General Motors

General Motors Company
Company typePublic
ISINUS37045V1008
IndustryAutomotive
PredecessorGeneral Motors Corporation
Founded
  • September 16, 1908; 116 years ago (1908-09-16)[1] (original company)
  • July 10, 2009 (2009-07-10) (present company)
Chair & CEOMary Barra
PresidentMark Reuss
FounderWilliam C. Durant
HeadquartersRenaissance Center,
Detroit, Michigan
,
United States
Number of locations
396 facilities on six continents[2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Production output
Increase 6,186,000 vehicles (sales, 2023)[2]
Brands
Services
RevenueIncrease US$171.8 billion (2023)[2]
Decrease US$9.298 billion (2023)[2]
Decrease US$9.840 billion (2023)[2]
Total assetsIncrease US$273.1 billion (2023)[2]
Total equityDecrease US$68.19 billion (2023)[2]
Number of employees
163,000 (2023)[2]
Subsidiaries
Transportation
Financial services
Logistics
Industrial
Websitegm.com

General Motors Company (GM)[2] is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States.[3] The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac. By total sales, it has continuously been the largest automaker in the United States, and was the largest in the world for 77 years before losing the top spot to Toyota in 2008.[4][5]

General Motors operates manufacturing plants in eight countries. In addition to its four core brands, GM also holds interests in Chinese brands Baojun and Wuling via SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile.[2] GM further owns a namesake defense vehicles division which produces military vehicles for the United States government and military,[6] the vehicle safety, security, and information services provider OnStar,[7] the auto parts company ACDelco, a namesake financial lending service, and majority ownership in the self-driving cars enterprise Cruise LLC.

The company originated as a holding company for Buick established on September 16, 1908, by William C. Durant, the largest seller of horse-drawn vehicles at the time. The first half of the 20th century saw the company grow into an automotive behemoth through acquisitions; going into the second half, the company pursued innovation and new offerings to consumers as well as collaborations with NASA to develop the earliest electric vehicles.[8][9] The current entity was established in 2009 after the General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization.[10]

As of 2024, General Motors ranks 25th by total revenue out of all American companies on the Fortune 500 and 50th on the Fortune Global 500.[11][12] In 2023, the company was ranked 70th in the Forbes Global 2000.[13] In 2021, GM announced its intent to end production of vehicles using internal combustion engines by 2035, as part of its plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.[14]

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  14. ^ Boudette, Neal E.; Davenport, Coral (January 28, 2021). "G.M. Will Sell Only Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035". The New York Times.