https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German airline giant Lufthansa reported record profits for 2017 on Thursday, celebrating a year that saw it bury a smouldering dispute with pilots and gobble up parts of defunct rival Air Berlin. https://www.thelocal.de/20180315/lufthansa-soars-to-record-profits-in-2017 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:05:40 +0100 lufthansa-soars-to-record-profits-in-2017 Deutsche Post will be raising the price of sending a letter to 60 cents, it said on Friday. International mail prices will also increase but postcards will stay the same. https://www.thelocal.de/20131115/germanys-deutsche-post-pushes-up-prices Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:47:00 +0100 germanys-deutsche-post-pushes-up-prices Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, said on Tuesday that its profits had collapsed by 94 percent due to "substantial litigation charges" and falling gains in investment banking. https://www.thelocal.de/20131029/deutsche-bank-profits-collapse Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:04:00 +0100 deutsche-bank-profits-collapse Germany's Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz, said on Thursday its net profit rose in the third quarter, helped by higher car and truck sales as well as efficiency gains. https://www.thelocal.de/20131024/52559 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:28:00 +0200 52559 German automaker Daimler announced on Wednesday that its profits doubled in the second quarter, propelled in no small part by one-off gains from the sale of its stake in aerospace giant EADS. https://www.thelocal.de/20130724/51017 Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:24:00 +0200 51017 The difficulties of connecting wind-parks in the high seas to the national grid are harming Siemens' balance books. The technology giant is expecting to set aside a huge reserve for technical difficulties, eating into this year's profits. https://www.thelocal.de/20120417/41989 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:02:00 +0200 41989 Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, posted on Tuesday a second-quarter net profit of €1.2 billion, up from €1.1 billion in the same period a year earlier. https://www.thelocal.de/20100727/28765 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:58:00 +0200 28765 Despite the recession, falling profits and job layoffs, Germany’s biggest firms are set to pay out about €20 billion this year to their shareholders, a survey has found. https://www.thelocal.de/20100405/26339 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:11:00 +0200 26339 Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen has hit the skids this year with "extremely weak" economic conditions slashing profits and sending sales down sharply, results showed Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20090422/18799 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:05:00 +0200 18799 German luxury car maker Porsche said Tuesday that its first-half profit leapt fourfold owing to its stake in Volkswagen, but that auto sales were down and it could not give a full-year forecast. https://www.thelocal.de/20090331/18343 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:16:00 +0200 18343 Munich Re, the world's second biggest re-insurance group, on Wednesday posted a net profit of €1.5 billion for 2008, with a slight gain of around €100 million in the last quarter. https://www.thelocal.de/20090204/17195 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:26:00 +0100 17195