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  IBM case study on Continental AG, SAP
Continental AG, a major international tire manufacturer, improved key performance indicators through a supply chain management (SCM) system based on integrated i2 and SAP, implemented with the help of IBM Business Consulting Services.
Continental decided to implement an i2 SCM system to address several major business objectives: increase turn rate in distribution warehouses, achieve better tire availability (having the tires at the right time at the right locations) and improve reliability of order confirmations and forecasts.
Continental Corporation is a major international supplier of tires for cars, commercial vehicles and two-wheelers; hydraulic and electronic brake systems; and electronic air suspension systems.
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 Continental AG - Wikipedia
Die Continental AG ist nach Michelin, Bridgestone und Goodyear der viertgrößte Reifenhersteller der Welt.
Continental übernahm seinerzeit die mexikanische Reifenfirma Euzkadi und schloss das Unternehmen 2001 überraschend nach langanhaltenden Kontroversen mit dem Euzkadi-Management und der Gewerkschaftsvertretung um Arbeitszeitverlängerungen und Lohnkürzungen.
Der Bau ist weitgehend identisch mit einem in gleicher Zeit entstandenen Verwaltungsgebäude der Mannesmann AG in Düsseldorf.
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 WebWire® | Continental AG Taps A Full Range Of AMD Solutions For A Competitive Edge
Continental AG is a leading supplier of automotive brake systems, chassis components, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers.
“Continental AG Research & Development Department began using Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors in October 2005.
Continental’s IT decision makers also chose to equip employees with HP dx5150 desktop systems based on AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Sempron™ processors for enormous power savings and impressive system performance.
www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=10839   (692 words)

  
 Continental sells tire facility in Ohio - Boston.com
Tire maker and automotive supplier Continental AG said Tuesday it sold the off-the-road tire facility of Continental Tire North America Inc. in Bryan, Ohio, to Titan Tire Corp. for US$53 million (euro41.5 million).
Continental AG said Tuesday it sold the off-the-road tire facility of Continental Tire North America Inc. in Bryan, Ohio, to Titan Tire Corp. for US$53 million (euro41.5 million).
He said the decision to sell the facility was part of Continental's plan to focus on passenger and light truck and commercial vehicle tire manufacturing.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/08/01/continental_sells_tire_facility_in_ohio   (164 words)

  
 Continental AG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Continental AG, or Conti for short, is a manufacturer of tires, brake systems, vehicle stability control systems, and other automobile parts based in Hannover, Germany.It is among the Top 10 first tier automobile supplier in the world.
Continental manufactures tires for cars, trucks, bicycles, and agricultural machines.
Continental recently acquired a controlling interest in Temic, DaimlerChrysler's automotive-electronics business, which is now part of Continental Automotive Systems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Continental_AG   (221 words)

  
 Continental - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Continental is a brand of dried and pre-packaged foods used by Unilever in Australia.
Continental Glaciers, the type of glacier that occurs in and on moderately sloped land at lower (non-mountain) elevations during a moderate to severe Glacial Period (i.e.
Continental philosophy is a 20th century school of philosophy based mostly on texts by French and German philosophers, and especially Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Continental   (369 words)

  
 Continental Automotive Systems :: Continental Automotive Systems Exhibits 'Forward Thinking' in Vehicle Intelligence ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Continental is also demonstrating how it is inspiring "Forward Thinking" by sponsoring high school students who aspire to develop the intelligent vehicles of the future.
Continental is one of four corporate partners participating in the Convergence Education Foundations' Innovative Vehicle Design program.
Continental Automotive Systems develops and produces electronic and hydraulic brake, stability and chassis control systems, electronic air suspension systems, sensors, engine management and transmission control systems, hybrid drives, cooling fan modules, body and security electronics and also is the industry leader of embedded telematics and communication systems in vehicles.
sev.prnewswire.com /auto/20061013/DEF00413102006-1.html   (649 words)

  
 Green Car Congress: VW and Continental Partner on Hybrid Power Electronics
Volkswagen AG and Continental Automotive Systems have agreed on a strategic partnership for the development and supply of power electronics for future hybrid projects.
Continental Automotive Systems sees hybrid drives as the right approach to a mobility developing away from internal combustion engines and the consumption of fossil fuels toward environmentally safe and dynamic driving.
Continental Automotive Systems, a division of Continental AG, and ZF Friedrichshafen AG formed a consortium in 2005 for the purpose of jointly developing and marketing hybrid vehicle technology for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
www.greencarcongress.com /2006/01/vw_and_continen.html   (408 words)

