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Wallace Automotive struggled to right-size inventory during the recession, but it also invested in service equipment and treated fixed ops staffers like superstars.

A retired Automotive News reporter remembers the time Sergio Marchionne failed miserably in his audition as an entry-level market research intern.

Germany's century-old ZF Friedrichshafen wants to make the transition from axle-maker, steering-maker and transmission-maker to a supplier of autonomous-drive technologies.

Thirty-two years ago today, I walked in the door at Crain Communications as a newly hired reporter for a startup publication called Crain's Detroit Business. Today, my 32nd anniversary, is also my last day working for the company that has given me so many opportunities. I am retiring to move on to new adventures.

Cummins LiveWell Center offers employees lower health care fees, more in-depth counseling than traditional medical clinics.

Diesel-maker Cummins Inc. is trying a new approach to tackle one of the business world's knottiest problems - the skyrocketing cost of U.S. health care. Its LiveWell Center offers not only easy-access traditional health care services, but also advice to help employees and their families lead healthier lives.

Clarence Ditlow, who died Nov. 10 at age 72, played an instrumental role in making vehicles safer, more reliable and more fuel efficient.

Dealer Bert Boeckmann, one of a select group of living legends who came of age just as the U.S. automotive landscape was changing dramatically, doesn't much like the term "legend." Yet, it applies.

Not long after taking over as Ford Motor Co. CEO in 2006, Alan Mulally was meeting with dealers in Las Vegas when someone suggested he visit Galpin Ford in Van Nuys, Calif., if he wanted to find out how the business really worked.