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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: New boss vows 'reinvented' GM even in bankruptcy AFP - Monday, April 6 WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Embattled General Motors is girding for bankruptcy if necessary but will still emerge "reinvented" from its wrenching crisis, GM's new government-backed boss Fritz Henderson said Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said President Barack Obama's administration was looking at all options for GM, after former CEO Rick Wagoner was replaced by Henderson last week on White House orders. "Our preference is to do it outside of a bankruptcy process," Henderson said on NBC program "Meet the Press," as America's largest automaker undergoes a painful restructuring with the emergency backing of government cash. "But it would only be prudent to make sure that we're planning (for court-supervised bankruptcy), if we need to resort to that -- that we can move and we can move fast," the company veteran said. The new chief executive indicated that even deeper job cuts and plant closures were in the offing as sprawling GM battles to survive, anticipating a future group built around just "four core brands." He acknowledged the group would likely have to launch an even bigger restructuring as part of a "Chapter 11" bankruptcy, amid speculation GM would have to hive off premium brands such as Buick and Cadillac. Saab, a historic marque already dumped by GM, could find its days numbered if any creditors object to its restructuring at a Swedish court hearing on Monday. Both Obama and his White House task force have indicated that bankruptcy "may very well be the best solution for the company to achieve these goals," Henderson said in another interview on CNN. "I'm quite certain -- because I think whether we do it outside the bankruptcy process or inside -- we will change, we will be fundamentally different going forward," the new boss said. "And the company's going to be reinvented." Wagoner was forced out last week as Obama's auto task force rejected new restructuring proposals put forward by the bailed-out carmaker, and issued a 60-day deadline for Henderson's new team to present another plan. "There's a range of options that could work," Geithner told CBS television, asked if bankruptcy was now the government's preferred option for GM. "We're open to what's going to work. We're prepared to be helpful and to help that," the Treasury chief said. "And it's going to take more. These guys have made some progress in putting together a restructuring plan, but they're not there yet. We wanted to give them the time to try to get it right." Geithner added: "The automobile industry is a central part of the American dream, of the basic fabric of the American experience. We want them to be part of our future." Talk of bankruptcy for GM was angrily rejected by Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow, whose state of Michigan is ground zero of the US auto industry's crisis and has the nation's worst jobless rates. "I do not support bankruptcy, certainly as the first, second, or third options," she said on CNN, noting that GM has pension obligations to 600,000 retirees who could lose their benefits without government intervention. "We have retiree health care. People who gave up wage increases multiple times in order to make sure they had a pension and had health care," Stabenow said. The US government would be on the hook for up to 80 billion dollars if GM goes under, she said. "So it certainly is not my first option. And I know that it's not the first option of the administration." Henderson said the slow road to recovery came with changing customer perceptions of the desirability and reliability of GM cars. "There's no magic to this," he said on NBC. "You've just got to get the job done every day." Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 1 user recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed Journalists get shock with 'sexy' White House call Explosives chemical found in US baby formula Guantanamo 'soooo beautiful!' Miss Universe says US ready to force out bankers: Geithner Arctic may be ice-free in 30 years: study View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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