Carmakers built just 4.7 million
cars in Germany in 2019, industry data showed Monday, squeezing production to
its lowest level since 1997 as US-China trade tensions sapped vital foreign
markets.
More cars were registered on German roads in 2017 than in any year this decade, as sales continued a long-running growth streak, government and industry figures showed Thursday.
Adidas, the German maker of sportswear and equipment, announced Tuesday that it will start marketing its first series of sportshoes manufactured by robots in Germany from 2017.
Fears are growing in Germany that new EU rules could herald the demise of the “Made in Germany” merchandise mark – and with it a reputation for quality built up over decades.
German industrial production strongly rebounded in June driven by all sectors after people took advantage of the May bank holidays to extend their time off, official data showed on Wednesday.
Loewe, Germany's last major manufacturer of high-end televisions, is fighting for survival in a sector increasingly dominated in recent years by Asian rivals, filing for protection from its creditors as it hunts for new investors.
That two-year-old fridge that spluttered and died? The washing machine you had to replace after a year? Such planned obsolescence is no accident, with a new German study warning that many goods are not being made to last.
German steel group ThyssenKrupp said on Friday that talks to create a broad joint venture with Abu Dhabi MAR had broken down, a setback for the German company's plans to reduce debt.
The backbone of Germany’s booming economy isn’t huge industry – it's thousands of small and mid-sized firms spread across the country. The Local's David Wroe reports on the quiet achievers known as the <i>Mittelstand</i>.
German automaker Volkswagen will invest more than €50 billion in new and improved models over the next five years in a bid to unseat Toyota as the world leader in car manufacturing.
With Germany industry facing a looming skills shortage, Economy Minister Rainer BrĂĽderle revealed on Friday he was planning a major recruitment drive to attract skilled migrants.
Derided by many at pure kitsch not too long ago, the cuckoo clock is experiencing something of a renaissance. Artists, designers and clock manufacturers are now reinterpreting this so-very-German product.
Nearly 100,000 Volkswagen employees in Germany have had their jobs guaranteed until the end of 2014 under a deal struck between the carmaker and union officials on Tuesday.
The Indian arm of German engineering giant Bosch said Monday it would invest more than $400 million over two years to expand in the country's fast-growing diesel engine market.
One of President Barack Obama's senior economic advisors Paul Volcker said the US could take a leaf out of Germany's book when it comes to creating an export-based economy.
German industrial giant Siemens said Thursday it suffered a net loss of €1 billion in the last quarter of its 2008/09 fiscal year, and expected the current year to be worse.
Despite some more optimistic data for the German economy recently, Frank Bsirske, head of the service industries trade union Verdi, has warned of mass job losses in the autumn.
The German government’s newest economics advisor says a number of failing banks should be allowed to collapse, and predicted that hundreds of thousands of jobs would be lost in Germany.
German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp plans to cut another 3,000 jobs - more than previously expected, the <i>Financial Times</i> reported on Friday.
The German metal and electronics industries averted a potentially crippling strike after agreeing to a new wage deal with trade union IG Metall on Wednesday.
