Daimler will extend the contract of the head of its China division Hubertus Troska, who is also a board member, the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported at the weekend.

The supervisory board would extend his contract at its February meeting, the newspaper said without naming sources, according to Reuters.

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Troska’s contract was due to expire in 2015, the paper said in the summary of an article sent to media ahead its next publication date. He joined Daimler in 1988.

Daimler remains optimistic about sales growth in China in 2015 after delivering a record number of cars there in 2014.

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