Mercedes Benz Jason Hoff has appointed the newly created North America boss. Hoff, currently head of the quality management of Mercedes-Benz Cars & Vans, is thus in the strategic direction of the car manufacturer in the USA be responsible, as Mercedes-Benz announced on Tuesday. “This new position will ensure continuous growth and increased synergies in the United States by bundling our activities and subsidiaries under one roof,” said Ola Källenius (55), CEO of the Mercedes-Benz Group.
The United States is the second largest market for Mercedes-Benz, the focus is on strengthening. The car manufacturer sold 324,500 cars and 49,600 vans in the USA last year. More could be localized in the Alabama plant to prepare for US tariffs, as CFO Harald Wilhelm (58) said last month. SUV models are mainly built in the system.
Billion -dollar savings program
Despite Burglaries and billions of billions of savings programs CEO Källenius received a double -digit million content in the past year. The Mercedes boss only had to accept a 2 percent discount and came up with a remuneration of 12.49 million euros, as can be seen from the remuneration report published on Tuesday.
Although the Stuttgart car manufacturer shortly shortened the performance bonus for 2024, the Swede native received significantly more long-term bonuses for the years before. At the Annual General Meeting on May 7, a new remuneration system is to be coordinated. Mercedes-Benz is currently working on a savings program weighing five billion.
Also Volkswagen– and Porsche-The boss Oliver Blume (56) will benefit the success of success for the past few years. His “granted and owed remuneration”, including the pension commitments, therefore rose by 6.6 percent to 10.35 million euros in 2024.
All Volkswagen board members had no 5 percent of the basic salary, and at Blume it was 65,000 euros. In this and next year, the Volkswagen board members will forego 11 percent of their total remuneration as a contribution to the savings program, as a spokesman for the Supervisory Board said.