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
deal expecting extremely great quarter uglier ugly
I was expecting an extremely ugly quarter but this was a great deal uglier than I'd thought.
capacity extremely half hard job
I think they're doing half of the job extremely well; that half is capacity and costs. That half of the job that's hard to tell is the new models.
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,
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We did not play great but the main thing is that we won,
percent praise share
You have to praise their sense of realism, that they'll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive.
benefit cash earnings neither penalty
You have an earnings penalty and a cash benefit, neither of which is overwhelming.
good increase last light looking october overall percent sales truck versus year
With GM, I think overall you'll be looking at a 9 percent increase in October this year versus October last year in GM's light truck sales, and I think that their SUV sales will show an increase at least that big year over year. That's the good news.
agreed company conclusion union
To me it was a foregone conclusion because the union and the company had already agreed to it.
deal health losing market people several
While the (health-care) deal is a positive, they have several other challenges. They are losing too much market share. They have too many plants, too many people and too many models.
book gm starter talking trucks
What GM is talking about in my book are not hybrids. These are trucks with humongous starter motors.
attack beyond both continue costs ford largest legacy purchased single
Both Ford and G.M. are saddled with these legacy costs that they're negotiating with the union. Beyond that, there isn't much they can do but continue to attack their single largest cost: purchased materials.
against confidence result
We can take some confidence from the result against Azerbaijan.
bankruptcy buy gotten resources stock
I don't buy the bankruptcy talk. I think they have the resources to get through this. The stock has gotten so banged up, it could be an interesting speculation play. But I'm not going to try it myself.
initial move phase reaction simplify took
My initial reaction was, 'What took them so long?' ... They had too many brands, too many fiefdoms, and they had to simplify it. Even after they phase out Oldsmobile, they'll have too many, but I don't see them making another move for the foreseeable future.