Vadodara: More than 1600 employees of General Motors India car manufacturing plant at Halol in Central Gujarat are now unemployed due to closure of car plant on permanent basis. The car plant which was operating at Halol since 1999 shut down due to shrinking market share and labour problems. There are more than two dozen ancillary units that employ around 5,500 labourers. There's all possibility that these labourers will also lose jobs. Some of these units are planning to shift to Sanand, whil...Read More

Vadodara: After producing 1.2 million cars here, General Motors(GM) India is today shutting down its plant permanently at Halol in Central Gujarat. General Motors had purchased Halol plant from Hindustan Motors in 1990s. Halol plant had first produced Opel Astra car in 1996. On the last day of this plant which is today, the company is going to manufacture 72 cars. The plant has annual capacity to manufacture 1,27,000 cars. There are two reasons for winding up the operation at Halol. One ...Read More

Vadodara: American car manufacturer General Motors will shut down its plant at Halol in Central Gujarat on 31st of March. The company has conveyed this to State government. Negotiations are on for takeover of this plant by Shanghai Automotive Industries Corporation(SAIC) but without existing staff. SAIC is likely to purchase the plant under the brand name of MG Motors India Ltd. The new company will have two Indian and four Chinese directors including former CEO of General Motors China Mr. Rajiv...Read More

Vadodara: Employees at General Motors Halol plant are given one-week holiday. It is believed that the company has announced one-week holiday for cost cutting and also for a reason that there's no inventory as of now. The new schedule is likely to be announced on Monday. A subsidiary of China's top carmaker SAIC Motor Corp plans to acquire certain General Motors manufacturing assets in India, a filing with the country's competition watchdog showed. The assets, which could give the Chinese aut...Read More

New Delhi General Motors India will shut down its car manufacturing plant at Halol in central Gujarat by the second half of 2016. The plant has 1,27,000 units per annum capacity as per General Motors India website. General Motors president Dan Ammann made this announcement. The company today also announced that it will invest a $ 1 billion investment in India to revive its business with 10 new models in 5 years, but all this investment will be made at its Talegaon plant, near Pune. G...Read More