History of General Motors History of General Motors The history of General Motors (GM), one of the world's largest car and truck manufacturers, reaches back more than a century and involves a vast scope of industrial activity around the world, mostly focused on motorized transportation and the engineering and manufacturing that make it possible. Founded in 1908 as a holding company in Flint, Michigan, as of 2012 it employs approximately 209,000 people around the world. With global headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, United States, General Motors manufactures cars and trucks in 35 countries. In 2008, 8.35 million GM cars and trucks
American Motors Corporation billion controlling stake in Nissan in March 1999. In contrast to the AMC/Renault partnership, Carlos Ghosn, CEO and President of Renault of France and Nissan of Japan, is guiding the Renault–Nissan Alliance away from national identities. Similarly, Mitsubishi Motors, which established a joint venture agreement in 1970 with Chrysler that expanded in 1985 to a 50-50 joint corporation for producing passenger cars in the United States Diamond-Star Motors until 1993 when Chrysler sold off its stock holdings of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation became controlled by Nissan in 2016 and thus a part of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance. American Motors was forced to