NEW YORK – During a special meeting with his two top executives recently, General Motors Co. Chairman Ed Whitacre strongly suggested the company increase spending on marketing by hundreds of millions of dollars annually to get the message out on new products, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz tells Ward's.
Lutz says Whitacre told him and CEO Fritz Henderson that GM's advertising budget was in “no way ...
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