Fiat plant in Melfi, Italy Alessia Pierdomenico | Getty Images Europe’s major car and parts makers rushed on Wednesday to close factories and cut output in Italy and considered sending workers home elsewhere, in the first signs that coronavirus is disrupting the region’s struggling automotive industry. Fiat Chrysler said it was temporarily halting operations at… Continue reading Europe’s auto industry shuts factories, cuts output as virus hits – CNBC
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UPDATE 1-Ford takes aim at Jeep with new Bronco SUVs
DETROIT (Reuters) – Nearly 55 years after the debut of the original Ford Bronco — and 24 years after the demise of the last one — Ford Motor Co. (F.N) is dusting off one of its treasured nameplates this spring in hopes of reviving a decades-old rivalry with Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s (FCHA.MI) popular Jeep brand.… Continue reading UPDATE 1-Ford takes aim at Jeep with new Bronco SUVs
Fiat Chrysler worker in Indiana has coronavirus, production continues
A Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV employee at a transmission plant in Indiana has tested positive for the coronavirus, but production will continue as normal, the automaker said Thursday. The Kokomo Transmission Plant employee is the first known person in the United States employed by one of Detroit’s three automakers to test positive for COVID-19, according… Continue reading Fiat Chrysler worker in Indiana has coronavirus, production continues
Fiat Chrysler worker tests positive for COVID-19 in Indiana; plant remains open
(Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) (FCHA.MI) said Thursday an employee had tested positive for COVID-19 at its Kokomo, Indiana, transmission plant but the location will remain open, raising the specter of U.S. shutdowns hitting the industry. The Italian-American automaker said the employee was receiving medical care and his immediate co-workers and others he… Continue reading Fiat Chrysler worker tests positive for COVID-19 in Indiana; plant remains open
Ford takes aim at Jeep with new Bronco SUVs
DETROIT (Reuters) – Nearly 55 years after the debut of the original Ford Bronco — and 24 years after the demise of the last one — Ford Motor Co. (F.N) is dusting off one of its treasured nameplates this spring in hopes of reviving a decades-old rivalry with Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s (FCHA.MI) popular Jeep brand.… Continue reading Ford takes aim at Jeep with new Bronco SUVs
UPDATE 2-Fiat Chrysler worker tests positive for COVID-19 in Indiana; plant remains open
(Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) (FCHA.MI) said Thursday an employee had tested positive for COVID-19 at its Kokomo, Indiana, transmission plant but the location will remain open, raising the specter of U.S. shutdowns hitting the industry. The Italian-American automaker said the employee was receiving medical care and his immediate co-workers and others he… Continue reading UPDATE 2-Fiat Chrysler worker tests positive for COVID-19 in Indiana; plant remains open
UPDATE 1-Fiat Chrysler worker tests positive for COVID-19 in Indiana; plant will remain open
(Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCHA.MI) said Thursday that an employee has tested positive for COVID-19 at its Kokomo, Indiana transmission plant, but the location will remain open. The Italian-American automaker said the company placed the employee and his immediate co-workers and others he may have come into direct contact with in home quarantine.… Continue reading UPDATE 1-Fiat Chrysler worker tests positive for COVID-19 in Indiana; plant will remain open
Fiat Chrysler idling Italian plants as coronavirus outbreak intensifies
A Jeep Renegade rolls down an assembly line at Fiat Chrysler’s Melfi assembly plant in Italy in 2015. Michael Wayland / CNBC Fiat Chrysler said Wednesday that it will “intensify measures” against the spread of the coronavirus in Italy, including temporarily closing plants there, where the government has implemented a national quarantine. The shutdowns are… Continue reading Fiat Chrysler idling Italian plants as coronavirus outbreak intensifies
Fiat Chrysler shuts down Italy plants to prevent coronavirus spread
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV on Wednesday said it is temporarily halting production at four Italian plants, two of which produce vehicles for the United States, to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The measures come in support of expanded government directives this week in Italy, whose 10,000 infections is the largest outside of China, where the… Continue reading Fiat Chrysler shuts down Italy plants to prevent coronavirus spread
@Groupe PSA: Groupe PSA: Louis Gallois Will Continue to Serve as Chairman of the Peugeot S.A. Supervisory Board
RUEIL-MALMAISON, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Further to the signing of the Combination Agreement between Groupe PSA (Paris:UG) and FCA on December 17, 2019, and in order to ensure continuity until the closing of the merger between the two companies, Louis Gallois has agreed, with the Supervisory Board members, that he will continue to serve as Chairman… Continue reading @Groupe PSA: Groupe PSA: Louis Gallois Will Continue to Serve as Chairman of the Peugeot S.A. Supervisory Board