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The Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is an American multinational corporation based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury brands, Ford also owns Volvo Cars of Sweden, and a small stake in Mazda of Japan and Aston Martin of England. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover were sold to Tata Motors of India in March 2008.
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. Henry Ford's methods came to be known around the world as Fordism by 1914.
Ford is currently the fourth-largest automaker in the world based on number of vehicles sold annually, directly behind Volkswagen.[6] In 2007, Ford fell from second to third in US annual vehicle sales for the first time in 56 years, behind only General Motors and Toyota. However, Ford occasionally outsells Toyota in shorter periods (most recently, during the summer months of 2009). As of 2008, Ford has become the second largest automaker in Europe (only behind Volkswagen), with sales that occasionally exceed those in the United States and large markets in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom.[7] Ford is the seventh-ranked overall American-based company in the 2008 Fortune 500 list, based on global revenues in 2008 of $146.3 billion.[8] In 2008, Ford produced 5.532 million automobiles[9] and employed about 213,000 employees at around 90 plants and facilities worldwide.[5] Starting in 2007, Ford received more initial quality survey awards from J. D. Power and Associates than any other automaker. Five of Ford's vehicles ranked at the top of their categories[10] and fourteen vehicles ranked in the top three.[11]
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• 1 History
• 2 Corporate governance
• 3 Recent company developments
  • 3.1 "The Way Forward"
  • 3.2 Online
• 4 Brands and marques
• 5 Global markets
  • 5.1 Europe
  • 5.2 Asia Pacific
  • 5.3 South America
  • 5.4 Africa and Middle East
• 6 Environmental initiatives and alternative propulsion systems
  • 6.1 Compressed natural gas
  • 6.2 Flexible fuel vehicles
  • 6.3 Electric vehicles
    • 6.3.1 Hybrid electric vehicles
    • 6.3.2 All-electric vehicles
  • 6.4 Hydrogen
  • 6.5 Increased fuel efficiency
  • 6.6 PC Power Management
• 7 Auto racing
  • 7.1 NASCAR
  • 7.2 Formula One
  • 7.3 Rally
  • 7.4 Sports cars
  • 7.5 Touring cars
  • 7.6 Other
• 8 Ford trucks
• 9 Bus products
• 10 Ford tractors
• 11 Sales
• 12 Criticism
  • 12.1 Alleged Nazi collaboration
  • 12.2 Argentine "Dirty War"
  • 12.3 Ford Pinto
• 13 See also
• 14 Notes
• 15 References and further reading
  • 15.1 Ford Motor Company
• 16 External links

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