Daimler Truck

German commercial vehicle manufacturer

Daimler Truck Holding AG

Daimler Truck AG facilities

Type| Public

Traded as

| FWB: DTG
DAX component
ISIN| DE000DTR0CK8
Industry| Automotive
Predecessor| Daimler AG's heavy commercial vehicle operations
Founded| 1 November 2019; 4 years ago (2019-11-01)
Stuttgart, Germany
Headquarters| Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| Martin Daum (Chairman)
Products|

* Trucks
* Buses

Brands| Mercedes-Benz
Services| Financial
Revenue| €50.9 billion (2022)
Owners|

* Mercedes-Benz Group (30.01%)[1]
* BAIC (6.49%)
* Li Shufu (through Tenaciou3 Prospect Investment Limited) (6.3%)
* Kuwait Investment Authority (5.01%)
* Mercedes-Benz Pension Trust (4.99%)

Number of employees

| 104,729 (2022)
Subsidiaries|

* Daimler Truck North America
* Daimler India

Website| daimlertruck.com

Daimler Truck AG (holding company legal name Daimler Truck Holding AG) is the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, with over 35 main locations worldwide and approximately 100,000 employees.[2] Daimler Truck AG is headquartered in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. It was a part of Daimler AG from November 2019 to December 2021.[1]

## History[edit]

Daimler Truck was established in 2019 as a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz Group AG. In February 2021, Daimler announced its planned to spin off Daimler Truck into a separate listed company.[3][4] The spin-off was approved by its shareholders on 1 October 2021.[5] Following this, Daimler Truck Holding AG was incorporated to manage assets owned by Daimler Truck AG, and Daimler AG retained 35% of shares in the new company, with 5% being transferred to its pension trust.[6] A separate website for the Daimler Truck company was launched on December 1,[7] and the company went public on 10 December.[8]

## Brands[edit]

* Mercedes-Benz \- light, medium and heavy trucks, buses
* Freightliner \- medium and heavy trucks, vans
* Western Star \- heavy trucks
* Fuso \- light, medium and heavy trucks, buses
* Thomas Built Buses \- school buses
* Setra \- buses
* BharatBenz \- truck brand in India
* Detroit Diesel \- medium and heavy-duty powertrain
* TruckStore - used vehicles, financing, leasing, rental, warranty and service contracts, and buyback
* Fleetboard - telematics and connectivity
* Rizon \- electric medium-duty trucks

## Finances[edit]

Of the Daimler Group's total workforce of 298,683 at the end of 2018 (2017: 289,321), 82,953 (2016: 79,483) worked at the Daimler Trucks division, of which 30,447 (2017: 30,424) were employed in Germany and 16,647 in the U.S. (2017: 15,002). In 2019, revenue amounted to €40.2 billion at Daimler Trucks and €4.7 billion at Daimler Buses.[9] Daimler Buses is a leading brand in its core markets of Europe, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, selling 30,888 vehicles worldwide in 2019.[10]

In 2018, the most important sales market was the NAFTA countries with 37% followed by Asia with 32%, Western Europe (EU plus Norway and Switzerland) with 17%, and Latin America (excluding the NAFTA country of Mexico) with 7%.[11]

## Locations[edit]

Parts of this article (those related to this section) need to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2021)

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Daimler Truck has a worldwide network of production plants and research centers. The following list is a description of all locations worldwide that include a Daimler Truck plant, including plants for the subsidiaries EvoBus, Daimler Trucks North America, Detroit Diesel, Freightliner Trucks, and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation.[12]

