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Leadership
With A Standard.
American Bantam® is the company that built America’s first compact pickup trucks and invented the Jeep. Here’s who’s building it again.
Leadership
Building American Bantam®
Again.
Charles D. Paglee serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Bantam Car Corp.
He leads the company through its reorganization of the American Bantam® brand and trademark, and through the design, engineering, and assembly of its next generation of vehicles.
Under his leadership, American Bantam is rebuilding around one non-negotiable commitment: American steel, American assembly.
When a company’s name contains the word American, the products they sell in the USA must be built in the USA. No two ways about it.– Charlie Paglee, Chairman & CEO, American Bantam®
The Mandate
American Steel.
American Assembly.
Paglee’s mandate for the company is resolute: every American Bantam® vehicle sold in the United States will be assembled in the United States by American workers. It will stay that way as the company scales.
American Bantam Invented The Jeep.
American Bantam Is Building Again.
American steel. American assembly.
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