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Rumor: BMW to hire former Audi sales boss Schwarzenbauer

Bloomberg reports on BMW’s alleged plans to hire Peter Schwarzenbauer, the former Audi AG sales chief. In an effort to maintains its lead in the premium segment, BMW is offering Schwarzenbauer a top-level management job…

BMW Manufacturing Expands Use of Hydrogen Fuel Cells

BMW Manufacturing Expands Use of Hydrogen Fuel Cells

BMW Manufacturing announced today the successful expansion of the company’s hydrogen fuel-cell material handling equipment across its 4.0 million square foot production facility. In 2010, BMW completed the installation of a hydrogen storage and distribution…

BMW overtakes Audi as global luxury sales leader

BMW of North America Announces Best Dealership Awards

BMW of North America, LLC today announced its annual Center of Excellence (COE) honors, awarded to the top performing dealerships in the U.S. Thirty-three of the 338 BMW dealers nationwide achieved “2013 Center of Excellence”…

DriveNow program expected to be profitable this year

DriveNow program expected to be profitable this year

Car sharing venture DriveNow, a partnership between BMW and European rental company Sixt AG, is expected to be profitable this year. The joint venture kicked off two years ago as a competitor to Daimler’s Car2go…

BMW Group starts the year with record sales

The BMW Group continued its positive momentum into the new year with sales increasing by 9.9% in January. A total of 123,276 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brand vehicles were delivered to customers (prev. yr. 112,164)….

Mercedes takes early U.S. luxury lead in January 2013

Earlier this month, BMW reported their January 2013 sales which increased 0.7 percent compared to the same month a year before. The 16,513 vehicles sold were boosted by a large increase in the X5 sales…