Mercedes-Benz plans to boost S-Class production to keep up with increasing demand

Daimler has recently announced that Mercedes-Benz will ramp up production of the new S-Class citing a strong demand.

To meet an increasing customer demand for their flagship model, Mercedes-Benz’s employees will work an extra 74 minutes a day starting 2014 at the Sindelfingen assembly plant located in Germany. Already they increased work time by 30 minutes a day this year and also worked four Saturday shifts. In addition, the firm’s Bremen factory added ten extra shifts for November and December to keep up the pace with GLK and C-Class demand.

From January through November, sales of the company rose by 11 percent as compared to the same period of 2012. The company sold 1.32 million vehicles until the end of November, almost matching the number of delivered cars in 2012.

This increase in sales could be possible only by adding no less than 21 additional shifts from January through November at the Rastatt factory where they make the A- and B-Class models. U.S. dealers had been already informed by Mercedes-Benz that supply for the CLA in the first half of next year (in 2014) will be limited as a result of a strong worldwide demand.