Mercedes-Benz Cars

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Mercedes-Benz Cars (MBC) is the Daimler AG division for the passenger car brands Mercedes-Benz and Smart . Until the separation from Chrysler in 2007, this division was called the Mercedes Car Group (MCG). Head of the business unit is the Daimler CEO Ola Källenius . On February 1, 2018, at the annual press conference of Daimler AG, the number of cars sold for 2017 was 2,373,527, including around 135,500 Smart brand cars. The Daimler Group sold a total of 3.274 million vehicles in 2017 (2016: 2.998 million).

At the end of 2017, of the 289,321 employees of the Daimler Group, 142,666 were employed in the MBC division, 107,654 of them in Germany.

Mercedes-Benz Cars sold a total of 1,093,900 vehicles in 2009 (of which Smart: 113,900), followed by 1,276,800 in 2010, including 94,300 Smart cars. In 2011 there were 1,381,400 cars, 1,451,569 vehicles in 2012 and 1,565,600 in 2013 (of which Smart: 99,700 in 2011; 105,700 in 2012 and 98,200 in 2013).

Detached vehicles
country 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Worldwide total 2,383,000 2,374,000 ? ? ? 1,565,600 1,451,600 1,381,400 1,276,800 1,093,900
including Mercedes-Benz 2,253,000 2,238,000 ? ? ? 1,467,400 1,345,900 1,281,700 1,182,500 980,000
of which smart 130,000 136,000 ? ? ? 98,200 105,700 99,700 94,300 113,900
China 677,700 618,800 487,600 400,400 292,700 238,700 208,500 223.100 160,000 67,500
United States 327.200 337,900 347.200 359.100 344,400 318,500 299,700 250,400 220,500 203,000
Germany 323,800 319,900 313,700 295,700 272,500 279,900 289,900 290,700 292,900 297,800
Great Britain 171,300 184,500 178,600 154,000 127,500 114,400 101,900 85,000 81,900 74,400
Italy 87,400 92,200 88,700 75,400 61,300 64,100 64,900 73,600 76,900 80,000
France 76,200 76,500 71,600 61,500 54,900 50,800 52,500 50,100 52,900 53,100
Japan 72,600 69,100 68,900 69,400 61,300 53,700 44,600 32,500 31,200 26,700
South Korea 68,100 67,500 61,900 46,600 35,700 24,300 ? ? ? ?
Spain 57,200 55,600 52,300 43,500 33,500 25,300 22,500 24,000 30,300 28,000
Canada 45,200 46,000 42,900 41,900 36,000 33,900 32,900 30,400 29,700 27,400
Australia ? ? 37,700 32,300 27,400 ? ? ? ? ?
Russia ? ? 36,000 41,700 49,800 45,000 37,800 29,800 20,300 12,100
Belgium ? ? ? ? ? 25,700 22,400 22,100 21,500 19,900
South Africa ? ? ? 27,500 24,600 22,100 22,700 22,600 19,500 ?

From October 1, 2004 to August 31, 2005, Eckhard Cordes was a member of the Board of Management with the Passenger Cars division, responsible for the restructuring of the then Mercedes Car Group, which posted a loss of almost one billion euros in the first quarter of 2005. After Jürgen Schrempp had announced that he would be leaving as chairman of the board, Cordes resigned from this position, not least because he himself aspired to the post of chairman of the board. His successor Dieter Zetsche has also been Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG since January 1, 2006.

