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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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