Daimler-Benz introduced convertible bonds in 1996 and has continued to develop variable compensation packages.
Daimler-Benz's profits powered ahead as the German car-maker demonstrated revenue growth in all its divisions.
Daimler-Benz may be hoping that the project will fall apart of its own accord.
When they merged, Daimler-Benz and Chrysler said that together they would create tremendous synergies.
Like 25 years ago, Daimler-Benz and BMW had the courage to come to China.
He spent his last months at Daimler-Benz nurturing an internal research project called Megatrends.
The 1998 takeover of Chrysler by Daimler-Benz was a disaster in its first six years.
Magna's tight links to Daimler-Benz may well cause BMW to pull its long-standing drive-train work from Steyr.
Then came the takeover of Chrysler by Daimler-Benz and the all-but-acquisition of Nissan by Renault last year.
DASA, the aerospace part of Daimler-Benz (now DaimlerChrysler), but his chairman Sir Richard Evans had other ideas.
Cerberus' purchase of Chrysler ended the automaker's nine-year, cross-cultural marriage with Germany's Daimler-Benz.
Sustained profitability has been elusive for Chrysler in the nearly six years since it was acquired by Germany's Daimler-Benz.
The merger of Chrysler and Daimler-Benz was motivated by the enormous excess auto capacity -- worldwide, probably 20 million units.
In the 1990s, for instance, Kerkorian became Chrysler's largest shareholder and helped push the automaker into a merger with Germany's Daimler-Benz.
Germany's Daimler-Benz and Japan's Nissan Diesel are creating a joint venture to make light commercial vehicles in Japan for developing markets.
After his experiences with Fokker, which cost Daimler-Benz DM2.3 billion, this is perhaps the most unpalatable project for the born-again Daimler chairman.
The billion-dollar minivan joint venture, for which Daimler-Benz fought tooth and nail with its rivals, Ford and Chrysler, remains on the table.
Bosses at other companies have looked on enviously as Germany's big car firms, especially Daimler-Benz, have prospered after having wielded the knife.
Watch what happens to the car companies that imitate Daimler-Benz and Chrysler.
Among them is Daimler-Benz, which exports cars and trucks from American plants.
Daimler-Benz (as it was until its merger with Chrysler) was the first.
One other automaker that would have been mentioned in the same breath as Ford and GM, until its merger with Daimler-Benz, is Chrysler.
"In the first six months of this year Daimler-Benz achieved the best result in the history of the company, " said chairman Juergen Schrempp.
The roadster is the first child of the merger five years ago between Chrysler and Daimler-Benz--and a test of whether the promised synergies work.
Led by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian , the shareholders claim Daimler-Benz misrepresented the merger of Chrysler as a "merger of equals" in 1998.
The driver of a Smart Car is ahead of his time, the Daimler-Benz mantra declares, and people want to be associated with environmentally friendly products.
An attempt by Mercedes-Benz (the car arm of Daimler-Benz) to forge a joint venture foundered in 1995, but the executives got to know each other.
Chrysler, for instance, is no longer part of the multinational Daimler-Benz.
But its real coup was its work with Daimler-Benz, which helped the car maker to gain the upper hand in its 1998 merger with Chrysler.
In April 1993 a handsome lawyer named Ulrich Hartmann was named chief executive of Veba AG, Germany's fourth- largest industrial combine (after Daimler-Benz, Siemens and Volkswagen).
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