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Car manufacturers in crisis: BMW profits slump by 37 percent
Key FactsBMW reports 37 percent profit decline
Mar 14, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: focus.de
  • BMW’s 2024 profit fell 37 percent to €7.7 billion, while revenue declined 8.4 percent to €142 billion.

  • According to the report, BMW was affected by weaker sales in China and problems with Continental-supplied brakes.

  • Volkswagen reported a 31 percent profit decline to €12.4 billion, while Mercedes-Benz’s fell 28 percent to €10.4 billion.

  • For 2025, BMW expects rising demand and pretax profit roughly at 2024 levels, but provides no net-profit forecast.
  • The current figures are not bad. They only look bad in comparison with the exceptional years
    — Industry expert Frank Schwope, lecturer in automotive economics at the Fachhochschule des Mittelstands in Cologne and Hannover; quoted in Focus