Long-time Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche will step down at the end of this year and hand the top leadership role to current sales chief Ola Källenius in 2019, but he's already on the hunt for a new job.

FRANKFURT -- Key Daimler investors oppose Dieter Zetsche's elevation to chairman of the automaker's supervisory board, according to a report in the German business paper Handelsblatt. Zetsche, 66, was ...

FRANKFURT -- Daimler's Dieter Zetsche will not seek to become chairman of the German carmaker's supervisory board, he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper. Zetsche, 67, a former CEO ...

Daimler chairman and CEO Dr. Dieter Zetsche will stop down from in May 2019. Zetsche will be replaced by current board member Ola Källenius. Källenius, a native of Sweden, will be Daimler's first ...

Daimler AG says it will appoint Swede Ola Kaellenius as chief executive in 2019. The move marks the first time a non-German will head the company. Current CEO Dieter Zetsche has been proposed as ...

A high-level executive shuffle is underway at German auto giant Daimler, parent of the Mercedes-Benz and Smart brands. Daimler confirmed Wednesday that longtime CEO Dieter Zetsche will pass the reins ...

Like a presidential candidate, Dieter Zetsche started barnstorming the United States on Monday, Nov. 10. Over the next six days, Chrysler group's CEO will visit eight sales regions to rally dealers ...

Current Mercedes chief Eckhard Cordes is leaving the troubled car maker at the end of August. Dieter Zetsche, who is to be DaimlerChrysler’s new CEO, is poised to take the lead at Mercedes. Mercedes ...

FRANKFURT - Daimler’s Dieter Zetsche will not seek to become chairman of the German carmaker’s supervisory board, he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper. Zetsche, 67, a former chief ...

We were to share an old Chrysler roadster in that hard-driving annual tribute to Italy’s Mille Miglia, its historical reenactment in early May beating from Brescia in the northeast down to Rome and ...

The man who turned Chrysler around is planning to use that magic on DaimlerChrysler’s other struggling child, Mercedes. After rolling up in a Jeep Commander in a leather jacket and baseball cap at the ...

11 Dec 2015, 17:19 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Dieter Zetsche, Daimler's CEO, is expected to retire in a few years. Without a plausible successor in sight, Zetsche claims he'd like to be replaced by a ...