Rolls Royce
Rolls-Royce is a British brand; it may refer to:
Rolls-Royce Limited, the original company founded in 1906, and split into Rolls-Royce plc and Rolls-Royce Motors in 1973
Rolls-Royce plc, the aerospace, power systems and defense company.
Rolls-Royce Deutschland
Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations Ltd
Rolls-Royce North America
Rolls-Royce Corporation
Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Ltd.
Rolls-Royce AB, KaMeWa AB, then a part of Vickers plc
Rolls-Royce Motors, the car division comprising the Rolls-Royce and Bentley brands, separated from Rolls-Royce Limited in 1973. The company (now called Bentley Motors Limited) was acquired by Volkswagen in 1998, with the Rolls-Royce brand separately licensed (by Rolls-Royce plc) to BMW to establish a new car company (Rolls-Royce Motor Cars)
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, manufacturer of Rolls-Royce automobiles since 1999, a BMW subsidiary
List of Rolls-Royce motor cars a list of cars manufactured by Rolls-Royce Limited, Rolls-Royce Motors and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
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Bentley
Founded: 18 January 1919
Founder(s): Walter Owen Bentley
Headquarters: Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Wolfgang Dürheimer, CEO
Products: Cars
Revenue : £485.2 million (2010)
Employees: 3,726 (2010)
Parent: Volkswagen Group
Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just "W O". Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later versions of the Sopwith Camel. After the war W. O. Bentley designed and made production cars that won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1924 and following models which repeated those successes each June 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930.
Purchased by Rolls-Royce in 1931, when production was moved from London to Derby and later to Crewe, this business has been owned by the Volkswagen Group of Germany since 1998. The business is still based in Crewe, Cheshire, England with their Central Production Facilities there.
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Ferrari
Founded: 1947 (historical 1929)
Founder(s): Enzo Ferrari
Headquarters: Maranello, Italy
Key people: Chairman-Luca di Montezemolo
Vice Chairman- Piero Ferrari
CEO-Amedeo Felisa
Product: Sports cars
Production output: 6,573 units (2010)
Revenue: € 1,919 million (2010)
Owner(s): Fiat S.p.A. 90%
Employees: 2,721 (2010)
Parent: Fiat S.p.A.
Website: www.Ferrari.com
Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has had great success
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BMW
BMW (English: Bavarian Motor Works) is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1917. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands. In 2010, the BMW group produced 1,481,253 automobiles and 112,271 motorcycles across all its brands.
Industry: Automotive industry
Predecessor: Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG (BFW)
Founded: 1917
Founder(s): Franz Josef Popp
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Norbert Reithofer (CEO),
Joachim Milberg (Chairman of the supervisory
Products: Automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles
Revenue: €60.48 billion (2010)
Operating income: €5.094 billion (2010)
Profit: €3.218 billion (2010)
Total assets: €108.87 billion (end 2010)
Total equity: €23.10 billion (end 2010)
Employees: 95,450 (end 2010)
Subsidiaries: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Husqvarna
Website: wwww.bmw.com
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FIAT
Fiat(Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) (English: Italian Automobile Factory of Turin), is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli. During its more than century long history, Fiat has also manufactured railway engines and carriages, military vehicles, and aircraft. As of 2009, Fiat group was the world's ninth largest carmaker and the largest in Italy.
Fiat-based cars are built around the world. Outside Italy, the largest country of production is Brazil, where the Fiat brand is the market leader. The group also has factories in Argentina and Poland and a long history of licensing production of its products in other countries. It also has numerous alliances and joint ventures around the world, the principal ones being located in Italy, France, Turkey, Serbia, India and China.
Industry: Automotive, media, financial services, metallurgy
Founded: 11 July 1899 in Turin, Italy
Founder: Giovanni Agnelli
Headquarters: Turin, Italy
Key people: John Elkann (Chairman), Sergio Marchionne (CEO)
Products : Autos, auto parts, financing, newspaper publishing.
