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...Daimler-Benz...
...most other aspects of the proposed merger were left vague by the companies' spectacularly uninformative statement, but one thing is clear: the merged firm will be a giant. Sales of the two companies now total about $4 billion a year, a figure running fender-to-fender with Daimler-Benz and outranked in the European auto industry only by Volkswagen...
...best way to solve problems is to foresee them before they become problems." Those words from Dr. Joachim Zahn, chairman of the executive board of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, expressed as well as any the sense of an unusual meeting in Brussels this month. Nearly 40 chief executives of leading European and American business and banking firms assembled in the Common Market's headquarters city, under the auspices of TIME, for a colloquy on their common concerns...
...Tourist Holdings; Nino Rovelli, Societa Italiana Resine; Curt R. Strand, Hilton International; Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA; Hendrik A.C. Van Riemsdijk, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Bayerische Motoren Werke (B.M.W.); Gerrit A. Wagner, Royal Dutch Petroleum; Pierre Waltz, Societe Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogere; Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler-Benz...
...World War II. Though 80% of his holdings were confiscated and Flick served a five-year sentence after the war, he emerged from prison in 1950 and quietly began again. Within two decades he acquired control over more than 200 paper, steel, chemical and automobile companies, including 40% of Daimler-Benz. At his death, he was reputedly West Germany's wealthiest citizen...