Mercedes-Benz Vans
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Mercedes-Benz Vans is the Daimler AG division for the Mercedes-Benz brand vans . On the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Chief Human Resources Officer and Labor Director Wilfried Porth is responsible for the division, which has been headed by Marcus Breitschwerdt since May 1, 2019. The product range includes the city van Citan , the midsize vans Vito and eVito, the Large Van Sprinter (incl. Sprinter power car), the pickup X class , the minivan V-Class as well as the compact Marco Polo family of motorhomes and recreational vehicles. On February 6, 2019, the annual press conference of Daimler AG reported a number of 421,401 vehicles sold for 2018.
The Mercedes-Benz Vans division was spun off to Mercedes-Benz AG on November 1, 2019. Mercedes-Benz AG is a legally independent business unit (wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG) with its own corporate responsibility.
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Mercedes-Benz plant in Düsseldorf
The plant in Düsseldorf-Derendorf produces vans for the Daimler brands Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner . In 1958/59 what was then Daimler-Benz AG took over Auto Union , which also included the Düsseldorf plant. At the beginning of the 1950s, Rheinmetall's former Plant II from the 1890s, intended to be dismantled as an armaments factory after the Second World War, was initially used by Auto Union with a lease agreement and later taken over entirely. In 1964, Daimler-Benz sold Auto Union to Volkswagen , with the Düsseldorf and Vitoria plants remaining with Daimler-Benz. The plant coined the unofficial name "Düsseldorfer Transporter" or also DüDo for the Mercedes-Benz T2 manufactured there .
| Year (31.12.) |
Employee |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 6,469 |
| 2017 | 6,638 |
| 2018 | 6,596 |
The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and Freightliner Sprinter vehicles are currently being built in Düsseldorf . The open model of the Sprinter - flatbed trucks with single or double cabs and chassis for body builders, as well as the Sprinter power car for z. B. Motorhomes - are built by Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde GmbH. In future, the electric version of the Sprinter, the eSprinter, will be manufactured on the same line as the combustion version.
At the end of 2018, the workforce at the Düsseldorf plant was 6,596 people, 6,596 of whom work for the Mercedes-Benz Vans division.
Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde plant
see main article Automobilwerke Ludwigsfelde
In 1936 the subsidiary Daimler-Benz Motoren GmbH built a plant for aircraft engines ( DB 601 / DB 605 ) in Genshagen (around 9 kilometers south of Berlin , since 1997 part of Ludwigsfelde ). During the war, 11,000 prisoners of war and forced laborers worked in what was then the "National Socialist model company" . In 1943/44 there was a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp in the so-called “Germany Hall” , 1,100 female concentration camp prisoners were used for forced labor. The aircraft engine plant was largely destroyed in an air raid on August 6, 1944. The remains were dismantled after the Second World War .
From July 17, 1965, trucks of the W50 type were manufactured in Ludwigsfelde , and from 1987 the L60 was added to the production program, which was actually supposed to replace the W50 .
592,078 trucks were manufactured up to 1990, then production was discontinued due to the changed political situation and the associated decline in demand.
On June 27, 1990 the VEB-IFA Kombinat Nutzfahrzeuge Ludwigsfelde was dissolved by the Treuhandanstalt and converted into a GmbH , which on February 1, 1991 became "Nutzfahrzeuge Ludwigsfelde GmbH" on the production side and on March 1, 1991 the development side became the "Entwicklungsgesellschaft Ludwigsfelde" rose.
| Year (31.12.) |
Employee |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 1,901 |
| 2017 | 1,957 |
| 2018 | 1,957 |
The plant was 100% taken over by Daimler-Benz AG as Nutzfahrzeuge Ludwigsfelde GmbH in 1994 and is now part of the Daimler Group's CV division (Compact Vans ) as "Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde GmbH" . The following models are produced here:
- LN2 , 1991 to 1994
- T2 , 1991 to 1996
- Mercedes-Benz Vario , 1996 to 2013
- Vaneo high roof combination , from September 25, 2001 to July 8, 2005
- NCV3 in the open model segment (chassis and platform vehicles of the NCV3; as well as low-frame chassis of the NCV3) from 2006.
