With the employee-discount programs gone, sales of all kinds of American cars slowed to a trickle in October, and SUV sales will fall off the table in the fourth quarter.
General Motors' "employee price" discount program for all customers is an enormous success at least in running up the numbers.
The company runs employee discount and reward programs for many big companies.
While it is not a very high-profile company, Next Jump already powers the employee discount and rewards programs for 90,000 companies, including 60percentt of the Fortune 500.
It operates employee discount and reward programs on behalf of 90,000 corporations, organizations and affinity groups which reaches more than 100 million consumers.
Still, it's likely that Kerkorian isn't being driven to go car shopping by GM's long-running employee-price discount program.
In 1997, the United States Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that according to the rules governing Microsoft's employee discount stock purchase program, these temp workers should be considered regular workers and they should, therefore, have been able to take part in the stock purchase program.
Next Jump currently operates employee discount and corporate perks programs for more than 90,000 companies and organizations.
Also, the company is embarking on a new marketing strategy that shies away from cash-back and employee-discount incentive programs and instead puts lower price tags on the vehicles to begin with.
Another sponsor, Ford, switched to U.P.S. and Office Depot as its preferred shipper and office supplier; in turn, those companies each promoted Ford discount programs to their employees.
