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Ford Motor Company

By: Brenda Gonitzke













Ford Motor Company began a manufacturing revolution with its mass productions assembly line in the early 1900’s. Now the company is firmly entrenched in the status quo as the world’s largest pickup truck maker and the number two producer of cars and trucks, behind General Motors. It makes vehicles with such brands as Aston Martin, Ford, Jaguar, Lincoln, Mercury, and Volvo. Among its biggest successes are the Ford Taurus and F-Series pickup. Ford owns a controlling (33%) stake in Mazda and has purchased BMW’s Land Rover SUV operations. The finance subsidiary, Ford Motor Credit, is the United States number one auto finance company. It also owns Hertz, the world’s number one car rental firm. The Ford family owns about forty percent of the company’s voting stock. The Ford Motor Company was founded
by Henry Ford on June 16, 1903. This was his third company that he founded, but it was the only one that succeeded. Henry For...

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