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GM Daewoo mulls temporary shutdown amid sales slump
AFP - Tuesday, November 11
SEOUL (AFP) - - The South Korean unit of US General Motors Corp said Tuesday it is considering a temporary closure of plants amid a worldwide fall in demand.
"We are reviewing it (suspension). A decision will be made in late November," said Kim Young-Soo, spokesman for GM Daewoo.
"Like other industries, GM is being affected by the global financial crisis," Kim told AFP, declining further comment.
A local media report said the automaker would shut plants for 10 days starting December 20.
In October GM Daewoo reported that its auto sales declined 11.3 percent from a year earlier to 73,180.
Yonhap news agency said such a shutdown would be the first since 2002 when GM and its partners took a majority stake in Daewoo Motor, part of the now defunct Daewoo Group.
The group collapsed under a debt mountain totalling 82 billion dollars -- one of the world's largest corporate failures -- in the wake of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.
General Motors and other US automakers are in dire straits because of the global economic crisis.
Its chief executive Rick Wagoner has said it needs to line up a federal aid package even before president-elect Barack Obama takes office in January.
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