  
 Continental Teves North American Media Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Continental AG on Monday unveiled a plan to develop more safety products on vehicles through a new telematics business unit.
Continental said in a statement that its new telematics unit will enhance active safety performances of vehicles through higher levels of collision-avoidance capabilities.
Continental's interested in the two U.S.-based companies ranges from relatively small parts to entire businesssegments that could also be located outside the U.S., Wennemer said.
www.contitevesna.com /whatthy.htm   (2898 words)

  
 CON - Continental AG - Google Finance
Continental AG is an international automotive components supplier.
Continental AG not opposed to strategic investor taking a stake in co
continental ag, the world's fourth-largest tiremaker, reported an increase inits adjusted ebit and consolidated sales for the first nine months of 2006.
google.com /finance?cid=673450   (242 words)

  
 Continental AG to sell Ohio plant in revamp - 1/18/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tire maker Continental AG, plans to sell a tire factory in Bryan, Ohio, as part of the reorganization of the German company's U.S. operations, a company spokesman said.
Continental is in talks with one unidentified buyer to sell the plant that makes specialty tires for off-road and agricultural vehicles.
Hamilton, Ontario-based Stelco is seeking bids to beat a proposal by Deutsche Bank AG, which had proposed to provide the steelmaker with $741 million in financing in exchange for a 48 percent stake in the company.
www.detnews.com /2005/autosinsider/0501/18/B03-62185.htm   (242 words)

  
 Competition and Growth: A Contemporary History of the Continental AG
Erker's history is primarily a study in the internal dynamics of Continental.
Concluding that Continental had by the mid-1990s successfully weathered a series of potentially devastating challenges to its very existence, Erker paints a reasonably optimistic picture of the firm's future.
It is, thus, difficult to judge the significance of recent crises in shaping Continental's evolution.
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 Continental Corporation -Continental AG Supplies High-Tech Products for BMW M5 and M6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For the new M5 Limousine and the M6 Coupé, BMW M is purchasing premium technology from the international automotive supplier Continental AG, Hanover.
As a high-performance tire, the ContiSportContact 2 is ideal for the chassis of the new M model.
Continental was the only tire manufacturer to be approved for the production start-up of the M5 and the M6.
www.generaltire.com /generator/www/com/en/continental/portal/themes/press_services/press_releases/pr_2005_06_29_1_en.html   (433 words)

  
 Continental AG Deploys AMD-Based Systems
Continental AG is a supplier of automotive brake systems, chassis components, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers.
Continental's IT Competence Center, RandD Tire, is basing its future x86 server systems on Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant BL25p, BL35p and BL45p server blades.
Continental's IT also chose to equip employees with HP dx5150 desktop systems, with AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Sempron processors, based on power savings and system performance.
www.hpcwire.com /hpc/593898.html   (478 words)

  
 Continental-Konzern -Corporate Governance-Grundsätze der Continental AG
Die Erklärung der Continental AG nach § 161 AktG vom 29.
Die Erklärung der Continental AG nach § 161 AktG vom 01.
Die Grundzüge des Vergütungssystems für die Mitglieder des Vorstands der Continental AG steht Ihnen hier als PDF-Dokument (60 KB) zur Verfügung.
www.conti-online.com /generator/www/com/de/continental/portal/themen/continental/corporate_governance_de.html   (192 words)

  
 Continental AG to set up IT facility - Sify.com
New Delhi: Recognising the IT prowess of India, German automotive giant Continental AG is looking at setting up a dedicated captive facility in the country, a senior company official has said.
However, he clarified that no decision had been taken on the matter as yet and it was just in an exploratory stage.
Schwefer said Continental earlier had most of its job done through IBM but was gradually effecting a change in its approach.
sify.com /finance/fullstory.php?id=13902467   (441 words)

  
 WebWire® | Motorola Completes Sale of Automotive Electronics Business to Continental AG
On 3 April 2006, Motorola and Continental AG announced that the companies had entered into an agreement under which Continental would acquire Motorola’s automotive electronics business and integrate it into Continental’s Automotive Systems division.
Beginning on 2 July 2006, the former Motorola automotive unit began operating as Continental; however the assets and employees of the business in China will be transferred following the satisfaction of certain regulatory and other customary closing conditions.
In connection with this sale, the financial results of this business will be presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as a discontinued operation in the company’s 2nd quarter results, to be released on July 19, 2006.
www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=16088   (435 words)

