Financial/Performance: Daimler Trucks makes EUR1bn loss in 2009

摘要

Germany - The opening statement by Daimler Trucks' reporting its financial results on the market situation in 2009 suitably summed up the catastrophic year that was, it read: 'In what was an exceptional year, global transport volume plummeted worldwide in the course of 2009. Purchases of new trucks were correspondingly low. After years of record sales, the sharp decline hit Europe at the beginning of 2009. The North American truck market once again contracted significantly last year, while the structural downward trend continued on the Japanese truck market, with the situation there exacerbated by the global economic crisis.'