Who currently owns BMW?
BMW is owned by the BMW Group, a company with more than 100 years of history that also owns Mini and Rolls-Royce. BMW acquired MINI in 1996 and has owned it since then. MINI actually began, not as its own brand, but as model names for two different brands: the Austin Mini and Morris Mini.BMW is owned by the BMW Group, a company with more than 100 years of history that also owns Mini and Rolls-Royce.
Who owns 50% of BMW?
While half of the company is owned by the public, the other half is owned by the Quandt family, who have been long-time BMW shareholders. Here is the breakdown of ownership: 29% = Stefan Quandt: A German industrialist and engineer. Susanne Klatten: Successful investor and sister to Stefan Quandt. Anonymous BMW heirs (Stephan and Susanne Quandt) are worth $47 billion, but maintain a family tradition of avoiding public exposure. Learn the story of BMW’s owners, the anonymous billionaires Stephan Quandt and Susanne Klatten, and discover the Nazi past the family is trying to hide.As of August 2014, the Quandt family is estimated to be worth $46. Johanna Quandt died at the age of 89 in her home in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt am Main. She created the foundation Johanna Quandt Stiftung, to provide training for aspiring business journalists.