Daimler
Truck-as-a-Service: Daimler Truck Financial Services integrates rental offer from CharterWay
16 Jan 2025
The market for rental solutions in Europe continues to grow strongly as companies increasingly look for integrated and flexible transport solutions…
Daimler Truck unit sales 2024: 460,409 units
14 Jan 2025
Daimler Truck has sold 460,409 trucks and buses on Group level in 2024 (2023: 526,053). The segment Trucks North America contributed 190,428 units …
Major contract for Mercedes-Benz Trucks: Amazon orders more than 200 eActros 600
14 Jan 2025
Amazon has placed its largest-ever order of more than 200 battery-electric heavy goods vehicles – and has selected the flagship Mercedes-Benz eAc…
Daimler Buses opens 100th service centre for eCitaro customers
13 Jan 2025
Daimler Buses continues to systematically expand its electric mobility service in Europe: the manufacturer has opened its 100th eBus service centre…
Daimler Truck brand Thomas Built Buses launches second-generation of battery-electric school bus Jouley
09 Jan 2025
Thomas Built Buses, a leading manufacturer of school buses in North America and subsidiary of Daimler Truck North America, announces the launch of …
Daimler Truck brand FUSO handed over 22 all-electric eCanter to Planway Logística in Spain
27 Dec 2024
Planway Logística, a logistics provider based in Orense, Spain, added 22 FUSO eCanter to its fleet: All vehicles are operating from now on as part…
Ceremonial handover: 95 eCitaro buses for the Hamburg metropolitan region
27 Dec 2024
A major step towards CO2-neutral local transport: the Hamburg metropolitan region welcomes 95 new Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses to the fleet of vhh.m…
500 Mercedes-Benz Actros for the Finéjas Group - conclusion of one of the largest orders for Mercedes-Benz Trucks in 2024
27 Dec 2024
Major order for Mercedes-Benz Trucks from Lithuania. At the end of 2024, the last of a total of 500 new Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks were handed ov…
The new Actros L: first vehicle rolls off the production line at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth
27 Dec 2024
The new Mercedes-Benz Actros L with aerodynamically improved ProCabin driver's cab is ready for production and delivery: the first customer vehicle…
Mercedes-Benz Trucks hands over first series-produced eActros 600 to customers in Germany
27 Dec 2024
After the start of series production of the Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 at the end of November at the Wörth plant, the first customer deliveries hav…
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.
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