STUTTGART, Germany, Feb. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ —
- Extension of the contract for five years until December 31, 2024
- Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG: “We are very happy to continue working with Britta Seeger. She is leading Marketing and Sales of Mercedes-Benz Cars with great success. In the past year, Mercedes-Benz Cars achieved another sales record in a challenging environment. The Mercedes-Benz brand is once again at the top of the global premium segment. A key function in the Group is Marketing and Sales at Mercedes-Benz Cars as the most important link between the company and the customer. Britta Seeger is setting important strategic guideposts on the way to future retail and driving forward digitization, to offer our customers the best overall package.”
At its meeting today, the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG extended the contract of Britta Seeger (49), in the Board of Management of Daimler AG responsible for Marketing and Sales of Mercedes-Benz Cars, until December 31, 2024.
“We are very happy to continue working with Britta Seeger. She is leading Marketing and Sales of Mercedes-Benz Cars with great success. In the past year, Mercedes-Benz Cars achieved another sales record in a challenging environment. The Mercedes-Benz brand is once again at the top of the global premium segment. A key function in the Group is Marketing and Sales at Mercedes-Benz Cars as the most important link between the company and the customer. Britta Seeger is setting important strategic guideposts on the way to future retail and driving forward digitization, to offer our customers the best overall package.”
Since January 1, 2017, Britta Seeger is responsible for Marketing and Sales of Mercedes-Benz Cars in the Board of Management of Daimler AG. Her previous contract will expire in December 2019.
Mercedes-Benz increased its global passenger car unit sales to 2,310,185 units in 2018 (+0.9%) and is already the third time in a row the best-selling premium brand in the automotive industry. Mercedes-Benz Cars with the Mercedes-Benz and smart brands again recorded a sales record with 2,438,987 (+0.4%) vehicles.
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Daimler at a Glance
Daimler AG is one of the world’s most successful automotive companies. With its divisions Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler Trucks, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Daimler Buses and Daimler Financial Services, the Daimler Group is one of the biggest producers of premium cars and the world’s largest producer of trucks above 6 tons. Daimler Financial Services provides financing, leasing, fleet management, investment products and brokerage of credit cards and insurance, as well as innovative mobility services. The company’s founders, Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, made history with the invention of the automobile in the year 1886. As a pioneer of automotive engineering, it is a motivation and commitment of Daimler to shape safely and sustainably the future of mobility: The Group’s focus is on innovative and green technologies as well as on safe and superior automobiles that appeal and fascinate. Daimler consequently invests in the development of efficient drive trains with the long-term goal of locally emission-free driving: from hightech combustion engines about hybrid vehicles to electric drive trains powered by battery or fuel cell. Furthermore, the company follows a consistent path towards intelligent connectivity of its vehicles, autonomous driving and new mobility concepts. This is just one example of how Daimler willingly accepts the challenge of meeting its responsibility towards society and the environment. Daimler sells its vehicles and services in nearly all the countries of the world and has production facilities in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa. Its current brand portfolio includes, in addition to the world’s most valuable premium automotive brand, Mercedes-Benz (Source: Interbrand-Study, 10/4/2018), as well as Mercedes-AMG, Mercedes-Maybach and Mercedes me, the brands smart, EQ, Freightliner, Western Star, BharatBenz, FUSO, Setra and Thomas Built Buses, and Daimler Financial Services’ brands: Mercedes-Benz Bank, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Daimler Truck Financial, moovel, car2go and mytaxi. The company is listed on the stock exchanges of Frankfurt and Stuttgart (stock exchange symbol DAI). In 2018, the Group sold 3.4 million vehicles and employed a workforce of around 298,700 people. Group revenue amounted to €167.4 billion. Group EBIT amounted to €11.1 billion.
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