One bright spot was manufacturing jobs, which rose by 37, 000, led by the auto and auto-parts industries.
Since 2011, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has filed more than 20 of notices of violation against his auto-parts empire, Illinois-based Flex-N-Gate.
Pakistan native Shahid Khan started auto parts company Flex-N-Gate and bought the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Now 42, he grew up on Long Island, where he worked in his father's auto-parts store.
Sales of its auto parts, two-thirds of which are exported, have doubled over the last five years.
It filed for bankruptcy in October and its automotive assets have been sold to a Chinese auto-parts firm.
Another engineer, Franco Savoni, who joined Elkay from an auto-parts company, was assigned to speed up the flow.
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In 1986 Rohan Vos, a wealthy south African auto-parts dealer, bought several vintage railcars for his private amusement.
W. Michael Brown has scaled back hiring plans in his Virginia auto-parts stores.
Its properties are primarily free-standing, single tenant buildings occupied by well-known national chain restaurants, auto-parts stores, and convenience stores.
Last month lithium-ion battery firm, A123 was sold to Wanxiang Group, an auto-parts conglomerate controlled by billionaire Lu Guanqiu.
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Dana Corp. is now trying to harmonize 75 purchasing and manufacturing systems scattered over 338 auto-parts plants, a product of 140 acquisitions.
Then there is Autozone (AZO) , the large chain of auto-parts stores.
Roy George was vice-president for human resources at Pricol, the auto-parts company.
During their monthly consulting sessions in the early 1970s, Peter Drucker and Mort Mandel, the then-CEO of electronics and auto-parts distributor Premier Industrial Corp.
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The auto-parts company began in 1921 with Naval buddies and original Pep Boys Emanuel "Manny" Rosenfeld, Maurice "Moe" Strauss, Moe Radavitz and Graham "Jack" Jackson.
Ms. Karoustas, who speaks German, was also able to find a job at an auto-parts company, and they are able to make enough money to furnish their new home.
Private equity firms have wrested labor concessions from the UAW in the past, but those contracts were generally negotiated at small auto-parts suppliers, like American Axle and Metaldyne, with relatively few employees.
Auto-parts suppliers have done relatively well during the recession and prolonged economic downturn, as many consumers have held on to their cars longer and sought out repairs instead of purchasing new cars.
He got his start working at auto parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate then left in 1978 to found his own company, Bumper Works, which makes a one-piece car bumper design that is the industry standard.
Mr. Deripaska's ceding of an interest in the German construction company and the Canadian auto-parts maker show how severely the global credit crisis is affecting the wealth of at least some of Russia's oligarchs.
Leaf springs, its high-volume product that accounts for 67% of its auto parts sales, are fairly simple, low-capital-intensive suspension components.
Note that I have failed to mention AutoZone (NYSE:AZO), a widely-followed auto parts concern.
In the heyday of conglomerates, AVM had 15 divisions, making everything from auto parts and furniture to air-conditioning components.
They make such products as home appliances, auto parts, elevators and power-generation systems.
Magna International ( MGA - news - people )(28, MGA) may be the world's best-run auto parts firm.
India taxes partly-assembled auto parts by up to 100%, while unassembled components are taxed at 10%, a measure meant to encourage local manufacturing.
Carmakers can pay less tax on imports if they do more engineering work in Brazil and use mostly Brazil-made auto parts in their local factories.
Wanxiang is the largest tier-1 auto parts supplier in China.
The person said tax authorities were looking into allegations that BMW had imported partly-assembled auto parts into India but declared to customs they were unassembled to avoid paying higher taxes.
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