Financial data
year sales EBIT
2010 € 53.43 billion € 4.656 billion
2011 € 57.41 billion € 5.192 billion
2012 € 61.66 billion € 4.391 billion
2013 € 64.31 billion € 4.006 billion
2014 € 73.58 billion € 5.853 billion
2015 € 83.81 billion € 7.926 billion
2016 € 89.28 billion € 8.112 billion
2017 € 94.695 billion € 9.207 billion
2018 € 93.103 billion € 7.216 billion

Works

Mercedes-Benz plant in Stuttgart

Corporate headquarters in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
  • Location: Mercedesstrasse 137, 70327 Stuttgart
  • Production area: 1,056,000 m²
  • Factory site: 2,140,000 m²
  • Products: Production of engines, axles, gears, components including pre-works, foundry and forge
  • Employees: around 19,000 (as of December 31, 2017)
  • Stuttgart-Möhringen was the headquarters of the group until 2006. It was decided to relocate the head office from Stuttgart-Möhringen back to Stuttgart-Untertürkheim. The buildings and the site in Stuttgart-Möhringen were sold in 2007, but were used as the sole tenant until 2011.
  • Stuttgart-Untertürkheim is home to the development departments for Mercedes-Benz passenger car engines, axles and transmissions (Mercedes-Benz Technology Center), for vans (Van Technology Center) and truck product development.
  • Engines, transmissions and axles have been produced in the Untertürkheim plant since 1904 and shipped to production plants around the world.

The Untertürkheim plant has a total of six locations:

Main plant in Untertürkheim
Untertürkheim , Bad Cannstatt , Hedelfingen , Mettingen , Brühl , Sirnau .
Workers at the Untertürkheim plant
History of the Untertürkheim plant
1904 The headquarters of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft are relocated from Cannstatt to Untertürkheim, where vehicle production continues.
1908 The first Mercedes "Kardanwagen" comes onto the market.
1912 Start of commercial vehicle production in Untertürkheim (until 1921)
1916 The first 36 apprentices are trained in the factory.
1921 The three-pointed star in a circle becomes the Mercedes trademark.
1924 The 24/100/140 hp Mercedes, developed by the new Daimler chief designer Ferdinand Porsche , is the first production car with a supercharged engine .
1926 Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft merges with Benz & Cie. to Daimler-Benz AG. The Mercedes three-pointed star in the Benz laurel wreath becomes a trademark for Mercedes-Benz.
1928 In a Mercedes-Benz SS type, Rudolf Caracciola, Otto Merz and Christian Werner took the first three places at the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring.
1936 The first series passenger car with a diesel engine, the Mercedes 260 D , is presented at the Berlin Motor Show in February 1936.
1939 Hermann Lang wins the Tripoli Grand Prix ahead of Caracciola, both with the 1.5 liter W165 formula racing car.
1945 In May, 1,240 employees begin to rebuild the plant, which was roughly 60 percent destroyed in the air raids on Stuttgart in the Second World War .
1946 The post-war production begins with panel van, health and police vehicles based on the 170 V Mercedes-Benz .
1952 The Untertürkheim racing department develops the 300 SL with "wing doors".
1959 The era of the tail fins begins with the Mercedes-Benz W 111 .
1963 The Mercedes-Benz 600 is the most exclusive vehicle of its time on the market.
1968 The one millionth vehicle diesel engine of the post-war period leaves the main plant.
1969 The Mercedes-Benz C 111 experimental vehicles with rotary engines developed in Untertürkheim cause a sensation.
Until 1975 restructuring and production expansion with new parts of the factory
Van Technology Center (VTC)
Mercedes Benz Museum . View from the open air arena
1985 The ten millionth car engine rolls off the assembly line. The collectively agreed weekly working time is 38.5 hours.
1989 Relocation of parts of the group central administration to Stuttgart-Möhringen . The management of the Mercedes-Benz Group will keep its headquarters in Untertürkheim.
1995 New construction of the V-engine plant in Bad Cannstatt
1997 New construction and redesign of the in- line engine plant in Untertürkheim
1998 Daimler-Benz and the American Chrysler Corp. merge to form DaimlerChrysler AG.
2000 The annual production of engines exceeds the million mark.
2002 Around 21,000 people are employed in the seven plant sections. More than 4,500 complete drive systems are produced every day.
2004 In the 100th anniversary year, the new logistics hub "Zentralversand Übersee" in Hedelfingen and a new training center in Brühl are inaugurated.
2005 Move into the Van Technology Center (VTC)
2006 The DaimlerChrysler headquarters in Germany is relocated from Stuttgart-Möhringen to Untertürkheim.
2006 In May, the Mercedes-Benz World is opened next to the plant , which consists of the Mercedes-Benz Museum and a sales office (Mercedes-Benz Center).
2007 After separating from Chrysler in August 2007, the company based in Untertürkheim was renamed Daimler AG at the general meeting in October of the same year .
2007 The Bad Cannstatt engine plant celebrates its tenth anniversary.
2008 Start of series production of the new four-cylinder diesel engine OM 651

