Mercedes-Benz Group AG (pronounced" /m participant "(
listen)) formerly Daimler, is a German multinational automotive company based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. Daimler-Benz was formed with the merger of Benz Cie and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in 1926. The company was renamed DaimlerChrysler when it acquired the American car manufacturer Chrysler Corporation in 1998 and was renamed Daimler after the sale of Chrysler in 2007. In February 2022, Daimler became the Mercedes-Benz Group.
Since 2014, Daimler has owned several brands of passenger cars and vans, including Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-AMG, Mercedes-Maybach, Mercedes-EQ, Smart Automobile, as well as holding shares in Beijing Automotive Group. The Maybach luxury brand was canceled in late 2012, but was revived in April 2015 as "Mercedes-Maybach" versions of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and G-Class. By unit of sales, Daimler is the 13th largest car manufacturer. Daimler provides financial services through its mobility and financial services division Daimler Mobility. The company is a constituent of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. The company had a market capitalization of approximately $85.7 billion at the start of 2018. The Daimler AG complex in Stuttgart includes the company's headquarters, automobile factories Mercedes-Benz and Daimler, the Mercedes-Benz Museum and the Mercedes-Benz Arena.
Mercedes-Benz
The history of Mercedes-Benz dates back to 1885, when Gottlieb Daimler, together with Wilhelm Maybach, patented a four-stroke engine, just as Karl Benz was developing the single-cylinder engine, also called a four-stroke, and founding the &# 34;Benz & Co". A year later, in 1886 the Daimler - Motoren - Gesellschaft (DMG) manufactured its first vehicle.
Timeline
- In 1900 Gottlieb Daimler died.
- In 1902 the brand “Mercedes” was registered, a name that emerged since the consul of Austria in Nice, Emil Jellinek, entered his car Daimler in the first race of Nice (1898). The car won successive races, and he was painted on the hood the name of his daughter Mercedes.
- In 1906 the first commercial representation of Daimler was opened in Spain, in the Madrid street of Conde de Peñalver, 25.
- In 1909 the Daimler - Motoren - Gesellschaft adopts the three-pointed star as a symbol, and in that same year the Karl Benz takes the crown of laurel and the Benz rubric as a factory mark.
- In 1924, companies founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz joined together, forming the “Daimler-Benz AG” and their products take the Mercedes-Benz brand.
- In 1929 Karl Benz and Wilhelm Maybach died.
- In 1981 the Daimler-Benz AG acquires the American Freightliner Trucks.
- In 1998 the Daimler-Benz AG merged with the Chrysler Corporation to become DaimlerChrysler AG.
- On May 15, 2007, the company announced the sale of Chrysler to the Cerberus company of Investment Funds.
- On April 17, 2013, Daimler AG leaves EADS, the relative company of Airbus de Europe.
- On June 27, 2014, the company announced a commercial agreement with the Renault-Nissan alliance for the construction of Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti cars in Mexico, as well as announcing the construction of a new plant in the city of Aguascalientes in Mexico.
Daimler AG factories
Cars
Mercedes-Benz
Smart
| Location
| City
| From
| Outputs
| Comments
| Employees
|
|---|
 France
| Hambach
| 1997
| - Smart electric bike
- Smart Fortwo
- Smart Fortwo electric drive
- Smart Forfour
- Smart Forfour elecrtic drive
| | 822
|
Maybach
| Location
| City
| From
| Outputs
| Comments
| Employees
|
|---|
 Germany
| Sindelfingen
| 1915
| | - Shared factory with Mercedes-Benz
- In the number of workers are not included those who work in R & D
| 26.414
|
Commercial Vehicles
Trucks
Mercedes-Benz Trucks
| Location
| City
| From
| Outputs
| Comments
| Employees
|
|---|
| Germany
| Stuttgart
| 1904
| | Factory shared with Mercedes Benz Cars
| 17.690
|
| Germany
| Rastatt
| 1894
| - Motors
- Axis
- Transmissions
- Components
- Moldes
- Global distribution and logistics centre
| Gaggenau is the oldest automotive factory in the world and provides parts and components to the other Daimler group factories
| 6.212
|
| Germany
| Kassel
| 1810
| | | 2.893
|
| Germany
| Mannheim
| 1908
| | | 5.062
|
| Germany
| Wörth
| 1963
| - Actress
- Axor
- Atego
- Econic
- Unimog
- Zetros
| | 11.645
|
 Argentina
| Buenos Aires
| 1951
| | |
 Portugal
| Tramagal
| 1980
| Offices
| | 380
|
| France
| Molsheim
| 1967
| Special vehicles
| | 560
|
 Turkey
| Aksaray
| 1986
| - Engineering Centre
- Atego
- Axor
- Actress
- Unimog
| | 1.637
|
 Brazil
| Juiz de Fora
| 1999
| | | 870
|
 China
| Beijing
| 2011
| - R & D+I Center
- Production of medium and heavy trucks.
