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MetricStream Enters into Agreement to Provide GRC Platform for Risk...

MetricStream Enters into Agreement to Provide GRC Platform for Risk based Internal Audit Management to Lear Corporation.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Auto parts supplier Lear issues 2009 sales outlook

Auto parts supplier Lear Corp., which emerged from bankruptcy protection two days ago, said Wednesday it expects sales this year will total $9.5 billion, well below last year's results.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Southfield, MI

Miami Herald

Auto supplier Lear exits bankruptcy

Auto parts maker Lear Corp. emerged Monday from four months in bankruptcy protection, saying it has a healthier balance sheet, less debt and a backlog of new business.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Plastics News

Advance work helped Lear exit bankruptcy quickly

Lear Corp. emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy today under the ownership of its secured lenders and bondholders after four months under court protection.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Sprint has plan to cut 2,500 jobs

Sprint Nextel Corp. on Monday said it will cut 2,000 to 2,500 jobs, mostly before the end of the year, as it keeps losing subscribers.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Earth Times

Lear Completes Financial Reorganization and New Common Shares Will Begin Trading on the NYSE

Lear Corporation, a leading global supplier of automotive seating systems, electrical distribution systems and electronic products, announced today that it has successfully emerged from its court-supervised financial reorganization with a strong and flexible balance sheet, positive operating results in the Third Quarter, a growing sales backlog and ...

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GuruFocus.com

Lear Corp. Reports Operating Results

Lear Corp. filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-10-03. Lear Corporation one of the largest independent automotive suppliers in the world.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

Earth Times

LEAR Bankruptcy News, Issue No. 15

FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. -- Bankruptcy Creditors' Service, Inc., published Issue No. 15 of LEAR BANKRUPTCY NEWS today.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Fairless Hills, PA

Detroit Free Press

Plenty of reasons to temper our optimism

November began with a daily dose of hope for greater Detroit: • Monday, Ford Motor Co.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Southfield, MI, Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Tech Confidential Blog

Judge confirms Lear plan

Judge confirms Lear plan Posted on November 6, 2009 7:30 AM Lear Corp. has been given the green light from a New York judge to motor out of Chapter 11.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Southfield, MI

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Crain's Detroit Business

Lear Corp. seeking court's OK to replace six board members

A crew of auto industry veterans and financial executives will replace six of Southfield-based Lear Corp.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Economics News, Bankruptcy, General Motors, Troy, MI

Mon Nov 02, 2009

ZanesvilleTimesRecorder.com

Remembering when Lear was king Former employees reminisce and share thoughts on better times

ZANESVILLE -- A little more than a year ago, Southfield, Mich.-based Lear Corp. announced plans to close its Linden Avenue facility, and intentions to cut loose the final 175 employees.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Zanesville, OH, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Canada.com

Auto parts workers face 'life after Lear'

Born out of the 1965 Canada-U.S. auto pact, the Lear Corp. plant in Windsor, Ont., closed its doors Friday, sending longtime employees like Harry Keller out into the economic wilderness.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Canada, Buick Lucerne, Buick, Hamtramck, MI, Pension, Personal Finance

Fri Oct 09, 2009

Bloomberg

Lear Said to Pay Lenders Minimum of 7.75% for $400 Million Exit Financing

Lear Corp ., the worlda s second- largest maker of automotive seats, will pay lenders a minimum interest rate of 7.75 percent for $400 million of financing to exit bankruptcy, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Wed Sep 30, 2009

The Janesville Gazette - Janesville, ...

Edgerton sorry to see companies leave town

So eight years later, the city is sad to see those businesses leave, taking 50 jobs with them, Mayor Erik Thompson said.

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Sun Sep 27, 2009

Channel3000

New Companies Coming To Janesville

New life is coming to the empty Janesville building that once housed the Lear Corporation.

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Sat Sep 26, 2009

The Janesville Gazette - Janesville, ...

Green-Tek moving from Edgerton to former Lear building

A group of Green-Tek employees tour the building that formerly housed the Lear Corp on Janesville's east side.

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Sun Sep 20, 2009

The Peninsula

Car slump to spark supplier mergers and bankruptcies

'The current auto crisis will amplify the trend of consolidation of the industry', Peter Pleus, chief executive of German supplier Schaeffler Automotive, said on the sidelines of the Frankfurt Motor Show.

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Fri Sep 04, 2009

Denver Post

KKR targeting bankrupt companies

The biggest private-equity firms, shut out of the market for leveraged buyouts as banks curtail lending, are turning to bankruptcy courts to make acquisitions.

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Thu Sep 03, 2009

Bloomberg Business News

KKR Turns Vulture Investor as Distressed Debt Takeovers Cheaper Than LBOs

The worlda s biggest private-equity firms, shut out of the market for leveraged buyouts as banks curtail lending, are turning to bankruptcy courts to make acquisitions.

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, Manufacturing, Automakers, Textiles, Banking, Financial Services, Ubs Ag, Southfield, MI

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