Bosch
Robert Bosch GmbH, the Germany-based engineering and technology group working in mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods and energy and building technology, with about 91 billion euros in sales in 2025.
Industry: Engineering and technology | Location: Germany | Founded: 1886
About Bosch
Bosch is the Robert Bosch GmbH group, a German engineering and technology company. It operates in four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. Its website says it has about 500 subsidiary and regional companies in roughly 60 countries and about 412,800 associates as of 31 December 2025. Sales in 2025 were about 91 billion euros.
Robert Bosch founded the company in 1886 as a workshop for precision mechanics and electrical engineering in Stuttgart. It is not listed on a stock exchange. Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH holds about 94 percent of the share capital, while Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG holds about 93 percent of the voting rights and the Bosch family holds about 5 percent of the shares.
On 1 July 2026 Dr. Christian Fischer became chairman of the board of management. He succeeded Dr. Stefan Hartung, who stepped down on 30 June 2026 at his own request after chairing the board since 1 January 2022. Dr. Markus Forschner, the chief financial officer, and Dr. Markus Heyn, who heads the Mobility sector, became deputy chairmen. Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer chairs the supervisory board.
Mobility is the largest sector, with 55.8 billion euros in sales in 2025, about 60 percent of the group. In July 2025 Bosch completed what it calls the largest acquisition in its history, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning business bought from Johnson Controls and Hitachi, which added about 2 billion euros to sales in the first half of 2026. Multiverse Computing named Bosch as a customer in July 2026.
For 2025 Bosch reported sales of 91.0 billion euros, against 90.3 billion in 2024, and EBIT from operations of 1.8 billion euros, against 3.1 billion. In the first half of 2026 sales rose 3.6 percent to 46.4 billion euros and EBIT from operations was 2.2 billion euros, a margin of 4.6 percent. On 22 October 2026 Bosch announced that it will move its German Mobility business and three central service units into separate subsidiaries from 1 August 2027, affecting about 62,500 associates.
Leadership
- Christian Fischer, Chairman of the Board of Management
- Markus Forschner, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management and Chief Financial Officer
- Markus Heyn, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management and Chairman of the Mobility business sector
- Tanja Rückert, Member of the Board of Management (digital business, IT and cyber security, Industrial Technology)
- Frank Meyer, Member of the Board of Management (Energy and Building Technology)
- Stefan Grosch, Member of the Board of Management and Director of Industrial Relations
- Katja von Raven, Member of the Board of Management (Power Tools, Global Business Services, North and South America, Southeast Asia, Korea)
- Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board