Bosch
Technology and services (mobility, industry, consumer goods, energy and building) · Germany
Bosch is a foundation-owned German technology group that supplies car parts and software and sells power tools, home appliances and heating.
What makes it different
A charitable foundation owns almost all of it.
94%Capital held by the foundationDec 2025
The foundation has no say in strategy, while an industrial trust holds the votes, so Bosch invests for decades without outside shareholders.
How big it is
How big is Bosch?
€91.0BSales revenueFY2025
412,774Employees2025
€7.9BR&D spendFY2025
How it makes money FY2025
Mostly mobility, then tools and appliances.
- Mobility€55.8B
- Consumer Goods€19.9B
- Energy and Building Technology€8.5B
- Industrial Technology€6.5B
- Other activities€0.3B
How the business works
Supply carmakers. Sell brands. Reinvest.
- 1Parts and software to carmakers
- 2Tools, appliances, heating brands
- 3Research funded by own earnings
Car-parts engineering also feeds tools, appliances and heating, so research is shared across four sectors.
Brands and businesses
More than Bosch.
Who owns it
- Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH94%
- Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG93%
- ERBO II GmbH (Bosch family)5%
CEO: Christian Fischer
Who it competes with
Key moments
- 1886Robert Bosch opens his workshop in Stuttgart
- 1897Magneto ignition adapted to a vehicle engine
- 1898First sales office outside Germany
- 1928Power tools in 1928, first refrigerator in 1933
- 1964Corporate constitution takes shape
Sources
Every number on this page comes from Bosch's own reports.
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What Bosch tracks17 metrics
Employees
Associates in research and development
Locations worldwide
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
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Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from4 regions
Europe
Asia
Americas
The full timeline20 moments
2020
2025
2026
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