Gm's Opel Boots Its Ceo, Girsky Now In Charge

Micheline Maynard, Forbes
Thu, 07/12/2012 - 8:15am

Former Opel CEO Karl-Friedrich Stracke. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) That sound you heard from Detroit this morning was the other shoe dropping, loudly, at Opel. General Motors announced that Karl-Friedrich Stracke stepped down from his positions as GM Europe president Opel/Vauxhall CEO. The new acting CEO is GM Vice Chairman [...]

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