Daimler Trucks Improves Profitability, Productivity, and Capabilities for Innovation

• Highest level of new orders at Daimler Trucks since 2007; roughly 420,000 units ordered between January and November 2011

• Extensive capacity utilization at the truck production locations worldwide

• Daimler Trucks expects to achieve an average return on sales of eight percent across the entire business cycle beginning in 2013

• Market growth anticipated around the world over the next few years

• Product offensive in Europe, North America, and Asi

Indications are good that the global truck sector will continue to grow in the future.The current level of incoming orders at Daimler AG confirm this view: The orders for 420,000 units that Daimler Trucks received between January and November 2011 represent a 26 percent increase from the prior year (334,200 units), as well as the best new order figure since 2007. Sales at Daimler Trucks were also up 15 percent to 371,400 units during the same period. This result is mainly due to positive developments in the NAFTA region, where Daimler Trucks received orders for
124,400 units between January and November 2011 — its best result since 2006 and an increase of 81 percent from the same period in the previous year. At 102,400 units, sales in the NAFTA region through November were up 47 percent from the period January—November 2010 (69,700 units). Daimler Trucks sold 53,500 units in Western Europe between January and November 2011, or 11 percent more than during the same period in the previous year (48,100). Despite the triple disaster in Japan, Daimler was able to sell 111,500 units from January to November, more or less the same number as during the same period last year (112,100).  

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