American manufacturer Ford has reported first half net profit of 4.7 billion dollars, with 3.8 billion dollars over the same period of 2009 results, and revenue rising to 8.2 billion dollars, nearly 60 billion . dollars

Sales advanced to 2.18 million units in January-June 2009 to 2,670,000 units in the first half of this year, according to Ford's financial report. In Europe, sales increased from 743 million to 836 million machines by machines. The group's largest market was North America, with 1.2 million units sold, up from 808,000 cars in the first half of 2009.

At the end of June, the automobile manufacturer to have 178,000 employees, compared with 176,000 employees in late March and 177 000 employees at the end of last year. In Europe, the number of employees totaled at the end of the first and second quarter, 48,000.

In the first quarter, Ford had a 8.7% market share in Europe, with 0.5 percentage points lower than the same period last year. In contrast, in U.S. market share climbed 1.5 percentage points to 16.7%.

Source: http://www.ford.com/