General Motors Dutch automaker Spyker, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, the reorganized GM made an initial public offering that was one of the world's top five largest IPOs to date, and returned to profitability later that year. Based on global sales, General Motors is routinely among the world's largest automakers. Headquartered at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, GM employs approximately 180,000 people around the world. In 2009, General Motors sold 6.5 million cars and trucks globally; in 2010, it sold 8.39 million. , Mary Barra is the chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of the board and
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