Focus on automotive: BMW
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09/19/2017BMW Italia President and CEO Sergio Solero handed over to the Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella a unit of the i3 electric at a ceremony organized in Piazza della Signoria.The Group responded to a public announcement by the Fiorentine Municipality to undertake experimentation of zero emission vehicles and the i3 was given in a free use for... -
09/15/2017DriveNow, the car sharing service of the joint venture between BMW Group and Sixt SE, is now operational also in Lisbon, where a collaboration with the franchising partner Brisa Group, the leading private transport infrastructure operator in Portugal, has been started.Thus now thirteen cities come to use the service. The initial fleet for Lisbon... -
09/15/2017Works are going fast to build the new Mexican factory in San Luis Potosi, which BMW has strongly wanted to strengthen its operations throughout North America.Already over 60% of the factory is ready and operations will officially start in April 2019 with initial production of about 150,000 units per year starting from the 3-Series.But the plant... -
09/13/2017The BMW Group's Asian division announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the local Truong Hai Automobile JSC (Thaco) to be represented as the official BMW and MINI dealer in the emerging Southeast Asian market starting from 1 January 2018.Thaco was founded 20 years ago and it is already working on producing and distributing... -
09/11/2017BMW is celebrating the milestone of 4 million vehicles produced at the American factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, exactly 23 years after the first unit was produced at the plant.The milestone is represented by an X3 destined for a Viennese dealer of the Bavarian Group.Over the next three years, BMW will invest another 600 million dollars to... -
07/27/2017The subsidiaries of BMW Italia, BMW Milan and BMW Rome have become authorized dealers for the BMW Group Classic for classic cars and bikes.Italy becomes the second European country after Germany to get this certification, while at the global level there are also the USA.BMW Milano and BMW Roma are nowadays equipped with a series of professional... -
07/25/2017The BMW Group announces a future investment of 200 million euros to strengthen the facilities of the Leipzig plant.The building work will start in the first months of the next year and it will include an extension of the paint shop and alternations in the bodyshop and assembly areas. The work is scheduled to finish in 2020 on time to produce the...