City | Country | Purpose | Employees[a] | Plant area

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Aikawa | Japan | Production of transmission parts | 267 | —
Aksaray | Turkey | Atego, Axor, Actros & Unimog
Research and development | 1,737 | 560,000 m2 (6,000,000 sq ft)
Atlantis | South Africa | Foundry | 842 | 940,000 m2 (10,100,000 sq ft)
Beijing | China | Auman trucks (assembly)
Four-cylinder engines (production & assembly), six-cylinder engines (assembly) | 8,878 | 229,862 m2 (2,474,210 sq ft)
Bangalore | India | Daimler Truck Innovation Center India[13] | 1400 | N/A
Berlin | Germany | Various engines, components, transmission parts and fuel systems | 2,538 | 501,502 m2 (5,398,120 sq ft)
Chennai | India | Trucks (LDT, MDT, HDT) under BharatBenz, Mercedes-Benz and Fuso brands
Buses under BharatBenz | 2,540 | 1,600,000 m2 (17,000,000 sq ft)
Cleveland, North Carolina | USA | Class 8 truck models (Freightliner Cascadia / Western Star 47X, 49X and 57X. | 1,837 | —
Detroit, Michigan | USA | Detroit Diesel Engines, transmissions, axle, electric axle, and battery assembly | 2,164 | —
Dortmund | Germany | Transit-, interurban-, and mobility buses and coaches | 268 | —
East London | South Africa | Mercedes trucks & buses, Fuso trucks | 2,743 | 603,600 m2 (6,497,000 sq ft)
Ebina | Japan | Fuso trucks, various bodies
Chassis development | 430 | 83,000 m2 (890,000 sq ft)
Funza | Colombia | Chassis for buses | 542 | 11,000 m2 (120,000 sq ft)
Gaffney, South Carolina | USA | Chassis for school buses, shuttle buses, step vans and motor homes | 542 | —
Gaggenau | Germany | Manual and automatic transmissions, axles, torque converters & pressed parts | 6,280 | 460,000 m2 (5,000,000 sq ft)
García | Mexico | Bus chassis assembly | 4000 | 42,709 m2 (459,720 sq ft)[14]
Gastonia, North Carolina | USA | Parts production | 1,262 | —
Hamburg | Germany | Axles and axle components, steering columns, components for exhaust emission technology and lightweight structural parts | 2,752 | 331,000 m2 (3,560,000 sq ft)
High Point, North Carolina | USA | School buses (assembly)
Research and development | 1,316 | —
Holýšov | Czech Republic | Motorcoach bodyworks and bus segments | 360 | —
Istanbul-Hoşdere | Turkey | Body shop, cathodic dip painting, paint shop
Transit- and interurban buses and coaches (assembly) | 4,421 | —
Jakarta | Indonesia | Buses | — | —
Juiz de Fora | Brazil | Accelo & Actros
(assembly) | 926 | —
Kassel | Germany | Axles, drive shafts & other components | 2,820 | 435,873 m2 (4,691,700 sq ft)
Kawasaki | Japan | Fuso head office functions
(Research and development, production of engines, axles & transmissions; LDT, MDT, HDT) | 4,670 | —
Kirchheim unter Teck | Germany | EvoBus corporate headquarters
Sales | 120 | —
Kölleda | Germany | Three- and four-cylinder engines | 914 | 417,434 m2 (4,493,220 sq ft)
Ligny-en-Barrois | France | Transit buses & coaches
(Assembly) | 375 | —
Logan Township, New Jersey | USA | Fuso | — | —
Mannheim | Germany | Transit-, intercity buses and coaches (Body shop, cathodic dip painting, assembly) | 3,301 | —
Mannheim | Germany | Foundry, engines (production & remanufacturing) and green technology engines) | 5,113 | 898,654 m2 (9,673,030 sq ft)
Molsheim | France | Customization of special purpose trucks | 527 | —
Mount Holly, North Carolina | USA | Freightliner Business Class M2, 108SD, and 114SD assembly | 1,460 | —
Neu-Ulm | Germany | Transit- and interurban buses & coaches
(Paint shop and assembly) | 3,578 | —
Portland, Oregon | USA | Truck assembly: Freightliner eCascadia / Western Star 47X, 49X
Research and development | 4,590 | —
Sakura | Japan | Fuso proving ground & test track | 384 | —
Saltillo | Mexico | Freightliner Cascadia | 2,972 | —
Sámano-Castro Urdiales | Spain | Chassis | 246 | —
Santiago Tianguistenco | Mexico | Freightliner M2 106, M2 112 and Cascadia / Western Star 57X | 1,610 | —
São Bernardo do Campo | Brazil | Entire Latin American truck product range
Engines, axles, transmissions, bus chassis
Research and development | 12,788 | —
Stuttgart | Germany | Company Headquarters
Engines, axles, transmissions & other components
Pre-commissioning foundry and forge
Research and development | 17,973 | 2,060,045 m2 (22,174,140 sq ft)
Toluca | Mexico | Refurbishing of engines, transmissions and other components | — | —
Toyama | Japan | Small, medium and large buses
Product development | 646 | —
Tramagal | Portugal | Fuso Canter | 307 | 39,900 m2 (429,000 sq ft)
Virrey del Pino, Buenos Aires Province | Argentina | Accelo, Atego, OF and OH bus chassis | 407 |
Wanaherang, Gunung Putri, Bogor | Indonesia | Buses, Axor | — | —
Wörth am Rhein | Germany | Actros, Antos, Arocs, Axor, Atego, Econic, Unimog, Zetros | 11,741 | —

1. ^ As of December 2013

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Why did Daimler spin off the Daimler Truck business? What does spin-off mean? on DaimlerTruck
2. ^ "Anzahl verkaufter Lastkraftwagen weltweit nach Hersteller im Jahr 2019". 2023-12-19.
3. ^ Carey, Nick (3 February 2021). "Daimler to spin off truck unit, sharpen investor focus on Mercedes-Benz". Reuters. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
4. ^ "Automaker Daimler to spin off trucks business, change name". Yahoo Finance Canada. 3 February 2021. Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
5. ^ tagesschau.de. "Daimler besteht künftig aus zwei unabhängigen Teilen". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-03.
6. ^ "Questions and answers to the spin-off Daimler Truck". DaimlerTruck.com. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
7. ^ "Following the Split-Off: New Daimler Truck Media Site". DaimlerTruck.com. 2021-12-01. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
8. ^ "Daimler Truck launched on stock exchange as an independent company". DaimlerTruck.com. 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
9. ^ "Daimler teilt sich auf - omnibus.news" (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-03.
10. ^ AG, Daimler Truck. "Marken Daimler Buses | Daimler Truck AG". Daimler Truck AG (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-10-03. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
11. ^ "Daimler Trucks: Rekordjahr 2018 mit Höchstwerten bei Absatz, Umsatz und Ertrag – Absatzplus für 2019 erwartet". marsMediaSite (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-03.
12. ^ Baranouski, Artsiom (2023-04-07). "The Benefits&Drawbacks of Choosing Daimler Trucks for Your Business". Medium. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
13. ^ "Bengaluru, Daimler Truck Innovation Center India Private Limited". daimlertruck.com.
14. ^ "Mercedes-Benz – Corporativo". AutobusesMercedesBenz.com.mx. Archived from the original on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.

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Buses|

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