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...But unlike the clash of cultures and products that dogged DaimlerChrysler and other mergers, the problem at Bayer is simple....
...Think of the disastrous DaimlerChrysler deal, although Fiat Chrysler has worked better. Local politics encumber Volkswagen. Both groups have powerful family shareholders. There are antitrust concerns....
...We are not Praxair-Linde, like you see with LafargeHolcim, DaimlerChrysler, and so on.”...
...Its partnership with the former DaimlerChrysler fell apart in 2004, and it was bailed out in the same year by other companies in the Mitsubishi group after a vehicle-safety scandal....
...DaimlerChrysler was a “merger of equals” and it seems Mr Suri has learnt the lessons of history well. sarah.gordon@ft.com...
...Mr Zetsche, known for his extravagant silver moustache, took over as head of Daimler in 2006, having been chief executive of Chrysler, then part of the merged DaimlerChrysler group....
...The study said the real breakthrough in gay employee rights happened in 2000 when the three large car manufacturers, General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler, announced they would extend partner benefits...
...When Jürgen Schrempp announced he was resigning as chief executive of DaimlerChrysler, in July 2005, investors reacted with such exuberant relief that the carmaker’s share price rose 10 per cent in a day...
...Dieter Zetsche appeared confident and relaxed at last month’s Detroit motor show, a city where he is still known affectionately as “Dr Z” from his days running DaimlerChrysler....
...He was chairman of DaimlerChrysler when their $38bn, nine-year deal fell apart, rupturing what was at the time the world’s biggest cross-border accord....
...When DaimlerChrysler, then one of its biggest shareholders, decided not to provide more funds, sister companies within the Mitsubishi group rescued the carmaker by taking up almost Y400bn in preferred shares...
...In October 2002, 25 blue-chip German companies, including Allianz, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank and Siemens, pledged funds to establish the European School for Management in Technology (ESMT)....
...The company’s Stuttgart engineers were reluctant to work with their US partners, and DaimlerChrysler separated in 2007....
...publishes minutes of its March meeting Kenya to holds monetary policy committee meeting Slovak’s new parliament to hold its first session Polish central bank holds a rate-setting meeting Monsanto earnings DaimlerChrysler...
...Company Accounting Oversight Board, which regulates US auditors; Sir Richard Lambert, former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, the UK employers’ body; and Klaus Mangold, a former DaimlerChrysler...
...and the former Financial Times’ editor joins the auditor alongside Mark Olson, a former chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which regulates US auditors, and Klaus Mangold, a former DaimlerChrysler...
...Before joining what was then DaimlerChrysler in 2002, Mr Jones was UK managing director of Germany’s DAF Trucks, the country’s largest seller of heavy commercial vehicles....
...Hair of the dog In May 2007, Cerberus bought an 80.1% equity interest in Chrysler Holding LLC, while existing owner DaimlerChrysler AG held on to the remaining minority interest....
...It has depended on financial support from other companies in the Mitsubishi group since its alliance with the former DaimlerChrysler fell apart in 2004....
...In an unhappy tie-up earlier this decade, the former DaimlerChrysler, with 37 per cent, constantly rubbed up against Mitsubishi Corp, Mitsubishi Heavy and Mitsubishi UFJ, with a similar combined share....
...The DaimlerChrysler marriage was similar. Billed as a “merger of equals”, it evolved into a takeover of Chrysler by Daimler-Benz....
...The problems, of course, are legion – as DaimlerChrysler’s brief history exposed. But more serious still is whether Mr Marchionne is the man for the job....
...The Frankfurt-based Börse’s board is due to meet Monday to elect a new chairman, widely expected to be former DaimlerChrysler finance chief Manfred Gentz....
...Frankfurt-based Deutsche Börse’s board is due to meet on Monday to elect a new chairman, widely expected to be former DaimlerChrysler finance chief Manfred Gentz....
...Sasol also said on Monday it had appointed Jürgen Schrempp, the former DaimlerChrysler chief executive, as “lead independent director’’ to chair the board on matters including oil....
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