Chrysler to close 2 plants in Q3 2008: magazine
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DaimlerChrysler's loss-making Chrysler division will close two manufacturing plants in the third quarter of 2008 in an effort to boost capacity utilization and stem costs, a German magazine reported.
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Fiat SpA's auto unit said Wednesday that it will temporarily reduce production at three factories next month, a move that will affect thousands of workers.
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Chrysler LLC has a "realistic" business plan in place and "hopes to avoid" future buyouts or other downsizing due to U.S. economic woes, the company's president said on Tuesday.
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Chrysler Group, the embattled U.S. unit  of DaimlerChrysler AG (DCXGn.DE), reported an 8 percent drop in  February sales on Thursday, becoming the last of the Detroit  automakers to confirm weaker results for the month.
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Chrysler LLC and bankrupt supplier  Plastech Engineered Products Inc reached an interim deal that  will allow the U.S. automaker to resume production at four  idled plants and avoid shutting down all of its assembly  operations, an attorney for Plastech said on Tuesday.
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Two Chrysler LLC plants in Indiana voted on Tuesday to reject a proposed contract for the No. 3 U.S. automaker, marking the latest and most serious setback to a tentative four-year deal negotiated by the United Auto Workers union.
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DaimlerChrysler AG's  Chrysler Group plans to cut more than 10,000 factory jobs and close at least two plants to return the U.S-based unit to profitability, the Detroit News said on Monday.
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A restructuring plan is designed to reduce the cost of producing each vehicle and more closely align Chrysler with its parent company.
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The Chrysler Group is abandoning a plan to build a new luxury sedan, citing fuel regulations currently on the table in Washington that could push U.S. automakers to increase vehicle fuel mileage, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Chrysler has a backlog of gasguzzlers while consumers want fuel-efficient vehicles, and plant closings and job cuts are rumored to be in the works.
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Detroit's Big Three automakers are  preparing to push for more help from Washington to ease the  burden stemming from massive health-care and retiree costs, the  head of DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler division said on Monday.
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DETROIT/FRANKFURT  - DaimlerChrysler announced 13,000 job cuts at Chrysler on Wednesday and may part ways with its loss-making North-American arm, which would unwind a 1998 mega merger creating the world's fifth-biggest car maker.
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DaimlerChrysler raised the prospect of parting company with its loss-making U.S. Chrysler arm on Wednesday, a move which could unwind a blockbusting 1998 merger creating the world's No. 5 car maker.
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Automaker DaimlerChrysler AG lowered its 2006 operating profit forecast Friday, saying its Chrysler Group expects a $1.52 billion loss in the third quarter, more than double the amount anticipated.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - DaimlerChrysler's DCXGn.DE   U.S. arm Chrysler will cut its production by around 90,000   units in the third quarter and around 135,000 in the second   half to try to reduce a glut of inventory, the company said on   Tuesday.
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Automaker Chrysler Group announced plans Wednesday to cut 13,000 jobs through 2009 as it attempts to stem rising losses.
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A bankruptcy court judge set a hearing  date on Monday of February 13 to weigh arguments between  Chrysler LLC and one of its suppliers, Plastech Engineered  Products Inc, in a dispute that has already led the automaker  to close four assembly plants.