Mercedes-Benz Cars

The products supplied by the Mercedes-Benz Cars division range from the high quality small cars of the smart brand to the premium automobiles of the Mercedes-Benz brand and to the Maybach luxury sedans.

The main country of manufacture is Germany, but the division also has production facilities in the United States, China, France, South Africa, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Worldwide, Mercedes-Benz Cars has 17 production sites at present. In order to extend our product range in the compact-car segment, we have constructed a new plant in Hungary, which will go into operation in 2012.

The most important markets for Mercedes-Benz Cars in 2011 were Germany with 21% of unit sales, the other markets of Western Europe (24%), the United States (18%) and China (16%).

 

Management Team of Mercedes-Benz Cars
Dr. Dieter Zetsche	Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard	Dr. Thomas Weber	Dr. Joachim Schmidt	Frank Lindenberg
Chairman of the Board of Management Daimler AG / Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars	Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Production and Procurement Mercedes-Benz Cars & Mercedes-Benz Vans	Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development	Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing Mercedes-Benz Cars	Finance and Controlling Mercedes-Benz Cars, Van & Corporate

  

Mercedes-Benz Cars	2011
	Amounts in millions of €
EBIT	5,192
Revenue	57,410
Investment in property, plant and equipment	2,724
Research and development expenditure	3,733

 

Employees (Dec. 31)	2011
Total	99,091
Germany	86,670
United States	3,083
Rest of World	9,338

 

Sales	2011
	(units, Group sales)1
Mercedes-Benz	1,279,100
A-Class, B-Class	192,300
C-, CLK-, SLK-Class	411,800
E-, CLS-Class	340,100
S-, CL-, SL-Class, SLR, SLS, Maybach	80,700
M-, R-, G-, GL-, GLK-Class	254,300
smart	99,700
Mercedes-Benz Cars1	1,381,400
Western Europe	625,200
thereof Germany	290,700
NAFTA	288,400
thereof United States	250,400
Asia/Pacific	353,300
thereof China	223,100
thereof Japan	32,500

¹ Includes Mitsubishi vehicles manufactured and/orsold in South Africa.