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...Mercedes-Benz, by contrast, made 12 per cent. A favourite hobby of hedge funds is to draw up a list of which carmakers are most vulnerable in the long run. VW is frequently the top pick....
...A western artillery system is like a “Mercedes-Benz” compared with a Russian Soviet-era car, but Nato-grade weaponry has also shown its own shortcomings, according to Petro Pyatakov, an arms industry consultant...
...Lars Pauly, who spent three decades at Mercedes-Benz but now oversees German imports of BYD cars, says Chinese carmakers would not have been able to take on incumbents in combustion engines “where the European...
...The suggestion that BMW may fold the entire brand into a joint venture with Great Wall echoes Mercedes-Benz’s decision to cede control of its Smart brand to China’s Geely, also a major Mercedes shareholder...
...Faced with a chronic shortage of semiconductors due to the Covid-19 pandemic, manufacturers prioritised production of higher-end vehicles, helping the likes of Mercedes-Benz and VW post bumper profits despite...
...In an interview with a local broadcaster in 2015, Xiang recalled a revelation he had during a business trip to Germany in 1992: BMW and Mercedes-Benz didn’t outsource their doors and windows — they made...
...Their backgrounds are in fashion — they headed Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine — but their base in California and a fascination with augmented reality and digital spheres lead to the concept...
...Mercedes-Benz ceased passenger car production not long before (though it still builds trucks), while brands including Sony and Canon have also ended operations....
...greening the Common Agricultural Policy The European Commission puts forward stricter guidance on the spread of online disinformation Notable, Quotable A range of leading European companies, including Mercedes-Benz...
...He filled in his time by running his own successful boutique investment firm in New York, with blue-chip clients including Mercedes-Benz and Ralph Lauren....
...Plus non-limited-edition cars can be extremely affordable; a Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, for example, can be had for £15,000, against £100,000 when new in the early 2000s....
...Automotive companies — even premium marques such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz-owner Daimler — measure their sales in millions. JLR last year sold just 500,000 cars....
...Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler has named Airbus financial head Harald Wilhelm as its new chief financial officer, following the resignation announcement last October of Bodo Uebber....
...At a glitzy ceremony attended by the carmaker’s top brass this month, Vladimir Putin opened a Mercedes-Benz factory an hour’s drive north of Moscow and predicted that his fellow citizens would snap up the...
...At last, concerns that this natural salesperson lacked technical competence when he was given the task two years ago of overseeing the research and development team at Daimler-owned Mercedes-Benz seem to...
...Daimler, the parent of carmaker Mercedes-Benz, cleverly calls them the “Space Cowboys” — after the 2000 Clint Eastwood film in which a group of retired astronauts are called back to rescue a satellite....
...When the event was over, I used an app to order a shared taxi from ViaVan, jointly owned by Mercedes-Benz Vans....
...He earned the nickname “Iceman” for his coolness when working at Vauxhall dealerships before rising to become head of the Mercedes-Benz network in his native UK....
...Last month, Mr Hilburger’s union, Zentrum Automobil, won six of 47 seats on the works council of Daimler’s iconic factory in Untertürkheim, where Mercedes-Benz cars are made, with 13.2 per cent of the vote...
...This year Mercedes-Benz staged the first Fashion Weekend Ibiza, held in early July at the Ushuaïa Tower as an adjunct to the main Madrid week, with shows by Spanish brands Desigual, Andrés Sardá, Teresa...
...Daimler reported that Mercedes-Benz sold more SUVs than a year ago, which accounted for 33.1 per cent of sales, up against 31.8 per cent a year ago, while Swedish carmaker Volvo said that SKr566m (£49.6m...
...It is 26 years old, provides market leading software for leasing companies — including Bank of America and Mercedes-Benz — and has been growing revenues at 20 per cent....
...After a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which went on sale in 2003, McLaren Automotive was launched in 2010, producing small volumes of supercars to rival Ferrari and Aston...
...Daimler said the factory will build four-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines for its Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and create “several hundred jobs”....
...For Mercedes-Benz, the car park becomes a media channel. “The Blippar logo is on 12bn products across 1,000 brands on three continents,” he says. That is how Blippar makes its money....
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