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• Detroit Auto Show: Mini Boss Jim McDowell on the Mini Cooper's Success

  BNET - 2009-01-12

  In a disastrous automobile market, U.S. sales of the fuel-efficient Mini brand gained 29 percent in 2008 to a U.S. record 54,077 units. The U.S. overtook the U.K. as the brand’s biggest-selling single market in the world.That’s a development few people would have foreseen when parent company BMW first revived...

  Tags: U.S., Car, Brand, BMW AG, Mini Cooper, Scion, Branding, Marketing, Jim Henry

• No Worldwide Sales Record for BMW

  BNET - 2008-11-12

  Growing sales for BMW in China, Russia and India are not enough to offset the downturn in mature markets like the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, the company said. by Jim Henry

  Tags: BMW AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jim Henry, U.S.

• BMW Sales Grow Globally, But U.S. Market Heads South

  BNET - 2008-10-09

  Through the first three quarters, BMW sales in developing markets like China, Russia and India, plus higher sales for Mini and Rolls-Royce, were enough to offset lower U.S. sales. by Jim Henry

  Tags: U.S., BMW AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jim Henry

• U.S. Gas Prices Vindicate "Mr. Turbo": Four Cylinders are Enough

  BNET - 2008-09-01

  Fifteen or more years ago, Saab engineer Per Gillbrand used to say a four-cylinder engine with turbocharging was the best possible compromise between power and fuel efficency. When gasoline was cheaper than bottled water, most Americans didn't care. They do now. by Jim Henry

  Tags: BMW AG, Engine, Jim Henry, Management, Saab, Strategy, Turbo, U.S.

• Working the Unworkable Rule Established in Philip Morris: Acknowledging the Difference Between Actual and Potential Injury to Nonparties

  - 2007-09-01

  I. INTRODUCTION Over the past fifteen years, legal scholarship dedicated to the topic of punitive damages has increased significantly.1 This increase is principally due to United States Supreme Court decisions that changed the punitive damages landscape.2 Prior to these decisions, the individual states retained almost exclusive control of punitive damages...

  Tags: Auto, BMW AG, Campbell, conduct, Gore, Philip Morris USA, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., U.S., Williams

• BNET Daily Dispatch: Ford, Avaya, Toshiba, and U.S. Housing

  - 2007-05-29

  Ford plans to sell Volvo and BMW may be the buyer, according to Swedish newspaper Goteborgs Posten. The paper reports that BMW is in the process of studying the implications of a possible deal, and the Financial Times also reported that BMW is talks to buy the brand....

  Tags: Telephony, Branding, BMW AG, Ford Motor Co., Toshiba Corp., Avaya Inc., Brand, U.S., Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Networking, Andrew Hines

• Italians send Oracle packing, Spanish make Kiwis wait

  - 2007-05-20

  VALENCIA, Spain AFP — For the first time in Louis Vuitton Cup history there will be no American team in the final after Italy's Luna Rossa dumped out BMW Oracle Racing on Sunday with a match-winning fifth point in the semi-final. The Italians will face either Emirates Team New...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, BMW AG, Oracle Corp., Spain, team, U.S.

• OEMs show future at Intermot.(original equipment manufacturers)

  - 2006-11-13

  The global powersports industry showed countless trends at Intermot 2006, from niche markets and OEM offerings not found in the United States to the latest in technological innovations and a continued growth in vehicle suppliers from the Far East. Among the most obvious...

  Tags: BMW AG, Europe, FINANCE, Harley-Davidson Inc., Honda Motor Co., Investment, motorcycle, U.S., Yamaha Corp.

• BMW to produce X3 in Germany and United States

  - 2006-07-23

  BERLIN AFP — German luxury carmaker BMW will move the production of the X3-series four-wheel-drive vehicle to Germany and the United States in 2010. The weekly Automotive News Europe reported, in the edition to appear Monday, that production will no longer be entrusted to the Austrian company Magna Steyr...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, BMW AG, Germany, U.S.

• Magna announces fourth quarter and 2004 results.

  - 2005-03-01

  AURORA, Ontario, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG.SV.A, MG.MV.B; NYSE: MGA) today reported sales, profits and earnings per share for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2004. ...

  Tags: acquisition, asset, BMW AG, Company, concession, EBIT, engineering, Europe, financial, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., income, OEM, revenue, shareholder, U.S.