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Reuss Will Oversee GM's Sales As It's Re-Split From Marketing

Detroit Free Press, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 10:36 AM

Susan Docherty, currently vp of both the sales and marketing functions at General Motors, is losing her sales duties to Mark Reuss, who is currently president of the company's North American operations, Tim Higgins reports. An organizational structure that separates the functions sounds similar to one put in place last summer by former GM CEO Fritz Henderson that was scrapped by Ed Whitacre when he took over in December.

"The patience that other companies might have, or GM had in the past, is probably going to bear no relationship to what's happening now," observes corporate restructuring expert Van Conway.

Meanwhile, GM announced this morning a recall of 1.3 million compact cars to address a power steering problem that has been linked to 14 crashes and one injury, Reuters reports. The recall covers the 2005-10 Chevrolet Cobalt and 2007-10 Pontiac G5 in the U.S.; 2005-06 Pontiac Pursuit in Canada, and the 2005-06 Pontiac G4 in Mexico.

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