The car maker Mercedes-Benz continued to have the weakness in the important market in the past quarter China get to feel. The DAX group sold a total of 453,700 cars, 9 percent less than in the same period last year, as the Stuttgarters announced on Monday. Mercedes sold almost a fifth fewer cars in the People’s Republic.
Also in the USA the paragraph of the group went back against the background of the US import tariffs. However, the company reported a solid customer demand in the USA and increasing delivery figures to end customers. The key figure sales measure the sale of the group’s cars to the dealers.
In China, the Swabians have been suffering from the purchase of wealthy Chinese for a long time, in which the money in the real estate crisis in the country is no longer so relaxed. With the expensive top-end models, particularly in the focus of CEO Ola Källenius, Mercedes also had to take a damper by 8 percent in sales. The cars around S and G-Class as well as the sub-brands Maybach and AMG are the most profitable of the car division. With the delivery van (Vans), sales fell 10 percent in the second quarter.
In the first half of the year, Mercedes has a minus of 8 percent to 1.08 million vehicles for cars and vans. Especially the electric cars in the car division weaken almost a fifth with a decline.