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The Premier Automotive Group was formed in 1999 under then-CEO Jacques Nasser and grew to include the Lincoln, Mercury, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo brands. Forbes estimated that, by 2004, Ford had spent $17 billion building on acquisitions to form PAG. [2] In 2002, Lincoln and Mercury returned to Ford's direct control.
Premier Ltd [4] (formerly known as The Premier Automobiles Limited) [5] was an Indian automotive manufacturer company, based in Mumbai. [6] The company was owned by the Walchand Group and was established by Walchand Hirachand as Premier Automobiles Ltd (PAL) in 1944 with the encouragement and support of Sir. M. Visvesvaraya.
In 2002, Fields became chairman and CEO of the Premier Automotive Group, Ford's luxury unit, which at the time included Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo Cars. He then was named executive vice president, Ford of Europe and Premier Automotive Group, where he led all activities for Ford's premium vehicle business group and for Ford brand ...
The division was placed within Ford's Premier Automotive Group alongside Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin. Volvo engineering resources and components would be used in various Ford, Land Rover and Aston Martin products, with the second generation Land Rover Freelander designed on the same platform as the second generation Volvo S80.
Volvo's safety systems remained standard on all Volvo vehicles while under ownership of Ford Motor Company. Volvo had patented many of its safety innovations, including SIPS, WHIPS, ROPS, DSTC, and body structures. Some of these systems were fitted to other Ford and Premier Automotive Group vehicles in forms similar to those of Volvo systems.
President of Non-Automotive – Robert Stevenson [10] 1969 1970 President of Automotive International – Lee Iacocca [10] 1969 1970 President of Automotive North America 10 Lee Iacocca [10] [13] [15] [14] December 10, 1970 July 13, 1978 11 Philip Caldwell [3] [16] October 16, 1978 March 13, 1980 12 Donald Petersen [3] [13] March 13, 1980 ...
Consolidation of the automobile industry is an ongoing occurrence. Behind each automobile brand lies larger parent corporations.Auto mobile corporations, external corporations and private shareholders commonly own varying amounts of multiple auto mobile corporations, thus resulting analysis of relationships between auto mobile corporations becomes increasingly complicated.
Robert (Maximum Bob) Anthony Lutz (born February 12, 1932) is a Swiss-American automotive executive. He served as a top leader of all of the United States Big Three automobile manufacturers, having been in succession executive vice president (and board member) of Ford Motor Company, president and then vice chairman (and board member) of Chrysler Corporation, and vice chairman of General Motors.