{
  "id": 16150052,
  "title": "Morning Briefing: Can Mercedes still be saved?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/morning-briefing-ist-mercedes-noch-zu-retten",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-23T04:15:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/morningbriefing/morning-briefing-ist-mercedes-noch-zu-retten/100264326.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Mercedes-Benz is facing one of the toughest crises in its history, with shrinking profits and declining sales. In the second quarter, the car division achieved a meager 0.2 percent return on sales. The company has sold 1.24 million cars from January to September, a 7 percent drop from the same period last year. Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is attempting to turn things around with a major plan, including cutting several thousand temporary workers and shifting some production abroad. The company also plans to adopt a modular design approach, building future models from interchangeable modules.",
  "summary": "Mercedes is losing sales and profit margins, and its workforce is also becoming increasingly restless. Whether the company will remain a global player or shrink to a regional brand now depends on a rescue plan.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}