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Continental AG, commonly known as Continental or colloquially as Conti, is a German multinational automotive parts manufacturing company specializing in
tires A tire (American English) or tyre (British English) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a Rim (wheel), wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide Traction (engineering), t ...
,
brake A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system. It is used for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, wheel, axle, or to prevent its motion, most often accomplished by means of friction. Background ...
systems, interior electronics,
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,
powertrain A drivetrain (also frequently spelled as drive train or sometimes drive-train) is the group of components that deliver mechanical power from the prime mover to the driven components. In automotive engineering, the drivetrain is the components o ...
and
chassis A chassis (, ; plural ''chassis'' from French châssis ) is the load-bearing framework of an artificial object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function. An example of a chassis is a vehicle frame, the underpart ...
components,
tachograph A tachograph is a device fitted to a vehicle that automatically records its speed and distance, together with the driver's activity selected from a choice of modes. The drive mode is activated automatically when the vehicle is in motion, and ...
s, and other parts for the automotive and transportation industries. Continental is structured into six divisions: Chassis and Safety, Powertrain, Interior, Tires, ContiTech, ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). It is headquartered in
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,
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. Continental is the world's fourth-largest tire manufacturer. Continental sells tires for automobiles,
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, and
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worldwide under the Continental brand. It also produces and sells other brands with more select distribution such as Viking (limited global presence),
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(US/Canada),
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(Canada, Spain, Nordic Markets), Semperit Tyres, Barum to serve EU & Russia. Other brands are ''Uniroyal'' (Europe), Sportiva, Mabor and
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and formerly Sime/Simex tyres (now Dunlop Tyres Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei). Continental's customers include all major automobile, truck and bus producers, such as
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, BharatBenz,
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, Iveco,
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, Koegel,
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, BMW,
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,
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,
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, PSA and
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History

Continental was founded in 1871 as a
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manufacturer, ''Continental-
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und
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Compagnie''. In 1898, Continental started development and production of the vehicle tires with plain tread, which was the major success of the brand. In 1904, Continental became the first company in the world to manufacture grooved vehicle tires. Another major product Continental invented was detachable wheel tire that was made for touring vehicles (1905). In the late 1920s, Continental merged with several other major rubber industry companies to form the largest rubber company in Germany "Continental Gummi-Werke AG".


Nazi era

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, all members of the Board of Management as well as the authorized signatories and directors of the second management level were obliged to join the Nazi party, the Works Council was purged of "opponents of the regime," and all Jewish members of the Supervisory Board were forced to resign. As early as the end of 1933, the Executive Board could proudly announce that Continental was now "a Christian and purely German company" As with many other German companies during
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, Continental used
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provided by the
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in their factories in the 1940s at Hannover-Stöcken, Hannover-Limmer, Hannover-Ahlem, and others, all offshoots of the
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Postwar

Continental teamed up with FATE in 1999 for the production of tires for cars, trucks, and buses in Argentina and exportation of the San Fernando plant's production to the rest of South America. In 2001, Continental acquired a controlling interest in Temic, DaimlerChrysler's automotive-electronics business, which is now part of Continental Automotive Systems. The company also purchased German automotive rubber and plastics company
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in 2004, and the automotive electronics unit of
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in 2006. Continental acquired
Siemens VDO VDO is a German brand of Continental Automotive which makes automotive electronics and mechatronics for powertrains, engine management systems and fuel injection systems. A full range of Tachograph, Data Management, and Telematics products are p ...
from
Siemens AG Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', ''E ...
in 2007. Also in 2007, the company began to construct a plant in Costa Rica to produce powertrain components for North America. The plant was to open in two phases and ultimately employ 550 workers. In 2008, Continental appeared overextended with its integration of VDO and had since lost almost half of its
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when it found itself to be the
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target of the family-owned Schaeffler AG. By 2009, Schaeffler successfully installed the head of its motor division at the helm of Continental. Continental was ranked third in global
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automotive parts sales in 2012 according to a study sponsored by
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. On 6 September 2012, Continental returned to the benchmark
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index of 30 selected German blue chip stocks after a 45-month absence. IHO Group (investment holding of the Schaeffler family) is the controlling shareholder and currently owns 46% of Continental shares. In November 2018, Continental purchased
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Tyre and Auto in Australia from
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for A$350 million. On 13 November 2020, it was announced that Nikolai Setzer would take over as CEO following the short-notice resignation of Elmar Degenhart. In February 2021, Continental announced that it acquired a
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in Recogni, a German-U.S. start-up, to advance its autonomous driving technology. The start-up is working on a new
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architecture for
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in real time based on
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. In December 2021, as a result of a diplomatic spat between
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and China over
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and
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China pressured Continental AG to stop doing business with Lithuania. In April 2022, Continental resumed production of tires in Russia despite
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due to
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Interior Division

