RICK DEMUYNCK — Executive Director, Global Supplier Quality & Development

Suppliers, the GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award is about recognizing the best of the best manufacturing sites in our supply base. To every winning supplier site represented here, congratulations. Earning this award is not about a single good month or one strong launch. It means your team consistently met or exceeded GM’s most rigorous quality expectations across the entire calendar year. That level of discipline doesn’t happen by accident, it reflects strong quality systems, a deep quality culture on the shop floor, and tight cross-functional collaboration between your teams and GM engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and supplier quality. In a year where our industry continued to navigate volatility and complexity, you kept quality stable and predictable. That is exactly the kind of partnership that we need to protect our customers and our brands.

On behalf of Global Supplier Quality & Development, thank you for your commitment and your responsiveness to us, our plants, and our customers. We are proud to recognize you supplier quality excellence award winners, and we look forward to building on the success together in the years ahead. I’d like to connect this recognition to the way we manage supplier performance every day through QPR, Quality Performance Requirements.

QPR is our global objective measure of a supplier’s quality performance. It combines various aspects of your performance into a single view. Because QPR is based on performance data, it closely tracks what our plants and our customers feel every day.

Higher QPR levels are associated with fewer issues, fewer disruptions and more predictable launches and performance. QPR isn’t just a score, it is a direct reflection of how our systems protect the customer and the plant. To earn this award, you must meet strict QPR aligned criteria over the full award year, which sets you apart as leaders in the supply base.

2025 SQEA performance was up 22% across the globe and 23% in GM North America, which includes US, Canada and Mexico. With this performance our 2025 QPR results showed measurable gains across key quality indicators compared with the prior year.

Nearly 52% of our suppliers are at a QPR 5, which is a new end of year QPR record. Globally, we saw SPPS’s and Safety SPPS’s drop by 25% and 31% respectively. We saw a downward trend in the frequency and severity of high-impact problems, which is exactly what we expected to see; QPR directly correlates to supplier performance. This is tangible proof that the work you’re doing within your four walls, and managing your sub-tiers, is changing our risk profile. In closing, your performance raised the bar from what we expect from our entire supply base.

We’re proud to celebrate what you achieved in 2025, and we are even more excited about what we can accomplish together going forward. Thank you and again congratulation.

ED TOWARNICKY — Senior Manager, Supplier Quality Global Launch (launch excellence)

Ed: Congratulations on being awarded the 2025 Supplier Quality Excellence Award. My name is Ed Towarnicky, and I am the GM Global Supplier Quality Launch Manager for both vehicles and propulsions. With your help in 2025, GM’s global operations delivered financial and sales performance, resulting in numerous awards in a challenging environment. This has helped position GM for success in 2026.

Let me highlight just a few of our 2025 successes. From a performance market ranking, the US was number one in total sales, leading in full size trucks and SUVs, and number two in EVs. Canada was number 1 in total sales for a third straight year and Mexico held the number two position with double digit margins.

In the turnaround and growth markets China increased retail sales and market share, the only major traditional global OEM to gain share there in 2025. Brazil, Egypt, Argentina and Korea all recorded notable share or volume gains.

Including 154% year-over-year sales growth in Egypt, driven by the locally built Chevrolet Optra. And record escalade sales in Korea, supported by Super Cruise on the Escalade IQ. As I mentioned, this strong performance resulted in numerous awards four our GM vehicles. Just to name a few, Cars and Driver’s 10Best awards recognized GM for the Cadillac CT4 and 5 V Blackwing. The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray an E Ray, which also won several other awards last year, the Chevrolet Trax, Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, and the GMC Yukon and Yukon XL. That’s a wide range of segments price points, and pure excellence recognized by the editors. In the SUV category, Top Gear awarded LYRIQ-V it SUV of the year, and the LYRIQ was a finalist for one of the most prestigious awards for the year, the MotorTrend SUV of the Year. The Cadillac LYRIQ was beaten out for MotorTrend SUV of the Year award by the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

The IQ competed against 40 other SUVs. MotorTrend called the Escalade IQ quote: a moment, a monument, a milestone not only for Cadillac but for vehicles in general. So, what’s in store for 2026?

Well, we have numerous launches across the globe this year. Light Duty Pickup launches later in ’26 and 2027. This starts with new Gen6 Gas and Diesel engines. These engines will be going into the T1-2 and Corvette programs.

And over a six-month period starting later this year, we will be launching Light Duty Pickup T1-2s at three assembly plants, along with a Mid-Cycle Propulsion Major for our Heavy-Duty Pickup Truck. This is where our award-winning supply base is at its best, and we need you to do your best once again.

Delivering a quality part on time, every time, and at rate. Your ability to deliver Full PPAP on time, with minimal to no disruption to our assembly center and at the rate we need, while effectively managing your Tier 2s, 3s and 4s.

Along with an ever-changing global business landscape is a main reason why you are receiving the supplier Quality Excellence Award. Congratulations on a fantastic 2025, and we all look forward to a great 2026.