Broad shareholder base

Daimler continues to have a broad shareholder base of approximately 1.3 million shareholders. At the end of 2008, the largest shareholder was the Kuwait Investment Authority with a holding of 7.6%. In addition, on February 20, 2008, Capital Research and Management Company informed us that it had exceeded the statutory disclosure threshold of 3% of voting rights and now held 3.03% of our shares.

In total, institutional investors held 69% of our equity and private investors held 24%. Approximately 76% of our stock was in the hands of European investors and approximately 16% was held by US investors. After falling for several years, the number of private investors entered in Daimler’s share register increased once again in 2008. At the end of the year, we had 37.1 million treasury shares (own shares bought back), equivalent to 3.8% of the outstanding shares. The weighting of Daimler shares in major indices decreased during the year due to the share-price development. In the German DAX 30 index, our stock was ranked in 9th position with a weighting of 5.38% (end of 2007: 8.16%). In the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 index, Daimler shares were represented with a weighting of 1.88% (end of 2007: 2.80%).

The global trading volume in Daimler stock amounted to 2.9 billion shares in 2008 (2007: 2.7 billion), of which 2,791 million were traded at German stock exchanges (2007: 2,511 million) and 120 million were traded on the New York Stock Exchange (2007: 154 million).