The Interior Division is organised under the following five business units: * Body & Security * Commercial Vehicles & Aftermarket * Infotainment & Connectivity * Intelligent Transportation Systems * Instrumentation & Driver HMI * Autonomous Mobility Body & Security is leading the development of Vehicle Electronics and Cabin Control Systems, with R&D locations in Germany, United States, China, Singapore, Mexico, India, and many other locations around the world, allowing a global reach to nearly every market region.


Schaeffler takeover

When Continental decided to purchase
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' brake and chassis business for $1.93 billion in 1998, the head of ITT's brake division, Juergen M. Geissinger, was hired as the CEO of the family-owned bearing and auto parts manufacturer
Schaeffler Group Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, also known as Schaeffler Group (''Schaeffler-Gruppe'' in German), is a German manufacturer of rolling element bearings for automotive, aerospace and industrial uses. It was founded in 1946 by brothers Dr. ...
. Ten years later, Geissinger returned to Continental with mother-and-son owners Maria-Elisabeth and Georg Schaeffler and a
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of banks, to buy control of the company. Continental appeared to have overextended itself with the acquisition of Siemens' VDO automotive unit in 2007 for €11.4 billion and had lost almost half of its
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since. In August 2008 and after a protracted standoff, Continental agreed to be taken over by the Schaeffler Group in a deal that valued the company at approximately €12 billion. Schaeffler in return agreed to limit its position to less than 50% for a period of four years and support Continental's ongoing strategy. This arrangement was overseen by former
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. Continental's CEO Manfred Wennemer, who had opposed Schaeffler's offer, resigned and was succeeded by Karl-Thomas Neumann on 1 September 2008. Less than one year later, Schaeffler's CEO Juergen Geissinger succeeded in installing his longtime confidant (and former leader and later head of ITT Teves/Continental Brake and Chassis Division) Elmar Degenhart, the head of his automotive division, as the new chief executive of Continental, ousting Neumann. At Continental's 2013 annual shareholder meeting Schaeffler gave notice that it will terminate its mutual investment agreement with Continental in May 2014, on which Elmar Degenhart commented, "Notice of termination of the investment agreement is understandable from the vantage point of Schaeffler, our anchor shareholder. We are confident that the two companies will continue their very good and goal-oriented cooperation on into the future."


Continental Tire the Americas, LLC

Continental Tire entered the North American tire industry with its 1987 purchase of General Tire from GenCorp, forming Continental General Tire Corp . At the time, Continental was following other tire manufacturers, such as Bridgestone and
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, into the American tire market. The headquarters for North and South American tire divisions is located in the
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at Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States. The North American headquarters of the CAS division is located in Auburn Hills, Michigan, directly east of the
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mall. Continental also has a research and development arm in the tech-heavy Silicon Valley, where, among other things, the company focuses on developing technologies supporting autonomous driving vehicles. From 2002 through 2005, the subsidiary sponsored a new
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in
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, known for three playings as the
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. At the time, Continental was a major employer in Charlotte. However, as financial woes set in at the division
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took over sponsorship of the Charlotte bowl game from Continental. The first two Continental Tire Bowls were both won by
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; the third and final (by that name) edition of the bowl was won by
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. The subsidiary announced that effective 1 January 2006, it would implement massive cuts on health care for retirees across the country. After a class-action lawsuit, the company and
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union, representing the retirees, agreed to a settlement whereby the company would continue to fund benefits. Later that year, it announced it would cease tire production in Charlotte and would close its tire production plant in Mayfield, Kentucky. In 2011, CTA announced that it would build a plant in
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. The plant will cost about $500 million and employ 1,600 workers by 2020. In February 2016, CTA announced that it would build a Commercial Tire plant in
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, with an investment totaling approximately $1.4 billion and employing 2,500 people when the plant reaches full capacity in the next decade. In October 2016, CTA purchased
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.


