THE FIRST GLOBAL CAR COLOSSUS

摘要

The champagne was on ice at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Earlier in the day on May 6, the board of Chrysler Corp. and the management board of Daimler Benz approved a historic merger, creating a $130 billion automotive colossus known as Daimler-Chrysler ag. The chief executives of two of the world's largest auto makers, Chrysler's Robert J. Eaton and Daimler's Jiirgen Schrempp, strode across the room and sealed the largest merger in automotive history-and the third-largest deal ever-with a handshake. The mood was electric as the assembled executives prepared to pop the cork on a pact that would send shock waves around the world. "Both men were enormously energized," says a source close to the deal.