Production output: 2,094,048 units (automobiles and LCVs, 2010)
Revenue: €35.88 billion (2010)
Operating income: €992 million (2010)
Profit: €179 million (2010)
Total assets: €73.44 billion (end 2010)
Total equity: €12.46 billion (end 2010)
Employees: 137,800 (end 2010)
Website: www.fiatspa.com
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AUDI
Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand (German pronunciation: ), positioned as the premium brand within the Volkswagen Group.
The company is headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany, and has been a wholly owned (99.55%) subsidiary of Volkswagen AG since 1966, following a phased purchase of its predecessor, Auto Union, from its former owner, Daimler-Benz. Volkswagen relaunched the Audi brand with the 1965 introduction of the Audi F103 series.
The company name is based on the surname of the founder August Horch, his surname meaning listen in German—which, when translated into Latin, becomes Audi. The four rings each represent individual car companies that banded together to create the union.
Industry : Automotive industry
Founded: Zwickau, Germany (16 July 1909)
Founder(s): August Horch
Headquarters: Ingolstadt, Germany
Number of locations: Production locations:
Germany: Ingolstadt & Neckarsulm
Hungary: Győr
Belgium: Brussels
China: Changchun
India: Aurangabad
Brazil: Curitiba
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Rupert Stadler(Chairman),
Products : Automobiles, Engines
Production output: 1,143,902 units (2010)
Revenue : €35.441 billion (2010)
Profit: €1.850 billion (2009)
Total assets: €16.832 billion (2009)
Total equity: €3.451 billion (2009)
Employees: 46,372 (2009)
Parent: Volkswagen Group
Website: www.audi.com
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Mercedes
Mercedes was a brand of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG). DMG which began to develop in 1900, after the death of its co-founder, Gottlieb Daimler. Although the name was not lodged as a trade name until 23 June 1902 and had to wait until 26 September to be registered legally, the brand name eventually would be applied to an automobile model built by Wilhelm Maybach to specifications by Emil Jellinek that was delivered to him on 22 December 1900. By Jellinek's contract, the new model contained a newly designed engine designated "Daimler-Mercedes". This engine name is the first instance of the use of the name, Mercedes, by DMG. The automobile model would later be called, the Mercedes 35 hp.
Racer Emil Jellinek (1853-1918) used to race with the pseudonym "Mercedes", after the affectionate nickname he gave his daughter. He later adopted it as his surname, changing his full name to Jellinek Mercedes. Jellinek went on to help develop the Mercedes (car) car company
As part of the Daimler AG company, the Mercedes-Benz Cars division includes Mercedes-Benz, Smart and Maybach car production.
Industry: Manufacturing
Predecessor: Benz & Cie.
Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
Founded: 1886
Founder(s): Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler
Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Dieter Zetsche, Chairman
Products: Automobiles Car,Trucks,Buses.
Internal combustion engines
Services: Financial services
Parent: Daimler AG
Website www.mercedes-benz.com
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SUZUKI
Suzuki Motor Corporation (Suzuki Kabushiki-Kaisha)is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines. Suzuki is Japan's 4th largest automobile manufacturer after Toyota, Nissan and Honda, the 9th largest automobile manufacturer in the world by production volume,employs over 45,000, has 35 main production facilities in 23 countries and 133 distributors in 192 countries.[citation needed] According to statistics from the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), Suzuki is Japan's second-largest manufacturer of small cars and trucks.
Industry : Automobile
Founded: 1909 (as Suzuki Loom Works)
Founder(s): Michio Maruti Suzuki
Headquarters: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Area served: Worldwide
Key people Osamu Suzuki, (Chairman & CEO)
Products: Automobiles,Engines,Motorcycles
ATVs,Outboard Motors.
Production: 2,545,000 units (Automobiles) (2010)
2,902,000 units (Motorcycles) (2010)
Revenue: ¥2.47 trillion (FY2010)
Profit: ¥28.9 billion (FY2010)
Total assets: ¥2.38 trillion (FY2010)
Employees: 14,532 (2011)
Subsidiaries: Maruti Suzuki,Magyar Suzuki
Pak Suzuki Motor
Website:http://www.globalsuzuki.com/
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