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BMW NA 50th Anniversary | 50 Stories for 50 Years Chapter 4: "BMW of North America: Ready for Business"

BMW NA 50th Anniversary | 50 Stories for 50 Years Chapter 4: "BMW of North America: Ready for Business"

Jan 27, 2025

Upon taking his seat on the BMW board of management, Bob Lutz began replacing BMW’s independent distributors with wholly-owned sales subsidiaries, first in France in 1973, then in Belgium and Italy. The move would increase profit—on a per-car basis, the distributors had been earning vastly more than BMW itself—and it would also allow BMW to rationalize product planning and manufacturing.