10 Quotes by Craig Hutson

Union negotiations will play a critical role in the plan's success, and even with the health care concessions, it is not clear that a sense of urgency and shared pain exists at the UAW.

If a deal doesn't get done, bondholders are looking at owning a credit that has seen its financial performance deteriorate at kind of a staggering rate.

Whirlpool is hitting on all cylinders despite a challenging cost environment. You're going to see underlying profitability improve significantly in the near term with new product innovation and easier comparisons.

We don't know a whole lot about this yet. To date, this is just headline fodder. These spreads are very attractive if nothing happens.

Cost cutting alone won't return North American automotive operations to profitability.

The results were awful. Clearly Maytag has made no progress on bringing cost savings to the bottom line.

Although the business had been declining, the price seems low for a sales base of $1.2 billion.

This latest news that they will be applying more of the employee discounts on the '06 model flies in the face of that strategy. It may depend on how many models we are talking about here. If it's a small number, it doesn't concern us that much.

Ford must design and manufacture vehicles that consumers want to purchase without huge incentives.