Most of the engines for cars and vans as well as all transmissions and axles for Mercedes-Benz cars are produced here. The engines of Formula 1 cars and Formula 3 cars are also developed and tested here.

Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant

The Sindelfingen plant, 15 km southwest of Stuttgart, is the group's largest plant.

  • The second "Mercedes-Benz Technology Center" (car development departments) for design, body and chassis is located in the plant.
  • MBC employees:> 25,000, a total of approx. 35,000 (as of December 31, 2017)
  • Production area: 1,305,557 m²
  • Factory site: 2,955,944 m²

Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant

Aerial photo of the Rastatt plant
Rastatt plant with customer center
  • Headcount at the site:> 6,500 (as of December 31, 2017)
  • Production area: 405,682 m²
  • Factory site: 1,473,000 m²

The Daimler plant in Rastatt was originally planned as a third car assembly plant next to Sindelfingen and Bremen, as a parallel plant to Sindelfingen for the production of the then W 124 series . The plant was designed by a joint project group made up of the Daimler-Benz board of directors and the general works council as a modern, "humane factory", in which conveyor production was reduced to a minimum and modern production methods such as box production, passenger conveyor belts and group work were used. In January 1992 the Daimler-Benz car assembly plant in Rastatt became an independent plant. By 1996, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class was built there for the American market with almost 1,500 employees. The plant was then closed for six months and completely rebuilt for the production of the Mercedes-Benz A-Class . The modern "humane" production methods receded into the background in favor of classic belt production. In 1997, the workers from the Rastatt plant posted to the Sindelfingen, Gaggenau and Wörth sites returned to their original place of work and have been producing the A-Class there ever since. In October 1997 this type of vehicle hit the headlines when an A-Class overturned in the elk test , an extreme braking and evasive maneuver only carried out in Sweden, which made changes necessary. During a three-month delivery break, during which numerous employees were again seconded to other plants, the A-Class was improved with a modified chassis and an electronic stability program (ESP) installed as standard. The workforce grew to over 5,000 by 2001. In 2004 the area of ​​the plant had to be enlarged and rebuilt again because a second series was to be produced: the Mercedes-Benz B-Class .

year vehicles
2011 177,572
2012 201.211
2013 286,628
2014 292,784
2015 310.205

The following models are manufactured there today:

The vehicles from the Rastatt plant can be identified by the 11th digit of their vehicle identification number being “J” or “K”. From 1996 to 2009, the SWR3 New Pop Festival took place annually in the factory halls . For this purpose, the tapes were only stopped shortly before the start of the respective musical performances.

The three millionth vehicle rolled off the assembly line on November 16, 2012.

Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen

  • Headcount at the site:> 12,500 (as of December 31, 2017)
  • Production area: 584,500 m²
  • Factory site: 1,390,000 m²

The plant in Bremen is the largest private employer in the Hanseatic city and - in terms of numbers - the largest production plant in the Daimler group. It is located in the east of Bremen's Sebaldsbrück district . The site had been built by Borgward as the parent plant from 1938 and was taken over by Hanomag for the construction of light trucks and construction machinery after Borgward went bankrupt . In 1969, Daimler-Benz took a stake in Hanomag-Henschel and took over vehicle construction from Hanomag-Henschel a little later, which meant that the plant was integrated into the Daimler-Benz group. Initially, the Harburger Transporter and the successor Mercedes-Benz T 1 were built there, later the T-model of the W 123 .

year vehicles
2011 313.026
2012 316.621
2013 297,406
2014 338,495
2015 324.131

The following models are currently being manufactured in Bremen:

Due to its proximity to the German ports, especially the main passenger car transshipment point Bremerhaven , the Bremen plant also produces in particular for exports overseas.

Mercedes-Benz plant in Berlin

On October 2, 1902, the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) took over the ailing motor vehicle and engine factory Berlin AG in Marienfelde . In the beginning, boat and ship engines were still manufactured there. In 1905 the production of trucks and buses began; 1907 followed by the first motorized fire fighting vehicles . During the First World War , the first German A7V tank was developed and manufactured in Marienfelde in 1917/1918 .

In the course of arming the Wehrmacht , Daimler-Benz developed and produced the Panzerkampfwagen I in Marienfelde . For the war-important production of the successor types Panzer III and Panzer V , the group had more than 3,700 (late 1944) forced laborers work for itself; including French, Soviet and Polish prisoners of war . From the end of September 1944 to mid-April 1945 there was also a branch of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Marienfelde .

Today, passenger car engines for Mercedes-Benz are manufactured here, including the V12-cylinder bi-turbo engine M275 / M285 for the S-Class and previously the Maybach, the diesel engine for the Smart, and since May 2005 the six-cylinder -Diesel V engine OM642 and from 2005 to 2010 the V8 diesel OM629 . The OM 651 has been manufactured in the Kölleda engine plant since 2007 .

In 2011 the Berlin plant received the Green Buddy Award in the “Production-related services” category. At the end of 2017, the workforce was> 2,500.

Mercedes-Benz plant in Hamburg

Mercedes-Benz plant in Hamburg

The plant in Hamburg-Harburg ( Bostelbek ) no longer has full vehicle production. Rather, axles and axle components , steering columns , lightweight structural parts and components for exhaust technology for almost all models of the Mercedes-Benz brand are manufactured there. Since 2019, drive modules and electric rear axles for the first electric vehicle of the product and technology brand EQ as well as integrated starter generators (iSGs) have also been manufactured. It is the former Tempo factory that was taken over by Hanomag in 1965 . With the takeover of Hanomag-Henschel , Daimler-Benz came into possession of the plant in the early 1970s. The location coined the term " Harburger Transporter " due to the vehicles manufactured there . At the end of 2017, the workforce was> 2,500.

Motor plant Kölleda (MDC Power)

Basic data MDC Power GmbH
year Employees built engines
2009 306 238.414
2010 399 351.421
2011 530 474.010
2012 778 638.067
2013 914 795.733
2014 1,074 865.651

The MBC subsidiary MDC Power GmbH in Kölleda (Thuringia) produces various internal combustion engines for Mercedes-Benz vehicles. The plant, which opened at the end of 2003, initially also manufactured engines for Mitsubishi . The three- and four-cylinder gasoline engines in the capacity classes 1.1, 1.3 and 1.5 liters with outputs ranging from 55 to 80 kilowatts in the Mitsubishi Colt for the European and Japanese markets as well as in some Asian versions of the Mitsubishi Lancer installed and also produced for the Smart Forfour and the Colt Cabrio until mid-2006 .

Production of the three-cylinder OM 660 diesel engine for the Smart Fortwo was relocated from the Berlin plant to Kölleda in 2007 and ended in 2013. The four-cylinder OM 651 diesel engine for Daimler AG and third-party customers has been rolling off the assembly line at MDC Power since August 2008 . The four-cylinder M 270 gasoline engine for the current A- and B-Class as well as the CLA and GLA models has been in production since 2011. The M 133 for the AMG models of the A-Class, CLA and GLA was also built there until 2019 according to the AMG principle of "one man - one engine" (one man, one engine). The four- and six-cylinder diesel engines of the OM 654 (since 2015) and OM 656 (since 2017) series are also assembled at the Kölleda plant.

