Have you ever heard of the company Bosch? How much information do you know about this company? Do you know that it is one of the most popular businesses around the world, conducting activities related to automobile manufacturers, household appliances and new age technology and research development? It is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of automobile parts.




Whenever you want to buy some new auto parts for your cars and you walk into a store, the most popular name you will find there will be Bosch. Headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, it has entrepreneurial relationships with most car manufacturers around the world and it registered sales in all of its world-wide subsidiaries of over 40 billion euros in 2006 alone.

The owner of the company is not a person as you might think, even though it was founded in 1886 by Robert Bosch, nor a group of people. Over 92 percent of the companies shares are owned by a charitable foundation. The profits of the company are divided strangely to say the least. Most of them are reinvested in the company itself in order to sustain its development and growth, but the ones that are distributed among its shareholders are also offered to humanitarian causes.

If you want to know some numbers, you should brace yourself. In 2004 the profits this company registered rose to more than 2 billion dollars. Out of this enormous sum, only 78 million reached its shareholders as dividends. Even though you might think this is a very small amount, think again. Out of the 78 million in dividends, 72 million dollars ended up in the charitable foundation, which means that only 6 million dollars, not even 0.3 percent was distributed as dividends for the family shareholders.

Considering the investments of the company, a very notable fact is the investment in research and development. While many automobile manufacturers invest less than five percent in improving their creations, this company attributes more than nine percent. This is why the Bosch auto parts you find in every store will always be better than what the rest of the competitors have to offer.

What makes it interesting is that whenever you walk into a store, you will see there are lots of companies manufacturing different auto parts for different vehicles. But Bosch auto parts can be found in every category. This happens because this German company has developed relationships over time with most car manufacturers around the world and it builds products according to the specifications of the original manufacturer, if not even better.

Considering the number of improvements this company brought to our lives, it can be considered one of the most important technology developers in the world. Did you know that Bosch was the company that invented the magneto, a small device capable of delivering a spark, which was used in most pioneering internal combustion engines? The logo of the company still consists of the rudimentary design of this development.

This was also the company that invented that Anti-lock Breaking System, also known as ABS, which can be found in most recent car models. There are lots of other things that were developed over time, most of which are part of our daily lives. As far as Bosch auto parts go, even the most relatively insignificant parts such as wipers, cooling fans, spark plugs and any other aftermarket accessory you can mount on your car, they generate over one billion dollars in sales world-wide.

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