Dieter Zetsche, who will take over the reins at DaimlerChrysler AG at the start of next year, should...
Dieter Zetsche, who will take over the reins at DaimlerChrysler AG at the start of next year, should now be filing for the company's divorce. The marriage of Daimler and Chrysler has never worked, and probably never will. Chrysler still has a difficult future in the brutally competitive auto industry, where it has to match discounts by troubled giants such as General Motors Corp. In the second quarter, Chrysler contributed E544m in operating profit compared with just E12m for Mercedes. There will never be a better time to sell the US division so the parent company can concentrate on the re...
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