Supervisory board chief Manfred Bischoff wants to extend the contract of Daimler CEO and Mercedes-Benz chief Dieter Zetsche when the board holds its first meeting in 2010.

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No one on the supervisory board wants Zetsche to depart, Financial Times Deutschland said, citing a weekend Der Spiegel magazine report.


A Daimler spokesman declined to comment.

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