| Production under the Auman brand
| 5.900
|
 South Africa
| Dassenberg
| | Foundry
| | 1.172
|
Western Star Trucks & Thomas Built Buses
| Location
| City
| From
| Outputs
| Comments
| Employees
|
|---|
 United States
| Cleveland
| 1989
| - Century Class S/T
- Columbia, Classic, Classic XL and Argosy.
| | 1.457
|
| United States
| Gaffney
| 1995
| - Chasis
- Motors
- School of commercial and school abutobuses
| | 480
|
| United States
| Logan Township
| | Offices
| | 95
|
| United States
| Gastonia
| 1978
| - Forja
- Printed
- Cabins
- Chasis
- Logistics Centre
| | 1.160
|
| United States
| High Point
| 1916
| - Operator Training Centre
- R & D+I Center
| | 1,200
|
| United States
| Mount Holly
| 1979
| Fire trucks
| | 1,500
|
| United States
| Portland
| 1942
| | | 1.962
|
| United States
| Portland
| 1942
| - Western Star models 4700, 4800, 4900 and 6900
- Military trucks.
| | 1,000
|
| United States
| Detroit
| 1938
| | | 2.200
|
Freightliner Trucks
| Location
| City
| From
| Outputs
| Comments
| Employees
|
|---|
 Mexico
| Saltillo
| 2008
| Freightliner Cascadia Class 8
| | 4.700
|
| Mexico
| Santiago Tianguistenco
| 1981
| - Freightliner's Business Class M2
- Freightliner's FLD Series
- Freightliner's Class Century, Columbia and Coronado
| | 2.080
|
| Mexico
| Toluca
| | Packing engines, transmissions and components.
| | 170
|
Bharat Benz Trucks
| Location
| City
| From
| Outputs
| Comments
| Employees
|
|---|
 India
| Chennai
| 2012
| - R & D+I Center
- Test centre
- Production of light, medium and heavy trucks.
| | 1,200
|
Mitsubishi Fuso Trucks & Buses
| Location
| City
| From
| Outputs
| Comments
| Employees
|
|---|
 Japan
| Kanagawa
| 1990
| Design and manufacture of Chasis
| | 430
|
| Japan
| Kanagawa
| 1943
| - R & D centre in hybrid technology
- Motors
- Industrial motors
- Axis
- Transmissions
- Production of light, medium and heavy trucks.
| | 3.200
|
| Japan
| Tochigi
| 1980
| Test centre
| | 539
|
| Japan
| Kanagawa
| 1975
| Components
| | 170
|
| Japan
| Toyama
| 1950
| - Engineering Centre
- Bus launch
| | 600
|
Daimler Buses
| Location
| City
| From
| Outputs
| Comments
| Employees
|
|---|
| Germany
| Dortmund
| 1998
| Minibuses
| | 249
|
| Germany
| Mannheim
| 1908
| Painting and assembly
| | 3.515
|
| Germany
| Neu-Ulm
| 1991
| Painting and assembly
| | 3.765
|
| France
| Ligny-en-Barrois
| 1981
| Ensambling final
| | 406
|
 Spain
| Sámano
| 1998
| Chassis shrapnel
| | 261
|
 Czech Republic
| Holýšov
| 1998
| Components
| | 407
|
| Turkey
| Istanbul
| 1995
| Painting and assembly
| | 3.888
|
| India
| Pune
| 2009
| Ensambling final
| | 23
|
 Indonesia
| Gunung Putri
| 1982
| Ensambling final
| | 145
|
| Mexico
| Monterrey
| 1994
| Ensambling final
| | 362
|
| Brazil
| São Bernardo do Campo
| 1956
| - Motors
- Change funds
- Transmissions
- Ensambling final
| | 1.217
|
| Argentina
| Buenos Aires
| 1951
| - Chasis
- Axis
- Ensambling final
| | 94
|
| South Africa
| East London
| 1948
| Chasis
| | 34
|
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