Skylarking
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I really doubt PSA were such great managers or had such great foresight that they flipped an unprofitable Opel into a profitable Opel.Maybe..... but...... I don't think PSA are any more virtuous than any other multi when it comes to shifting profits. Secondly, if GM were making any meaningful money they wouldn't have been moved on.
So, I’d guess PSA accounting principles were probably the only meaningful difference between them and GM. But that doesn’t make them more virtuous than other multinationals. All humans cheat on their taxes, some are conservative cheats while others are aggressive cheats and maybe PSA is a conservative cheat as compared to GM. Regardless, cheating is not a virtue
As to GM making meaningful money from Holden, by all accounts GM we hamstringing Holden from freely exporting its product globally, especially to the USA. GM wouldn’t be the first company to inhibit internal competition between their subsidiaries only to do themselves out of a market as a real competitor sells a better product. And GM wouldn’t be the first to sell a subsidiary and then see the buyer shift it into decent profit once the hamstringing was gone... but GM retired the brand and saved such embarrassment