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Ford Motor Company

The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. In the past it has also produced heavy trucks, tractors and automotive components. Ford owns small stakes in Mazda of Japan and Aston Martin of the United Kingdom. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family, although they have minority ownership. It is described by Forbes as "the most important industrial company in the history of the United States."

Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines; by 1914 these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000 respectively, were sold to Tata Motors in March 2008. Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010. In 2011, Ford discontinued the Mercury brand, under which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938.

Ford is the second-largest U.S.-based automaker and the fifth-largest in the world based on 2010 vehicle sales. At the end of 2010, Ford was the fifth largest automaker in Europe. Ford is the eighth-ranked overall American-based company in the 2010 Fortune 500 list, based on global revenues in 2009 of $118.3 billion. In 2008, Ford produced 5.532 million automobiles, and employed about 213,000 employees at around 90 plants and facilities worldwide.

The Ford Motor Company also includes Volvo, Jaguar, Mercury , Lincoln , Land Rover , Mazda .Currently Ford is building plants in many countries, and make cars for different countries based on regional tastes . Currently offers two models of hybrid vehicle, the Focus C -Max and Ford Escape.

Beginnings

Ford began operations for the first time in 1903 with $ 28,000 12 investors. In its early years, Ford produced a few cars Alphabet by day its factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit , Michigan. Groups of two or three men worked with each car using components manufactured in other companies. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would continue to be one of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world today, as well as being one of the few companies that survived the Great Depression of the 30s.

In 1908, the Ford Motor Company launched the Ford Model T, the first of which was built at the Piquette Manufacturing Plant. The company moved production facilities to the Floor of Highland Park (larger than the previous one) in order to meet

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