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Society of Automotive Analysts – New Board of Directors

Posted on 18 February 2025 by Ken Zino

The Society of Automotive Analysts (SAA) today announced its Board of Directors for 2025. Adam Bernard, Founder and Principal of AutoPerspectives, will serve as SAA president, while Jeff Schuster, President of Forecasting, GlobalData, moves into the vice president role. The SAA’s stated goals are to provide automotive professionals exclusive access to industry leaders, early insights and outstanding networking opportunities. “SAA members include every automotive industry professional interested in timely and useful auto industry data, discussion and dissemination of ideas, concepts and solutions,” the SAA said. Continue reading →

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Oh Canada – Magna Q3 Sales Off but Net Earnings Up

Posted on 1 November 2024 by Ken Zino

“We continue to mitigate industry headwinds including lower production volumes in each of our core regions. Our ongoing initiatives and results to date reinforce our conviction in our free cash flow outlook this year and beyond. As we continuously seek to optimize value creation, we are resuming share repurchases in the fourth quarter –ahead of our prior plan,” said Swamy Kotagiri, Magna’s Chief Executive Officer. Continue reading →

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Magna Results Reflect Turmoil in OE EV Programs

Posted on 2 August 2024 by Ken Zino

AutoInformed notes that Magna’s challenge as a global diversified supplier to automakers going forward is adopting to and making money from the delay, elimination or reduced volumes in larger automaker EV programs while retaining or increasing sales from the now extended life of vehicles  with internal combustion engines and their potential freshening and updates with increased content that this likely entails. Continue reading →

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