Ford Europe on track for 2006 profit: exec
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Ford Europe Chief Executive John Fleming  said on Thursday the European unit of the U.S. auto maker was  on track to post a profit in 2006 for the third consecutive  year.
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U.S. carmaker Ford's  car sales in  Russia will double to an estimated 120,000 vehicles in 2006,  half of them produced locally, the head of the Russian unit  Henrik Nenzen said on Wednesday.
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The automaker predicts better profits in 2005.
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Ford Motor Co.  on Tuesday reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on strength in its finance arm.
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Ford Motor Co. on Thursday reported a quarterly profit, reversing a year-earlier loss, on the strength in its finance arm.
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DEARBORN, Michigan  - Ford Motor Co.  is ahead of where it expected to be in reducing an overhang of excess production capacity at this point in its turnaround effort and has made "encouraging progress" in stabilizing its U.S. market share, a senior executive said on Friday.
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Ford raised its earnings guidance for 2004 today in part on the back of continued strong performance by its financial services business.
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Carrefour, the European retailer, posted a 3.3 percent rise in profit for 2006, with a weaker performance in its home market in France dampening robust growth elsewhere. The company said net profit was 1.86 billion euros ($2.44 billion), compared with 1.8 billion euros in 2005. Sales, which Carrefour reported in January, rose 3.4 percent, to 3.26 billion euros. The earnings report came the day after the chairman of Carrefourâs supervisory board, Luc Vandevelde, resigned in a shake-up.
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Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car maker, has expressed optimism about prospects in its current business year after earnings rose sharply last year on cost-cutting and capital gains.
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NANJING, China  - Ford Motor Co.  Chief Executive Alan Mulally said on Monday that the No. 2 U.S. automaker was keeping its target to return to the black by 2009, although the world economy might be hurt by the U.S. mortgage crisis.
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Ford Motor Co. F.N on Thursday  reported a quarterly profit, reversing a year-earlier loss, as  earnings from its finance arm offset weak automotive operations  for the third straight quarter.
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Ford Motor Co. F.N raised its  earnings outlook on Friday, due to strength from its financial  services sector, even as it announced the end of car production  at a Jaguar plant in Britain and its withdrawal from Formula  One racing.
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Ford Motor Co. F.N on Tuesday  reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as strength in  its finance arm once again offset a loss in its automotive  business.
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Ford Motor Co. F.N on Friday raised  its third-quarter and 2004 profit forecasts because of strength  in its financial services business and cost improvements in its  car operations.
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DaimlerChrysler AG Chief Executive Dieter  Zetsche said on Wednesday the German-U.S. auto maker was  sticking to its forecast for an operating profit of more than 6  billion euros for 2006 despite sales difficulties at its U.S.  Chrysler division.
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Ford Motor Co. is seeking buyers for its Volvo, Jaguar, and Land Rover brands in Europe as the money-losing automaker tries to focus on North America, two people familiar with the strategy said.
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Swedish heavy lorry maker Volvo AB says its net profit leapt 24.5 percent in 2006 to 16.318 billion kronor (1.8 billion euros, 2.4 billion dollars), on the back of record sales.