are not inherently as profitable as big SUVs or big pickups, but they have to refurbish their car line, even if it doesn't get them back to historical profit margins,
book cars earnings effect felt ford produce profits ship themselves
I think the effect has already been felt on Ford's earnings because Ford and the other automakers book themselves in profits when they produce and ship the cars to the dealers,
arteries boring cars design suffer turning
The domestics suffer from hardening of the arteries in their design departments and are turning out well-executed but boring cars and trucks.
dream incredible score true
It would be a dream come true to score and incredible to score the winner.
moment sweetest
It was the sweetest moment in my career,
break
isn't going to make or break the company.
california emissions insanity mainly market states vehicles worried
These are vehicles on the market mainly because of the insanity of regulators in states like California that are worried about emissions standards,
amount business people plants
These are things they've got to do, but there's a lot more. They've got too many models, too many people and too many plants for the amount of business they're doing now.
company relative size
These are small, insignificant adjustments relative to the size of the company.
america competition great north pricing running struggling
Everything was great in North America. But they were struggling elsewhere. I think that they're running into a lot of competition in pricing and product.
early heavy middle running sales strong
Sales were running down in the early part of the month. In the middle of the month, they launched heavy incentives, and had a very strong close.
continue damage large likely margins mix persist profit sales seems shift state
Sales of gas-inefficient large SUVs are in a state of near-collapse this month. It seems likely that the shift in the sales mix away from large SUVs will persist and continue to damage Detroit's profit margins in the process.