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...GBA’s nearly 200 members include large companies from a range of sectors, including Nestlé USA, AstraZeneca, Diageo, Mercedes-Benz, Panasonic, Sony Corporation of America and chipmaker TSMC....
...Steve Jobs drove a Mercedes-Benz but there was an equally accidental quality to how Apple came up with its original pricing policy of charging developers a 30 per cent fee to sell apps in its store....
...Cutting ties with China would be “unthinkable for almost all of German industry”, the chief executive of automaker Mercedes-Benz has said, as Europe’s largest economy grapples with its deep reliance on Beijing...
...The president of the VDA, which counts Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz as members, said she feared an exodus of German small and midsized suppliers....
...The president of the VDA, which counts Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz as members, said she was fearing an exodus of German small and midsized suppliers....
...That would offer a lifeline to the German car industry, which is home to auto giants such as Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz and generates about a fifth of the country’s industrial revenues....
...Pointing to the inroads it has made even in Europe’s luxury car markets, Lutz says: “This is why Mercedes-Benz and BMW are so afraid of him.”...
...The trucking arm of the Mercedes-Benz owner sells half a million units a year, earning $40bn in revenue in 2019....
...However, it said Mercedes-Benz USA had not notified all the affected customers quickly enough....
...Last week, Volkswagen brand Audi and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler axed 20,000 roles in total, citing the costs of investing in electric vehicles and reduced profits....
...The Mercedes-Benz owner had come to the Texan capital to launch its car-sharing brand Car2Go: an app-based, by-the-minute rental service, which it told investors would usher in “a new form of urban mobility...
...Mercedes-Benz and BMW each sold more than 2m cars around the world last year. Lexus sales were less than a third of that. Even in Japan, German brands sell well. There, new car sales continue to slow....
...Among other big carmakers, Toyota Research Institute said its drivers had to take control once every 2.5 miles, while Mercedes-Benz put the figure at once every 1.5 miles....
...Geely, the Chinese carmaker and largest shareholder in Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler, has warned profits for the first half of this year will fall by 40 per cent due to a cooling car market in China....
...Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler on Thursday announced a major restructuring designed to better “tackle the rapid pace of change” as the car industry grapples with new competitors in the shift to shared, electric...
...Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler said it will spend €20bn on battery cells over the next decade, to meet its ambitious target to electrify its entire product line....
...Mercedes-Benz made a similar claim last week, saying their sales in 2017 had climbed by 9.9 per cent 2.29m....
...The only sizeable negotiation so far in 2018 was Geely’s unsolicited $9bn investment in Germany’s Daimler, the owner of Mercedes-Benz....
...That was the question for analysts and investors on Friday after a US class-action lawsuit claimed that Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, deceived customers with “Clean Diesel” vehicles that allegedly...
...General Motors, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover told the Financial Times that all their diesels in the US market used urea....
...More than two dozen diesel car models made by BMW, Chrysler, General Motors, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz are under scrutiny as the US regulator that exposed Volkswagen’s rigging of emissions tests probes...
...Transport & Environment said that several models from the German brand — including the Mercedes-Benz A-class hatchback and the C-class and E-class saloons — were found to produce carbon dioxide emissions...
...The US offerings were joined by a $4.5bn debt offering from the European Investment Bank and a €3.25bn deal from Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler, among other global deals, according to Dealogic....
Shares in sector slide as Germany calls for probe into whether ‘defeat devices’ used on other brands
...Premium-car manufacturers such as Volkswagen unit Audi, BMW, Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover all operate joint venture factories in China with local partners....
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