Automotive electrical-energy storage systems

Continental was one of the companies bidding to work with GM to provide the battery pack for the
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extended-range
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(E-REV). It is the primary contractor for a system using
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batteries from
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. GM instead signed a contract to assemble packs with cells purchased from
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. Continental continues to look at developments and innovation in the field of Automotive electrical-energy storage systems. These include developing solutions for gasoline and diesel driven engines as well as the rapidly-developing area of electrified systems. By offering a comprehensive technology toolkit to auto manufacturers, they enable these manufacturers to develop customised electrification in their vehicles, resulting in more efficient systems that produce lower emissions.


Automotive PACE Awards

In April 2016, Continental AG together with
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's US subsidiary, were honored with the 2016 Automotive News PACE Innovation Partnership Award for the Bidirectional Long Range Communications (BLRC) System, developed by the Body and Security Team in the Interior Division. The Radio Frequency Device, helps the car user to operate a remote control key fob from more than half a kilometer away, to start the engine and climate control function, while receiving feedback from the vehicle (such as locked/unlocked). The Radio Frequency System, powered by a single standard coin cell, and an innovative vehicle-mounted RF
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, was developed together by Honda and Continental, and was debuted on the
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in 2013 and was quickly followed by the
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and
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in 2014. In 2015, Continental AG was honored with two PACE Awards for its Bare Die High-Density-Interconnect (BD-HDI)
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Substrate Technology for Transmission Electronics and its Multi-application Unified Sensor Element (MUSE). In 2018, Continental won a PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contribution to Excellence) Award for its Digital Micromirror Head-Up Display technology. Along with
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, Continental also received an Innovation Partnership Award for their Safety Domain Control Unit (SDCU). In 2020, Continental won an inaugural PACEpilot award for its Virtual A-Pillar technology that helps to eliminate forward blind spots. PACEpilot is an offshoot of the long-standing PACE awards, and the programmes seeks to recognise innovations in automative technology that have moved to the working model phase of testing.


Executive management


Chief executive officer

* 1973–1982: Carl Hahn * 1991–1999: Hubertus von Grünberg * 1999–2001: Stephan Kessel * 2001–2008: Manfred Wennemer * 2008–2009: Karl-Thomas Neumann * 2009–30 November 2020: Elmar Degenhart * 1 December 2020–present: Nikolai Setzer


Chairman of the board

* Unknown–1989: Alfred Herrhausen * 1999–2009: Hubertus von Grünberg * 2009–2009: Rolf Koerfer (6 March–28 September) * 2009–present:
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Supervisory board

* Werner Bischoff* * Michael Deister * Gunter Dunkel * Hans Fischl* * Juergen M. Geissinger *
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* Michael Iglhaut* * Jörg Köhlinger* * Klaus Mangold * Hartmut Meine* * Dirk Nordmann* * Artur Otto• *
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(Chairman) * Klaus Rosenfeld * Georg F. W. Schaeffler *
Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler (born 17 August 1941) is a German businesswoman and one of the owners of Schaeffler Group, one of and the world's largest producers of rolling bearings. The other owner is her son Georg Schaeffler, Georg F. W. Scha ...
* Jörg Schönfelder* * Bernd W. Voss * Siegfried Wolf * Erwin Wörle* * Aydin Aliyev* * Tural Omarov* '*' denotes labor representative


Acquisition of Veyance Technologies Inc.

Continental AG has acquired the American rubber company Veyance Technologies Inc. based in
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. Veyance will be integrated into the company's ContiTech division, and will serve as the regional home office for ContiTech in North America. The Brazilian
antitrust Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. It is also known as antitrust l ...
authority Council for Economic Defence (CADE) made it official on 29 January 2015, described in a press release on the 30th, from the company. The total transition was $1.6 billion. The company will divest Veyance's NAFTA air springs business in Mexico and its Brazilian steel-cord belting business in response to some of the concerns raised by antitrust authorities, the release said, employing about 600 people work in those operations.


See also

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Continental Automotive Systems Continental Automotive Systems (CAS), founded in 1906 by Alfred Teves, a division of the German Continental AG, was a brake and electronics supplier to the automotive industry, supplying systems, components, electronics, lithium-ion batteries and ...
– one of the five divisions *
Hoosier Racing Tire Hoosier Racing Tire is an American tire manufacturer primarily specializing in the production of tires for competition use. Headquartered in Lakeville, Indiana, the company was founded in 1957. Hoosier employs nearly 500 people, and has provided ...
– part of the tire division


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