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| Company type | Joint venture |
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| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | August 8, 2005 [1] |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | China |
Key people | Arno van der Merwe (CEO) |
| Products | Automobiles |
| Owner | BAIC Motor (51%) Mercedes-Benz Group (49%) |
Number of employees | 20,000 total |
| Website | bbac.com.cn |
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| Simplified Chinese | 北京奔驰 | ||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 北京奔馳 | ||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Beijing Benz | ||||||||||||||||
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Beijing Benz (officially Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd) is an automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Beijing, China, and a joint venture between BAIC Motor and Mercedes-Benz Group.[2][3]
It was originally established in January 1984[4] as a joint-venture with BAIC Motor of Beijing, China and American Motors Corporation (AMC) of Michigan, USA therefore named as Beijing Jeep Corporation (Chinese: 北京吉普汽车有限公司). It was the first Chinese auto-making joint venture with a Western partner. The joint venture continued after AMC was acquired by Chrysler in 1987, when Chrysler merged with German automaker Daimler-Benz AG in 1998 and finally ended their partnership in 2005.
- ^ Corporate profile Archived 2019-09-03 at the Wayback Machine on BBAC
- ^ "Daimler Northeast Asia". Mercedes-Benz China. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ "2009 Annual Report, 2. Significant acquisitions and dispositions of interests in companies and of other assets and liabilities". Daimler AG. Archived from the original on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ "Beijing Jeep founding date included in BAIC car index". Archived from the original on 2020-05-02. Retrieved 2020-03-02.