Key Figures

Daimler Financial Services increased its total contract volume by 4% to €60.4 billion in the second quarter of 2008. Compared with the prior year, 15 additional companies were fully consolidated for the first time, most of them in Asia and Eastern Europe. Adjusted for this effect and for exchange-rate effects, the increase was 8%. New business of €7.8 billion was 6% higher than in the second quarter of 2007.