Tag: Industry analysis
Merchants unite against shipping companies
Container ship “Laila” The Xstaff dealer association has chartered freighters like this several times. Dusseldorf The sluggish supply of goods from overseas means that European importers are increasingly resorting to…
Merchants unite against shipping companies
Container ship “Laila” The Xstaff dealer association has chartered freighters like this several times. Dusseldorf The sluggish supply of goods from overseas means that European importers are increasingly resorting to…
German economy is bunkering for fear of delivery bottlenecks
Dusseldorf Procurement difficulties and concerns about material shortages are driving demand from manufacturers of industrial primary products such as steel, semiconductors and plastics. Numerous companies from the relevant sectors are…
Trade fairs in Germany: a busy trade fair summer creates problems
Dusseldorf The Cologne exhibition halls are filling up again. More than 1,000 suppliers and around 25,000 trade visitors came to Anuga Foodtec, the supplier fair for the food industry, at…
Adidas sales in China collapse – doubts about the forecast
Adidas shop in Beijing Business in China continues to be difficult for western sporting goods manufacturers. (Photo: Reuters) Munich In the fight against Corona, China is closing many shops and…
CEO Carsten Knobel is too hesitant to convert the Persil manufacturer
Henkel boss Carsten Knobel The manager is rebuilding the consumer goods company. (Photo: Henkel) Carsten Knobel is not to be envied: the Henkel boss has been criticized for holding on…
Red figures – wind companies are in crisis
wind turbine The turbine manufacturers can hardly save themselves from orders. But they hardly earn anything from it. (Photo: imago images/Westend61) Dusseldorf Never before have so many new wind turbines…
Red figures – wind companies are in crisis
wind turbine The turbine manufacturers can hardly save themselves from orders. But they hardly earn anything from it. (Photo: imago images/Westend61) Dusseldorf Never before have so many new wind turbines…
Bank of England continues to raise interest rates
Bank of England The bank is raising interest rates again. (Photo: AP) London The central bank in London is bracing itself against high inflation with the fourth rate hike within…
Daimler Truck invests in tech start-up
Autonomous driving The digitization of cars, such as assistance systems or self-driving technology, requires operating software that, similar to computers or smartphones, enables functions and applications to be carried out…
China’s corona policy is weighing on the economy
Container port in Shanghai Concerns about a slump in the Chinese economy are growing. (Photo: dpa) Beijing The ongoing corona lockdowns in China are causing local business in European companies…
Private equity achieves particularly high returns in times of crisis
Frankfurt The extreme price fluctuations on the stock exchanges and the tense situation on the bond markets ensure a sustained flow of funds into another area: private equity. The generic…
The battery strategies of the German car manufacturers
Electric car from Mercedes The German car manufacturers are pursuing quite different strategies for the procurement of the central batteries. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf, Munich A new technology should make the…
That’s what pioneer Lithuania says about Germany’s LNG terminals
Floating LNG terminal Independence The special ship in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda gives the country independence from Russian gas supplies. (Photo: Getty Images) Berlin With the floating terminal for…
That’s what pioneer Lithuania says about Germany’s LNG terminals
Floating LNG terminal Independence The special ship in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda gives the country independence from Russian gas supplies. (Photo: Getty Images) Berlin With the floating terminal for…
Lufthansa faces these challenges
Lufthansa balance sheet check Rising costs meet a balance sheet that may be restructured, but where uncertainty and risk lurk. (Photo: Imago) Frankfurt Anyone who wants to get a feel…
Covid business continues to drive Pfizer
Paxlovid tablet from Pfizer With the corona drug, the pharmaceutical company wants to build a second mainstay in the treatment of Covid-19 in addition to the Comirnaty vaccine. (Photo: AP)…
The opponent is called Tesla, not Uber
Production at Mercedes-Benz in Sindelfingen The models of the manufacturers are getting bigger and more expensive. (Photo: Daimler AG) Munich In the end, empty phrases remain. BMW did “pioneering work”…
BMW and Mercedes sell carsharing to Stellantis
Munich Mercedes-Benz and BMW are exiting the car sharing business. The two southern German carmakers recently signed an agreement to sell their joint venture Share Now to Opel parent company…
BMW and Mercedes sell carsharing to Stellantis
ShareNow BMW and Mercedes are giving up their shared carsharing service. (Photo: dpa) Munich BMW and Mercedes-Benz want to sell their car-sharing service called “Share Now” to their competitor Stellantis.…