Daimler-Benz AG and Chrysler Corporation, represented by Jürgen Schrempp and Robert Eaton, announce their merger to form DaimlerChrysler. In a so-called “merger of equals,” or “marriage made in heaven,” according to its then CEO and architect Jürgen E. Schrempp, Daimler-Benz, and United States–based automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation, the smallest of the main three American automakers, merged in 1998 in an exchange of shares and formed DaimlerChrysler AG. Valued at US$38 billion, it was the world’s largest ever cross-border deal. The terms of the merger allowed Daimler-Benz’s non-automotive businesses such as Daimler-Benz InterServices AG, “debis AG” for short, to continue to pursue their respective strategies of expansion. debis AG reported revenues of $8.6 bn (DM 15.5 bn) in 1997. The merger was contentious with investors launching lawsuits over whether the transaction was the ‘merger of equals’ that senior management claimed or actually amounted to a Daimler-Benz takeover of Chrysler. A class action investor lawsuit was settled in August 2003 for US$300 million while a suit by billionaire investor activist Kirk Kerkorian was dismissed on 7 April 2005. The transaction claimed the job of its architect, Chairman Jürgen E. Schrempp, who resigned at the end of 2005 in response to the fall of the company’s share price following the transaction. We celebrate this merger with a classic Chrysler Le Baron convertible …
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