General Motors currently employees approximately 266,000 people around the world. GM’s global headquarters is the Renaissance Center located in Detroit, Michigan, US. In 2007, 9.35 million GM cars and trucks were produced in 19 countries. General Motors is the preponderance shareholder in GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Co. of South Korea and has had much collaboration with the world’s different automakers.
This includes product, power train and purchasing collaborations with Suzuki Motor Corp. and Isuzu Motors Ltd. of Japan, advanced technology collaborations with Toyota Corporation and BMW AG of Germany and vehicle manufacturing schemes with several of the world’s automakers including Toyota, Suzuki, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation of China, AvtoVAZ of Russia, Renault SA of France, and most recently, UzAvtosanoa of Uzbekistan. GM also had collaborations with Fiat S.p.A and Ford Motor Company. To this day, GM retains a variety of stakes in many different automakers.
According to at least one automotive columnist, as GM seeks aid from European governments in 2009 while acknowledging it has no substitute plan, and admits it is willing to surrender control of its operations in Europe to enable an infusion of cash, the “de facto deglobalization” of GM is in progress.
The domain name gm.com attracted as a minimum 7 million visitors annually by 2008.