Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW October 21, 2013 – 1:30 pm ET GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – If you take a close look at some major global industries you’ll see what you’d expect to find…companies that fight hard to win in the marketplace. Not surprisingly, many of these are fierce competitors… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW September 30, 2013 – 10:30 am ET DETROIT, Mich. – With volumes surging over the past two years and record OEM earnings reported, the auto space has rebounded smartly from the dark days of the Great Recession. Nevertheless, there is seemingly an endless parade of… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW September 5, 2013 – 6:30 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – Events the past two weeks in Syria remind us how fragile the United States has become regarding its oil dependency, and have put a spotlight on our glaring lack of a national energy policy. Regional… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW August 16, 2013 – 10:30 am ET TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – At the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefings last week the themes were Mobility, Profitability & Sustainability and the discussion centered on how, despite ever-growing new challenges, today there are profitable, sustainable opportunities throughout… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW May 22, 2013 – 4:30 pm ET DETROIT, Michigan. – Since the crash of late 2008, Toyota has seen its share of corporate culture-jarring changes that have deeply affected many of their marketing and manufacturing traditions.   Looking back at the “triple-witching” natural and financial disasters… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW May 6, 2013 – 10:30 am ET GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Last decade scores of Michigan manufacturers traveled the road to China in hopes of economic opportunity. Some companies were successful if not lucky, others are still trying to find a business model that works… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW April 17, 2013 – 10:30 am ET DETROIT, Mich. – Automotive sales performance in March was strong with the Domestic Three and Honda leading the way. Overall sales in the U.S. grew 3% in the month, with annualized volume projected to reach nearly 15.3 million… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW April 4, 2013 – 1:30 pm ET DETROIT, Mich. – Over the past decade the automotive OEMs have worked hard to move away from an underwhelming manufacturing/finance-driven focus to become marketing/design-driven companies. Instead of purely cost dictating design decisions, manufacturing and finance have begun to… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW March 25, 2013 – 11:30 am ET GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – If we look back just five decades or so, think of the popular brands and products that filled our commercial landscape – Pan American airlines, Gimbels department stores, and Burroughs adding machines, to name… Read more »

March 11, 2013 Dave and I discuss the critical need of workforce readiness in the auto space:  re-training assembly line workers with new required shop floor skills, attracting Millennials into the engineering space, urging the UAW to make their case through a value proposition, and more… http://www.stationcaster.com/stations/wjrw/media/mpeg/Phil_Biggs-1363019354.mp3 zp8497586rq