- Since March 2018 VS30 (the third generation of the Sprinter)
At the end of 2018, the workforce at the Ludwigsfelde plant was 1,957.
Mercedes-Benz plant Vitoria (Spain)
| Year (31.12.) |
Employee |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 4,982 |
| 2017 | 5,307 |
| 2018 | 5,307 |
The Auto Union built in Vitoria in the early 1950s, the new plant of its subsidiary Industrias del Motor SA (IMOSA) and produced there from 1954 initially the DKW Schnellaster F 89 L. Daimler-Benz took over in 1958, Auto Union with all locations. As an in-house design, IMOSA launched the DKW-IMOSA F 1000 L in 1963 , which was also offered with a Mercedes diesel engine as the F 1000 D from 1964. When Auto Union was sold to the Volkswagen plant , Daimler-Benz kept the Spanish plant, where u. a. From 1988 to 1995 the MB 100 , from 1996 to 2003 the W638 series (Vito and V-Class) and from 2003 to 2014 the 639 series (Vito and Viano) were produced. The models of the 447 series (Vito and V-Class) have been coming from Vitoria since 2014 . The battery-electric version of the Vito, the eVito from Vitoria and, since 2019, the new V-Class have also been available since 2018. At the end of 2018, 5,307 people were working there. The future fully electric MPV, the EQV, will also roll off the assembly line in Vitoria.
Mercedes-Benz Vans LLC, Charleston
| Year (31.12.) |
Employee |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 211 |
| 2017 | 397 |
| 2018 | 1,150 |
The plant in North Charleston ( South Carolina ) has been producing Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner Sprinter since 2006, as well as the Viano for the American market under the name Metris. In the first few years, the vehicles were completely manufactured in Düsseldorf, then dismantled and delivered to the USA, where they were reassembled ( SKD ). The background to this is, among other things, the high tariffs that the USA levies on commercial vehicle imports. After the plant was expanded, there has also been complete production in addition to the SKD since September 2018. The Sprinters will be completely manufactured in the future, Metris vans will still be SKD remounted until further notice.
Structural data
| country | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 107,300 | 105,800 | 96,100 |
| Great Britain | 40,400 | 41,000 | 36,700 |
| United States | 38,700 | 34,200 | 33,700 |
| China | 29,100 | 23,800 | 13,600 |
| France | 23,100 | 22,100 | 22,200 |
| Spain | 15,200 | 14,300 | 12,900 |
| Netherlands | 13,800 | 13,500 | 13,000 |
| Italy | 11,600 | 11,300 | 10.100 |
| Belgium / Luxembourg | 9,700 | 10,500 | 9,200 |
| Turkey | 7,300 | 9,300 | 8,100 |
| year | sales | EBIT |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | € 12.835 billion | € 1.170 billion |
| 2017 | € 13.164 billion | € 1.181 billion |
| 2018 | € 13.626 billion | € 0.312 billion |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/de/instance/ko.xhtml?oid=42926103
- ↑ a b Daimler AG: Daimler increases sales and revenue - EBIT and dividends at a high level. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Daimler starts with a new corporate structure. Daimler AG, November 4, 2019, accessed on November 4, 2019 .
- ^ Auto Union in Düsseldorf - A private banker as financier, intermediary and owner ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ a b c d e Daimler AG: Mercedes-Benz Vans at a Glance 2017. Daimler AG, accessed on July 4, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Daimler AG: Mercedes-Benz Vans at a Glance 2018. Daimler AG, accessed on July 4, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Teltow-Flaeming/Ludwigsfelde-Triebkoepfe-und-Windlaeufer-aus-dem-Sprinter-Werk-Hymer-Wohnmobile-Carthago-Frankia
- ↑ https://www.electrive.net/2019/04/01/mercedes-esprinter-im-wohlfuehlmodus-durch-nordschweden/
- ↑ Daimler Facts and Figures - Production Sites. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Daimler Facts and Figures - Production Sites. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Our History - Mercedes-Benz Vans . In: Mercedes-Benz Vans . ( mbvcharleston.com [accessed September 5, 2018]).
- ↑ https://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/daimler-mercedes-gracht-mit-neuem-sprinter-werk-in-den-usa-an/22999650.html
- ↑ https://charlestonbusiness.com/news/automotive/75131/