who depend on fishing. plans to revamp truck plants owned by its chinese a joint venture partner photon to build mercedes-benz branded heavy trucks in china under the plant photo and will reportedly adversities ben s branded actually as heavy trucks to its production lines savings bonds truck bends trucks currently sold in china are imported the truck market in china is holding up well despite declining auto sales this is because of growth in e-commerce and improved logistics infrastructure us month photons parent beijing auto bought a 5 percent stake in dimer. cuban cigars a stroll on havana s famous malecon while classic cars drive by many americans have enjoyed their trips to cuba over the past 2 years after travel sanctions to the communist country were loosened under the obama administration today the situation is quite different. tourism was supposed to be
brunt of this from the diesel emissions scandal it s. remember the time we were not glamorous there either so there s been a few negatives during his time in charge so his successor i mean he inherits as you ve highlighted there are some challenging conditions look we expect from him for the 2 big things that s interesting about the success or 2 of the major prerequisites historically for german business leaders of particularly in the car industry has been one that you re german and 2 that you re an engineer he s neither he s swedish and he s prempro already a financial guy he has no real doctorate in engineering he for the last 2 and a half years he s been leading their research and development division that s primarily involved looking into these big transformations that i m talking about so autonomous driving internet of things technology and of course the big one the switch to electro ability so that s really what his major challenge will be can be restructured dimer and can he lea
just walk us through though the highs the lows of his career as we look back well it was the most obvious high is the fact that for 13 years a c.e.o. has consistently been a profitable highly profitable company so that s made a more proper chair. holders the big thing that you find that he generally gets credit for is that when he took over in 2006 dimer was going through a very difficult merger the merge from hell as it was known with chrysler he managed to extricate them from the us and then lead them through that period into a successful operation in their own right as diner and then after the financial crisis he also led the mercedes brand and he made that one of the leading brands in the luxury market to get ahead of b.m.w. and so they re his big achievements ready to take it out of the chrysler period in the return of consistent profitability in terms of the lows i suppose the you can t escape the fact that at the 28 it was quite a bad year for diameter their their figures were d
of german carmaker dime lead teacher teacher is stepping down to make her produce successor all of colonialist said show wasn t one of the most recognizable faces in terms of business and lead dimer for more than a decade. you re watching you know being is up next the debate about the e.u. is open borders that s made in germany coming up after the break i m irish waiter thanks so much for joining us.