The Ford Motor Company (colloquially referred to
as Ford) is an American multinational automaker headquartered
in Dearborn, Michigan,, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Fordand incorporated on June 16,
1903.
Ford introduced methods for
large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial
workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by
moving assembly lines; by 1914 these methods were
known around the world as Fordism.
Ford is the second-largest
U.S.-based automaker (preceded by General Motors)
and the fifth-largest in the world based on 2010
vehicle sales. At
the end of 2010, Ford was the fifth largest automaker in Europe. Ford
is the eighth-ranked overall American-based company in the 2010 Fortune 500 list,
based on global revenues in 2009 of $118.3 billion. In
2008, Ford produced 5.532 million automobiles and
employed about 213,000 employees at around 90 plants and facilities worldwide.
The company went public in
1956 but the Ford family, through special Class B shares, still retain 40
percent voting rights.[
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