Daimler Buses sold 28,700 buses and bus chassis worldwide in 2017 (2016: 26,200).
As a result, says the firm: “The Daimler bus division thus defended its absolute market leadership in its most important core markets: EU30 (European Union, Switzerland, Norway), Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.”
It reports “good prospects” for 2018 and “expects significant growth in unit sales and earnings.”
Hartmut Schick, Head of Daimler Buses and Chief Executive of EvoBus GmbH says: “Our year 2017 was successful. The market recovery in Latin America made a positive contribution to Daimler Buses’ 9% growth in unit sales.
“In Brazil alone, we sold 46% more buses in 2017 than in the previous year.
“In Asia, our unit sales increased by 33% and deliveries of complete buses in Europe were at the high prior-year level.
“This represents an outstanding performance by our worldwide bus team and we can be proud of it.
“We are optimistic for the current year as well, and expect unit sales and earnings to be significantly higher than in 2017.”
