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the biggest foreign direct investments in Turkey with an
estimated total of Euro 710 million, and employs 4,900
people. Further, 3,500 persons are employed in its nation-
wide dealer and customer service network. Daimler AG
currently holds 67 per cent shares in Mercedes-Benz Türk
A.Ş.
Mercedes-Benz Türk produces city buses and coaches
at the Hoşdere bus plant in Istanbul and light, medium
and heavy duty trucks at the Aksaray truck plant. These
facilities are an important part of
Daimler AG’s development and
production network. The com-
pany also sells vehicles which are
exclusively produced in Turkey in
the domestic and export markets.
Further, the company imports and
sells Mercedes-Benz vans and all
passenger car brands of the Daim-
ler Group. In 2011 it sold 38,291
vehicles.
With a 56.8 per cent market share
in the domestic coach market and
37 per cent in the domestic truck
market of over 6 tonnes, Mercedes-
Benz Türk remains a leader in the
segment, thanks to its state-of-the-
art products. It is also the top bus
and truck exporter in Turkey (in
2011, 1,919 buses and 2,816 trucks
were exported), the main export
destination being Western Europe.
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