  
 Continental AG enters automotive telematics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The acquisition of Motorola's automotive electronics division strengthens Continental's position in the world market, especially in integrated telematics and handsfree solutions based on Bluetooth technology.
At the same time, Continental AG released its results for the fist half of financial year 2006.
Continental Automotive Systems achieved an operational profit of €317 million (about $406 million), up 14 percent year-over-year.
www.eetimes.eu /automotive/191800019   (531 words)

  
 Lexikon Continental AG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
August 2004 bekräftigte der deutsche Reifenproduzent Continental im Zuge seines Umsatzberichts, dass er durch Umstrukturierungsmaßnahmen trotz im übrigen günstiger Prognosen die Reifenfertigung im US-Werk Mayfield in Kentucky zum Jahresende für unbestimmte Zeit einzustellen gedenkt.
Dezember 2005 fand zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Continental AG eine Betriebsvollversammlung aller in Deutschland beschäftigten Mitarbeiter an 26 Standorten statt.
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 Continental AG | BuyBlue.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Continental AG keeps rolling along as Germany's largest manufacturer of tires for cars, trucks, bicycles, and agricultural products.
Continental sells its tires -- under the Continental, Uniroyal, and General brands -- to automakers such as BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, and Porsche.
Continental also makes electronic brake and traction control systems (Continental Teves).
www.buyblue.org /node/5917   (179 words)

  
 Continental AG
Zwei Gewerkschaften verklagen Continental - Beschäftigte streiten in der Hauptversammlung für ihre Rechte
„Der Betriebsrat des Autozulieferers Continental AG befürchtet nach dem angekündigten Aus für die Pkw-Reifenproduktion in Hannover-Stöcken eine "Schließungswelle" bei Conti-Reifenstandorten.
Continental schließt Werk in Guadalajara Mexiko unter Internationales / Mexiko
www.labournet.de /branchen/chemie/conti   (902 words)

  
 INTERVIEW Continental AG eyes acquisitions, including Delphi assets - CFO UPDATE - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
HANNOVER (AFX) - Continental AG believes present conditions in the automotive industry are favourable for acquisitions and is now looking at some possible targets, including assets of US rival Delphi Inc, CFO Alan Hippe said in a telephone interview with AFX News.
Speaking after the company had released its quarterly results, Hippe said Continental has 'done our analysis and we have a picture' of the assets of Delphi but it is difficult to judge right now whether they fit the criteria of Continental.
Asked which opportunities could open up for Continental as a result of Delphi's filing for Chapter 11 under US bankruptcy protection, he said: 'It is hard for me to judge because the process is running at Delphi.
www.forbes.com /markets/feeds/afx/2005/11/02/afx2313735.html   (1222 words)

  
 Continental AG not opposed to strategic investor taking a stake in co - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Continental AG not opposed to strategic investor taking a stake in co - Forbes.com
FRANKFURT (AFX) - Continental AG is not opposed to a strategic investor acquiring a stake in the company, the group's chief executive Manfred Wennemer said in an interview with the German trade magazine Automobilwoche.
On Sept 19, Continental said it had been contacted by an unnamed private equity investor over the possibility of a public takeover bid, but that talks were terminated by mutual agreement.
www.forbes.com /afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2006/11/19/afx3188569.html   (412 words)

  
 Continental AG to phase out 380 Elma jobs - Business First of Buffalo:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
An automotive manufacturing plant in Elma that Motorola Inc. sold to Continental AG of Germany in July will be closed in three years, taking with it 380 jobs.
Continental officials informed workers Thursday morning of the decision to cease production by the end of 2009.
We were told Continental is a very sound company and that the Elma operation fit into its whole future production plans," he said.
www.bizjournals.com /buffalo/stories/2006/10/30/daily37.html?from_rss=1   (677 words)

  
 Byte and Switch - Continental AG Taps AMD - Storage Networking News Wire
"Continental AG Research & Development Department began using Dual-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors in October 2005.
A significant consolidation of the terminal server environment is anticipated from the use of Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors with AMD PowerNow!(TM) technology.
Continental's IT decision makers also chose to equip employees with HP dx5150 desktop systems based on AMD Athlon(TM) 64 and AMD Sempron(TM) processors for enormous power savings and impressive system performance.
www.byteandswitch.com /document.asp?doc_id=90512   (795 words)

  
 Continental AG Careers: Vault Career & Hiring Profiles
We provide a free insider career profile on Continental AG, based on interviews and surveys of Continental AG employees.
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