LEINFELDEN-ECHTERDINGEN (dpa-AFX) - The truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck sold significantly fewer commercial vehicles last year. Sales worldwide fell by 12 percent to 460,409 vehicles, as the Dax-listed company announced on Tuesday in Leinfelden-Echterdingen. The worst performance for the Swabians was in the long-ailing truck markets of Europe and Asia, where sales fell by around a fifth in each case. In North America, which is the most profitable region for Daimler Trucks, truck sales only fell by 2 percent. The company even managed to achieve a slight increase in bus sales worldwide. The group recorded an increase of 17 percent to 4,035 vehicles in sales of battery-electric vehicles./men/stk
Daimler Truck Holding AG is specialized in designing, manufacturing and marketing trucks and buses. The activity is organized around 4 areas:
- medium and heavy truck sales: Mercedes-Benz, Fuso, Freightliner, Western Star and BharatBenz brands;
- bus and coach sales: Thomas Built, Fuso, BharatBenz, Mercedes-Benz and Setra brands;
- bus chassis sales: Thomas Built and Mercedes-Benz brands.
- financial services: financing, leasing, insurance brokerage, etc.
In addition, the group owns 50% of BFDA, a company specialized in manufacturing trucks under the Auman brand.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (11.3%), Europe (18.7%), the United States (37.7%), North America (9.5%), Japan (6.1%), Asia (5.1%), Latin America (7.9%) and other (3.7%).
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