Daimler
Happy Birthday Daimler Buses: 30 years of Mercedes-Benz and Setra buses under one roof
21 Feb 2025
Daimler Buses GmbH is celebrating its 30th anniversary. On February 23,1995, EvoBus GmbH was established by a merger of the former Daimler Benz AG …
Daimler Truck wins VDA Logistics Award 2025: First place for “Electrify Inbound Logistics” project
19 Feb 2025
Daimler Truck is driving the transformation of the transport industry towards CO2-neutral drive systems and is also relying on e-trucks in its own …
Fully electric waste collection on the fan mile: The Mercedes-Benz eActros 300 cleans up at the World Ski Championships
19 Feb 2025
From February 4 to 16, Saalbach-Hinterglemm in Austria became the stage for international ski sports and hosted this year's FIS Alpine World Ski Ch…
Daimler Truck ProCent: Employees and Company Donate Approximately 270,000 Euros to Charitable Projects in 2024
19 Feb 2025
Daimler Truck and its employees continued their longstanding commitment to charitable projects in 2024. Through the ProCent initiative, approximate…
Daimler Truck all-electric brand RIZON hands over first truck in Canada to custom home-builder company
19 Feb 2025
RIZON, Daimler Truck’s all-electric brand for the North American market, recently handed over its first dump body truck in Canada. The RIZON e18L…
Mercedes-Benz Trucks at bauma 2025: Sustainable vehicle, service, and mobility solutions for construction transport
18 Feb 2025
Whether it’s road and pathway construction, material transport, temporary infrastructure, or complex traffic conditions, few sectors face such de…
Versatility for the construction sector: Daimler Truck brand FUSO is presenting three variants of the Canter at bauma 2025
18 Feb 2025
At this year's bauma (7-13th April in Munich), the Daimler Truck brand FUSO is again demonstrating the versatility and exceptional ease of body mou…
Tevex Logistics modernises its fleet with 150 new Mercedes-Benz Actros L vehicles for greater efficiency and safety
06 Feb 2025
At the end of January, at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth the handover of 14 Actros L trucks with the new ProCabin to Tevex Logistics GmbH was ce…
European premiere: first four Mercedes Benz eCitaro K buses will be operated in Asti in the Italian region of Piedmont
05 Feb 2025
The year 2025 in local public transport in the Italian city of Asti is getting off to an electric start and, at the same time, is also celebrating …
Daimler Truck subsidiary FUSO demonstrates recycling of eCanter batteries in energy storage systems
05 Feb 2025
Daimler Truck cares about the future of the planet. In view of limited resources, the circular economy plays a decisive role. Mitsubishi FUSO Truck…
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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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