Beijing Benz

Beijing Benz
Beijing Benz
Simplified Chinese	北京奔驰
Traditional Chinese	北京奔馳
Literal meaning	Beijing Benz
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Běijīng Bēnchí
Wade–Giles	Pei3-ching1 Pen1-ch'ih2
IPA	[pèɪ̯tɕíŋ pəntʂʰɨ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Bākgīng Bānchìh
Jyutping	Bak1 ging1 ban1 ci4

Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd.
	Headquarters in Daxing District, Beijing
Company type	Joint venture
Industry	Automotive
Founded	August 8, 2005
Headquarters	Beijing, China
Area served	China
Products	Automobiles
Owner	BAIC Motor (51%); Mercedes-Benz Group (49%)
Website	bbac.com.cn

Beijing Benz (officially Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd) is an automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Beijing, China, and a joint venture between BAIC Motor and Mercedes-Benz Group.^[2]^[3]

It was originally established in January 1984^[4] as a joint-venture with BAIC Motor of Beijing, China and American Motors Corporation (AMC) of Michigan, USA therefore named as Beijing Jeep Corporation (Chinese: 北京吉普汽车有限公司). It was the first Chinese auto-making joint venture with a Western partner. The joint venture continued after AMC was acquired by Chrysler in 1987, when Chrysler merged with German automaker Daimler-Benz AG in 1998 and finally ended their partnership in 2005.

^ Corporate profile Archived 2019-09-03 at the Wayback Machine on BBAC
^ "Daimler Northeast Asia". Mercedes-Benz China. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
^ "2009 Annual Report, 2. Significant acquisitions and dispositions of interests in companies and of other assets and liabilities". Daimler AG. Archived from the original on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
^ "Beijing Jeep founding date included in BAIC car index". Archived from the original on 2020-05-02. Retrieved 2020-03-02.

[1] Corporate profile Archived 2019-09-03 at the Wayback Machine on BBAC

[2] "Daimler Northeast Asia". Mercedes-Benz China. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2011.

[dameofficial-3] "2009 Annual Report, 2. Significant acquisitions and dispositions of interests in companies and of other assets and liabilities". Daimler AG. Archived from the original on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 9 March 2011.

[4] "Beijing Jeep founding date included in BAIC car index". Archived from the original on 2020-05-02. Retrieved 2020-03-02.

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