BMW Group

BMW Group was founded on 7 March 1916 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany (Wikipedia). It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is a DAX component. Its brands are BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad.

On the software side it builds vehicle software and business IT, including through BMW Car IT and a network of IT and software hubs, several run as joint ventures: BMW TechWorks India with Tata Technologies, BMW TechWorks Romania with NTT Data, Critical TechWorks in Portugal with Critical Software, and BA TechWorks in Nanjing with Archermind Technology.

The company reports 154,540 employees at the end of 2025 and over 30 production sites. It says more than 10,000 developers from the Group and its hubs work together on vehicle software. Its hubs are in Pretoria (since 2006), Greenville (2013), Porto, Lisbon and Braga (2018), Nanjing (2021), Cluj-Napoca (2024) and Pune, Bangalore and Chennai (2024), plus tech offices in Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai.