Automobile manufacturing industry

Description
The automotive industry is a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles. It is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue.

Group A2
Automobile manufacturing industry
Competitors overview
Lead Competitors
•DaimlerChrysler AG
•Ford Motor Corporation
•Honda Motors
•Toyota
Daimler Chrysler AG
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Daimler Chrysler AG
Company History:
•Company founders# Gottlieb Daimler and $arl %en&
•Mercedes automobiles !ere fitted !ith Daimler engines and
open the door to the !orld's first car race in ()*+
•,riginal cars had lo! center of gra-ity. pressed#steel frame.
light. high#performance engine and honeycomb radiator
•/n (*)). Daimler#%en& AG and Chrysler Corporation 0
merged to form Daimler Chrysler AG
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Daimler Chrysler AG
Company Today:
•De-elops. manufactures and distributes passenger cars. light
truc1s and commercial -ehicles
•,perates in four segments: Mercedes Car Group. Chrysler
Group. Commercial -ehicles and 2er-ices
•Total Re-enue 34R (+5"( billion 642D (*5"7 billion8 in 599+
•Total employees: 7)+.:57
•Head;uarters: 34R#2tuttgart.Germany
42A# Auburn Hills. M/
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•Commercial brands
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Daimler Chrysler AG
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Daimler Chrysler AG
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