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One team, five priorities.

Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn,Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 224,000 employees and about 90 plants worldwide, the company's core and affiliated automotive brands include Ford, Lincoln and Mercury.

The company operates as a globally integrated worldwide team, with five key priorities:

• achieve maximum profitability in any environment

• constantly innovate new products that customers want and value

• develop environmentally friendly products and processes wherever possible

• finance our plans and improve balance sheet

• work together as a global team

You can find out more about our Progress and Priorities in the Ford Motor Company Annual Report.

	A word from Bill Ford

	A biography of Bill Ford

“Enlightened corporations understand that environmental and social issues are business issues. They realise that, ultimately, they can only be as successful as the world in which they exist. That has always been our belief at Ford Motor Company. Our role as a positive contributor to the community is a source of pride to us, and is a major factor in our success as a company. We plan on playing an even greater role in helping to solve many of the daunting issues facing society.”

Bill Ford, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Ford Motor Company

Bill Ford is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Company. He was elected Chairman in 1998 and named Chief Executive Officer in 2001. He serves as Chairman of the Board's Nominating and Governance Committee, and the Environmental and Public Policy Committee. A lifelong environmentalist, he is committed to developing environmentally friendly products and processes.

His achievements include establishing the company's first wildlife habitat at a plant location, and the first automotive plant in the world to use 25% recycled consumer materials in all of its plastic parts. He was also responsible for the company’s first corporate citizenship report in 2000, outlining the economic, environmental and social impact of company products and operations around the world.