{"id":570761,"date":"2010-05-19T18:52:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T22:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=57210"},"modified":"2010-05-19T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T22:52:03","slug":"whitacre-thanks-employees-for-first-quarter-profit-says-there-is-still-more-work-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570761","title":{"rendered":"Whitacre thanks employees for first-quarter profit, says there is still more work to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 573px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GM Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre \" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/gm_ceo_whitacre_speech_main_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GM Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>General Motors&#8217; Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre has finally spoken about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2010\/05\/17\/back-in-black-gm-reports-first-quarterly-profit-in-3-years\/\">Detroit automaker&#8217;s first-quarter profit<\/a>&#8230; at least to his employees. In an e-mail sent to employees Monday, Whitacre thanked employees for their contribution and said that there is still more work to do to rebuild confidence among consumers and growing the business.<\/p>\n<p>In the e-mail, Whitacre told employees that the $865 million first-quarter profit was a sign of progress and that he hopes there will be additional profitable quarters moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still have more work ahead to rebuild consumer confidence and grow the business in an uncertain global economy,&#8221; Whitacre wrote.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-57210\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The e-mail also struck a positive tone for employees and executives who survived Whitacre&#8217;s wave of job cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good to know that we are moving forward,&#8221; Whitacre said. &#8220;I want to thank you for your hard work and dedication to General Motors. I appreciate your contributions&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Stephen Calogera<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20100519\/AUTO01\/5190432\/1148\/rss25#ixzz0oPzCo5nD\">Detroit News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ieGKo3uO-oqM3uRPBbR6FhY6hDU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ieGKo3uO-oqM3uRPBbR6FhY6hDU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ieGKo3uO-oqM3uRPBbR6FhY6hDU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ieGKo3uO-oqM3uRPBbR6FhY6hDU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=ypuxZznQr4M:-b-M8PVRVMA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=ypuxZznQr4M:-b-M8PVRVMA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=ypuxZznQr4M:-b-M8PVRVMA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=ypuxZznQr4M:-b-M8PVRVMA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=ypuxZznQr4M:-b-M8PVRVMA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=ypuxZznQr4M:-b-M8PVRVMA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=ypuxZznQr4M:-b-M8PVRVMA:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GM Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre General Motors&#8217; Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre has finally spoken about the Detroit automaker&#8217;s first-quarter profit&#8230; at least to his employees. In an e-mail sent to employees Monday, Whitacre thanked employees for their contribution and said that there is still more work to do to rebuild confidence among consumers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}