PARIS (Reuters) - German carmaker Daimler and its French rival Renault are in talks about taking equity stakes in each other to forge a long-term cooperation, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Citing two unnamed people briefed on the talks, the FT said the possible alliance would take the relationship beyond the talks about cooperation in small cars which are already taking place.
It said the stakes would likely be below 10 percent in each other.
No one at Renault was immediately available to comment.
Daimler is worth 37 billion euros ($50.9 billion) on the stock market, while Renault, which owns about a third of Japan's Nissan Motor, is valued at 9.7 billion, Reuters data shows.
In December, Renault confirmed talks with Daimler and others about partnerships to cut costs in areas such as engines, transmission platforms and access to new technologies.
The Financial Times said Daimler "urgently needed" a partner producing small cars, where the German group struggles to be profitable because of small scale and high variable costs.
But the two companies are also discussing working together in light trucks, the FT added, citing one of the people involved in the talks.
(Reporting by Marie Maitre in Paris and Jan Dahinten in Singapore; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and David Holmes)
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Citing two unnamed people briefed on the talks, the FT said the possible alliance would take the relationship beyond the talks about cooperation in small cars which are already taking place.
It said the stakes would likely be below 10 percent in each other.
No one at Renault was immediately available to comment.
Daimler is worth 37 billion euros ($50.9 billion) on the stock market, while Renault, which owns about a third of Japan's Nissan Motor, is valued at 9.7 billion, Reuters data shows.
In December, Renault confirmed talks with Daimler and others about partnerships to cut costs in areas such as engines, transmission platforms and access to new technologies.
The Financial Times said Daimler "urgently needed" a partner producing small cars, where the German group struggles to be profitable because of small scale and high variable costs.
But the two companies are also discussing working together in light trucks, the FT added, citing one of the people involved in the talks.
(Reporting by Marie Maitre in Paris and Jan Dahinten in Singapore; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and David Holmes)
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