BMW CEO Harald Krüger on healthy competition and alliances. A cross-shareholding with Daimler, he concludes.
Interview by Max Hägler Max Hägler
Max Hägler is a Department editor at Business. Born in Munich, studied political science there. While the civil service structure of a publishing GmbH. For the election to the Bundestag 2005 he began to report as a country correspondent for the “taz” from Bavaria. Since the summer of 2008, he is in the süddeutsche Zeitung: as a Bayern correspondent in Regensburg, and later as a business correspondent for Baden-Württemberg.
on Twitter, send an E-Mail
There are unusual Figures for the success-drenched car maker BMW. On Friday, the balance was announced, and everywhere a minus sign: 97,5 billion Euro profit (a minus of 0.8 percent compared to the previous year), € 7.2 billion in profit (minus 17 percent), and for the first time in ten years, the dividend should be reduced from four Euro to 3.50 Euro. A conversation with CEO Harald Krüger, 53, a sector under pressure, the need for new alliances.
SZ: Mr. Kruger, when were you last in …