The car maker Daimler has increased in spite of the debates on the Diesel-manipulation, and driving bans more vigorously. Does not react to the new antitrust allegations of the group.
The car maker Daimler has scored in the second quarter of record sales. The group recorded from April to June, sales of 41.2 billion euros and was thus seven per cent over the same quarter last year, Daimler announced on Wednesday. In the past quarter, Daimler sold worldwide 822.500 passenger Cars and commercial vehicles. This is an increase of eight per cent, and is also a best value to the paragraph. The consolidated financial result improved slightly to EUR 2.5 billion.
Daimler has thus defended its Position as the biggest premium manufacturer in the world in front of BMW. However, the success is overshadowed by the diesel fraud and antitrust allegations. The Prosecutor’s office to determine whether, in Mercedes-Benz, the exhaust gas cleaning similar to that of Volkswagen has been tampered with. In addition, the EU is examining Commission, whether Daimler with the other German manufacturers, Volkswagen and BMW met since the 1990s in a big way illegal agreements on their vehicles. An Insider, according to Daimler had been before the VW the antitrust suspicion to the authorities. So the car could run out of farmer from Stuttgart as a key witness criminal free.
The group remains silent
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To not want this charge, the Stuttgart-based group continues to Express. “We would be well advised not to participate in speculation,” said chief Executive Dieter Zetsche on Wednesday. For the existing cooperations with other manufacturers in the reports from his point of view meant nothing. The calls were made in the existing legal framework. The “mirror” had reported on a possibly for many years, existing alleged cartel in the VW, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Daimler, technology, cost, and supplier agreed to have. The other manufacturers remain silent.
The antitrust suspicion against German car maker will not lead to the Ifo President, Clemens Fuest, to a decline in sales. “All of these companies produce in spite of everything, Yes good cars”, – said the head of the Munich Institute for economic research (Ifo) on Wednesday, in the Bavarian broadcasting. “The goods must have been in the past, although maybe a bit more expensive for the consumer than you, but the car sales is not threatened directly.” Also after the exhaust gas scandal at Volkswagen, the sale is on there good.
The reputation of the manufacturer Fuest, however, damaged: “Very interesting is the effect on the financial markets, as the car dropped shares to a total of about ten billion,” the expert says. Potential penalties and compensation could cope with the corporations. “They have made good profits in the past and would be able to pay. These are very large companies that can also carry high loads.”
zdh/ul (rtr, dpa, afp)