Industry Automotive Key people Knudt Flor (President) | Area served Worldwide | |
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Type Limited liability company Founded 1992 (1992), Greer, South Carolina Headquarters Greer, South Carolina, United States | ||
The BMW US Manufacturing Company is a vehicle assembly facility that is part of the BMW Group and is located in Greer, South Carolina; it is BMW's only assembly plant in the United States. The plant's principal purpose is to assemble certain BMW models for the world market. It does not assemble all the BMW models sold in the U.S. market. The plant is currently BMW's sole global production site for X3, X4, X5, and X6 cross-over SUVs. These models are exported from BMW Spartanburg.
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BMW announced in 1992 that it would build a 1,150-acre (4.7 km2) manufacturing facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States to strengthen its international production system. The plant opened in 1994.
The $2.2 billion plant, which employs 8,000, is one of the company’s global five-plant production network.
In addition to the South Carolina manufacturing facility, BMW's North American companies include sale, marketing, design, and financial services operations in the United States, Mexico and Canada, as well as throughout Latin America.
The automaker announced in 2014 an additional $1 billion investment in the facility that will make South Carolina BMW's largest factory, with an annual capacity of 450,000 units. There were 364,000 vehicles produced in 2014, of which 70% were exported to 140 countries. The plant is second only to the plant in Dingolfing, Germany in BMW vehicle production.