Day One: first day of trading for DaimlerChrysler share

  • Date
    17 November 1998
  • Description
    On "Day One", the first day of trading in the new DaimlerChrysler shares on the New York and Frankfurt stock exchanges and 19 other trading centres, the subsidiary companies Dasa and debis also change names. Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG begins trading as DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG and Daimler-Benz Interservices (debis) AG is renamed DaimlerChrysler Services (debis) AG.
Daimler-Benz AG and the US-American Chrysler Corporation amalgamate into a leading automobile, transport and service enterprise. Jürgen E. Schrempp (left), Chairman to the Board of Daimler-Benz AG and Robert J. Eaton, Chairman to the Board of Chrysler Corporation, against the background of the new stock symbol DCX.
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Jürgen E. Schrempp and Robert J. Eaton
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