Ed Whitacre built Southwestern Bell into telcom behemoth AT&T. He helped close the deal to sell Anheuser-Busch to InBev. Can he also sell a Chevy?

Advertising Age reports that General Motors Corp. Chairman Ed Whitacre plans to make a personal pitch…

John Dansby will become the new plant manager at General Motor Corp.’s Wentzville assembly plant, effective Oct. 1. He is currently manager at GM’s Pontiac (Mich.) assembly plant, which will close in the fourth quarter.

Dansby will replace the current manager…

BY MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
c.2009 New York Times News Service

The federal government said it would take over the pension plans of the Delphi Corp. at a cost of $6.6 billion Wednesday, after years of demanding that the assets of the company…

The top White House official in charge of helping cities recover from auto plant closures will be in the St. Louis region today, and he’s bringing $25 million with him.

At an event in Valley Park later this morning, Ed Montgomery,…

General Motors Corp. plans to cut 38 Missouri dealerships and 66 Illinois ones from its ranks, according to a list released today by a U.S. House subcommittee. It did not identify the names of individual dealerships.

The list gives the number…

General Motors Corp. plans to cut loose up to 450 more dealers, beyond the 1,124 dealerships it notified two weeks ago, trade publication Automotive News reported. It cited two sources familiar with GM’s strategy.

GM sales chief Mark LaNeve said the…

Further job cuts are on the way before June 1 at General Motors Corp., Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said this morning in a conference call with reporters.

“There will be futher reductions in manpower … but we don’t have those finalized…

A month after Chrysler warned the Canadian government that it would pull out of Canada unless it received aid, the automaker’s proposed partner has issued its own ultimatum, according to a report.

This warning came from Fiat SpA to union workers…

More than 30 local agencies are expected to visit General Motors Corp.’s van assembly plant in Wentzville Thursday, recruiting volunteers for their organizations.

To align inventory with lower demand, GM has halted production for several weeks at some of its assembly…

Throughout the first days of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, reporters and automakers have talked extensively about what the companies need to do to survive and the headway being made on the restructuring plans outlined by Congress. But…