The BMW Group : The Founder, Headquarter, Products And Other Things You Need To Know

BMW Headquarters in Munich, Germany

The BMW Group

Founded

7 March 1916; 105 years ago

Founders

Camillo Castiglioni

Franz Josef Popp

Karl Rapp

Headquarters

Munich, Germany

Key people

Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management

Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Products

Cars and motorcycles

Production output

2,255,637 cars (2020)

168,104 motorcycles (2020)

Brands

Automobiles

BMW, BMW i, BMW M, Mini
Rolls-Royce

Motorcycles

BMW Motorrad

Number of employees

133,778 (2019)

The BMW Group

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Bayerische Motoren Werke Group), commonly referred to as BMW, is a German multinational corporate manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

The corporation was founded in 1916 as a manufacturer of aircraft engines, which it produced from 1917 until 1918 and again from 1933 to 1945.

Today, it produces motor vehicles in Germany, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The company sell automobiles under the brands BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce (Mini and Rolls-Royce are UK-based), and motorcycles are marketed under the brand BMW Motorrad.

In 2017, BMW was the world’s fourteenth-largest producer of motor vehicles, with 2,279,503 vehicles produced. The company has significant motorsport history, especially in touring cars, Formula 1, sports cars and the Isle of Man TT.

The terms Beemer, Bimmer and Bee-em are sometimes used as slang for BMW in the English language and are sometimes used interchangeably for cars and motorcycles.

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