Mercedes-Benz starts the year 2016 with double-digit growth

Ola Källenius, Member of the Board of Management, Mercedes-Benz Cars Marketing & Sales: "We continued the positive development of record year 2015 in January, and started the new year successfully."

Mercedes-Benz started the year 2016 with record unit sales. In January, 150,814 vehicles with the three-pointed star were handed over to customers – an increase of 19.9%. The strong growth in unit sales was driven by record numbers in all three core regions Europe, Asia-Pacific and NAFTA. Growth last month was particularly strong in China, where unit sales increased by more than 50% compared with January 2015. Mercedes-Benz was the premium market leader in the USA, Great Britain, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Switzerland and Portugal in January. Amongst the models, the SUVs made a large contribution to the good development with over 60% growth compared to the prior-year month.

Following its record results of last year, Mercedes-Benz successfully started the year of the E-Class and the dream cars. In January, a total of 150,814 vehicles were handed over to customers – an increase of 19.9% compared with the same month of last year. This means that the Stuttgart-based company with the three-pointed star has grown for the 35th consecutive month.

Ola Källenius, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG responsible for Mercedes-Benz Cars Marketing & Sales: "We continued the positive development of record year 2015 in January, and started the new year successfully. At the beginning of the year, our unit sales were particularly high in China, where we handed over more than 40,000 vehicles to customers."

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