Hints and tips:
...The biggest obstacles are cultural, as demonstrated by the disastrous DaimlerChrysler pact in 1998. A repeat should be avoided. No deal would be better than a bad deal....
...In Indonesia as well as Myanmar and Cambodia, whose automobile markets have high growth potential, Mitsubishi Corp is a sales partner....
...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....
...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...
...Payments on the preferred stock – held by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Corp and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ – hindered the carmaker’s ability to pay a dividend on its ordinary shares....
...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....
...We also included case examples of change leaders such as Jack Welch of GE, Lou Gerstner of IBM and Rolf Eckrodt of DaimlerChrysler-Mitsubishi....
...The UK government could block the deal and insist on BAE finding a British solution, akin to the outcome in 1999 when British Aerospace merged with Marconi rather than DaimlerChrysler Aerospace....
...Asean foreign ministers meeting in Phnom Penh, 3 days 12th Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan Kenya reveals March inflation figures South Africa publishes monthly PMI figures Eurasian Natural Resources Corp shareholder...
...The company’s Stuttgart engineers were reluctant to work with their US partners, and DaimlerChrysler separated in 2007....
...Mr Glocer trained as an acquisitions lawyer, and studied the history of failed deals, from AOL-Time Warner to DaimlerChrysler, concluding that cultural rifts were usually their downfall....
...DaimlerChrysler agreed to contribute its 19.9% post buyout stake in exchange for legal indemnity, said the second analyst....
...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....
...It has depended on financial support from other companies in the Mitsubishi group since its alliance with the former DaimlerChrysler fell apart in 2004....
...Peugeot has traditionally shunned full-blown alliances with competitors in favour of partnerships on single vehicles and technologies, as has Mitsubishi since its ill-fated partnership with DaimlerChrysler...
...Companies involved include Deutsche Bank, BASF, SAP, DaimlerChrysler, Lufthansa, IBM, ABB and EADS....
...Another blow to cross-border business was the unravelling in 2007 of the DaimlerChrysler merger after nine fraught years. EADS itself has been a fractious Franco-German entity....
...One of the main reasons why DaimlerChrysler based itself in Germany rather than the US after its 1998 merger (subsequently unwound) was that Germany exempted foreign profits from tax....
...DaimlerChrysler and BMW are threatening legal action over Chinese-made vehicles that they claim are copies of their own models....
...DaimlerChrysler, Fiat, General Motors and Toyota must provide more information about their models to independent car repair businesses to encourage competition, the European Commission ruled Friday....
...DaimlerChrysler is to buy back up to €7.5bn ($10.2bn) of its shares in the next year in the latest in a series of shareholder-friendly actions from the German carmaker....
...Bankers have started hawking $62bn in debt for Chrysler, the US carmaker that Cerberus, the private equity group, last month agreed to buy from DaimlerChrysler....
...DaimlerChrysler, whose trucks group is the world’s largest, owns 85 per cent of Fuso, Japan’s second-largest truckmaker....
...The companies, which have a small market share of the global truck industry compared with industry groups DaimlerChrysler and Volvo, on Monday announced plans for joint developments in heavy-duty trucks...
...DaimlerChrysler and Cerberus denied there was a problem....
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