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…600 square metres of floor space within the 38 000 square metre warehouse of its PDC facility located at Coega near Port Elizabeth. Up until recently General Motors Company (NYSE:GM)’s operations in South Africa exported Isuzu parts to four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, which included Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique. The company’s customer base has now increased to 25 countries across the SSA region.

Elon Musk doesn’t let up at Tesla and SpaceX (The News Journal)
If endless hours are a requirement to become a business icon, Elon Musk has put in his share. Nearly every week, he shuttles 400 miles between electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) in the San Francisco Bay Area and rocket maker Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in this Los Angeles suburb. He is CEO of both. As fatiguing as his life may be, Musk is establishing himself as one of America’s pre-eminent high-tech entrepreneurs. Sure, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and Sergey Brin and Larry Page introduced the world to Google. But Musk not only co-founded online payment service PayPal, he doubled, then tripled down by taking on two entirely unrelated, high-risk tech businesses.

GM board votes to close first Opel factory in decades (Autoblog)
Europe’s ailing economy has caused the supervisory board at General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), which includes four senior executives, to vote to end production of the Opel Zafira MPV at the 50-year-old Bochum plant in Germany. The closing of the car factory marks the first closure of a German automobile assembly plant in decades, and it will cost Buchum (a city with nearly 375,000 residents in the western part of the country) about 3,000 jobs.

Ford Motor Company (F): Can It Keep Riding The US’s Recovery Higher? (Insider Monkey)
On Wednesday, Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they’ll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever inevitable surprises arise. That way, you’ll be less likely to make an uninformed knee-jerk reaction to news that turns out to be exactly the wrong move. Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)’s comeback over recent years has been nothing short of spectacular, as the automaker managed to regain its footing without government assistance to turn the tables on its competitors both in the U.S. and abroad. But how can the company keep its momentum going forward?