Leadership in Motion Exploring Daimler Chrysler's Automotive Prowess

The purchase of Chrysler, America's third-largest car company, by the Stuttgart-based Daimler-Benz marked the biggest acquisition by a foreign ... Daimler-Benz AG, the German industrial giant that makes Mercedes-Benz automobiles, will acquire Chrysler Corp. in an estimated $36 billion ... In May, 1998, Daimler-Benz1 and Chrysler Corporation,2 two of the world's leading car manufacturers, agreed to combine their businesses in what they claimed ... from WSJ, FT, brokerage houses) openly speculated that the deal was more Daimler takeover than merger. Daimler was supposed to be interested ... In November 1998, Daimler-Benz became the majority owner of Chrysler Corporation, renaming the company Daimler-Chrysler. The goal of the merger was to reap ... Mercedes-Benz Group#1998–2007: DaimlerChrysler · To a section: This is a redirect from a topic that does not have ... Daimler AG, the world's largest truck maker, will buy a 10 percent stake in Russian truck maker OAO Kamaz in a $300 million deal signed on F... This paper analyses the Daimler Chrysler merger and the change management issues that the two companies faced. Daimler and Chrysler will not try to merge fundamentally different product lines in an elusive quest for super market glory. DaimlerChrysler announced today, May 14, that it will sell 80.1 percent of the Chrysler Group to New York-based private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management ...