General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated (until 2009) as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational

Multinational corporation

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 automotive

Automotive industry

The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue....

 corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan

Michigan

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 and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010. For the first half of 2011, GM was the world's largest automaker.

GM employs 209,000 people and does business in some 157 countries.