BMW
Munich-based premium car and motorcycle manufacturer with the BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad brands, listed in Frankfurt, with 2025 revenues of EUR 133.5 billion.
Industry: Automotive manufacturing | Location: Munich, Germany | Founded: 1916
About BMW
BMW AG, formally Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, is a German manufacturer of premium cars and motorcycles. Its registered office is in Munich, and it sells BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce cars and BMW Motorrad motorcycles alongside premium financial services. At the end of 2025 it employed 154,540 people, operated more than 30 production sites and sold about 2.46 million cars in 140 markets.
The company's history page dates its founding to 7 March 1916, when Bayerische Flugzeugwerke was established, and says the BMW name first appeared in 1917. BMW unveiled its first motorcycle in 1923, entered car production in 1928, bought Rover Group in 1994 and kept MINI when it sold Rover in 2000, and acquired the Rolls-Royce brand rights in 1998. The first model of its Neue Klasse generation, the iX3, was introduced in 2025.
Milan Nedeljković became chairman of the Board of Management on 14 May 2026, succeeding Oliver Zipse, who had held the post since August 2019. Nicolas Peter chairs the Supervisory Board, and Walter Mertl has led finance since May 2023.
For 2025 BMW Group reported revenues of EUR 133.5 billion, down from EUR 142.4 billion in 2024, a profit before tax of EUR 10.2 billion and a net profit of EUR 7.5 billion.
BMW Group Middle East, headed by Managing Director Karim-Christian Haririan and datelined in Dubai, reported in January 2026 that BMW brand sales in the region grew 10 percent in 2025, MINI sales 16 percent and corporate sales 28 percent. In June 2026 it added the STARZPLAY streaming service to in-vehicle systems in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and Jordan, and it plans to enter Syria through an importer. TechScoop reported in September 2026 that BMW is the named technology partner for the development of Ceer, the Saudi electric vehicle brand owned by the Public Investment Fund. In April 2026 BMW i Ventures announced a third fund of USD 300 million, bringing its capital under management to USD 1.1 billion.
Leadership
- Milan Nedeljković, Chairman of the Board of Management
- Nicolas Peter, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Walter Mertl, Member of the Board of Management, Finance
- Jochen Goller, Member of the Board of Management, Customer, Brands, Sales
- Joachim Post, Member of the Board of Management, Development
- Raymond Wittmann, Member of the Board of Management, Production
- Nicolai Martin, Member of the Board of Management, Purchasing and Supplier Network
- Dorothea von Boxberg, Member of the Board of Management, People and Labour Relations