Mercedes-Benz plant Kecskemét (Hungary)

Mercedes-Benz Factory - Kecskemét, Hungary

The Kecskemét plant in Hungary , which belongs to Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft., Forms a production network for compact cars from Daimler AG with the Rastatt plant. After the location decision in 2008, production of the B-Class ( W 246 ), which had already been built in Rastatt, started in March 2012 , of which the Hungarian plant built 41,035 vehicles in that year. In the following year, the CLA class ( C 117 ), produced exclusively in Hungary, was added. In 2014, the plant produced a total of 150,287 vehicles from both series (2013: 109,266).

  • Headcount at the site:> 1,400 (as of December 31, 2017)
  • Production area: 250,315 m²
  • Factory site: 1,420,000 m²

Mercedes-Benz Tuscaloosa plant (Alabama, USA)

year vehicles
2011 148.092
2012 180.379
2013 185.196
2014 232,662

At the Tuscaloosa plant in Vance (Alabama) around 3,700 employees (as of December 31, 2017) of Mercedes-Benz US International manufacture the following models:

Mercedes-Benz East London plant (South Africa)

year vehicles
2011 54,312
2012 60.030
2013 50,287
2014 45,881

The East London plant produces the right-hand drive (" RHD ") versions of the C-Class (mainly for markets in Great Britain, South Africa and countries in Asia, e.g. Japan, Thailand, Malaysia). It has also produced the C-Class for export to the USA since 2007. At the end of 2017, the workforce was> 3,300.

Smart factory in Hambach, Lorraine (France)

year vehicles
2011 103,635
2012 104,155
2013 98,239
2014 87,195

In " Smartville " mentioned plant in Hambach , which is Smart Fortwo produced. At the end of 2017, the workforce was> 800.

Assembly plants owned by third parties

There are other car assembly plants in which Mercedes vehicles are produced. However, these plants are not majority owned by Daimler AG, but are held by local importers and manufacturers in individual countries, some with minority stakes by Daimler AG and some with personnel support (plant management, quality assurance). These can be found e.g. B. in Thailand and in China . Some of these plants are supplied with parts from other Daimler plants and carry out the final assembly (" CKD " vehicles). This division is often for tax reasons or corresponds to local laws that tax the import of operational new vehicles highly, or local legislation does not allow majority ownership of companies in the hands of foreigners.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annual Report Daimler AG 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Annual Report Daimler AG 2010
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Annual Report Daimler AG 2012
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Annual Report Daimler AG 2013
  5. ↑ Daimler at a glance 2018
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Daimler at a glance 2017
  7. ↑ a b c Annual Report Daimler AG 2016
  8. ↑ Annual Report Daimler AG 2015
  9. ↑ a b c d e f Annual Report Daimler AG 2014
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Not explicitly listed in the corresponding annual report.
  11. ↑ a b c d e f Annual Report Daimler AG 2011
  12. ↑ Daimler increases unit sales and revenue - EBIT and dividends at a high level
  13. ↑ Daimler Facts and Figures - Sindelfingen. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b Daimler: Bremen replaces Sindelfingen as the largest production location on focus.de, accessed on November 24, 2016.
  15. ↑ Daimler: Bremen replaces Sindelfingen as the largest production location. In: focus.de. February 4, 2016, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Green Buddy Award 2011
  17. ↑ High-tech products from Mercedes-Benz in northern Germany: Mercedes-Benz Hamburg plant continues on course towards electromobility. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Daimler AG: Annual Reports 2009 to 2014
  19. ↑ Our products , MDC Power GmbH website, accessed on December 16, 2017.

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