FIAT GROUP IN THE UK
Fiat has been represented in Britain since the turn of the 20th
century. In 1903, just four years after the Company's founding,
Fiat Motors Ltd was established and by 1908 some 200 Fiat cars had
been sold to London's taxi drivers. The first London bus with
pneumatic tyres to be licensed under the new Scotland Yard
regulations was a Fiat, and in the 1920s Harrods was using some 40
Fiat delivery vans.
Today the Fiat Group is represented in the UK by the majority of
the Group's main activities, with a total turnover of £1.77bn and
exports to the value of £564m in 2009.
Included in these figures are automobiles, the heart of the
Group's activities, through Fiat Group Automobiles UK and its seven
brands. The Group's prestige automotive brands are represented
through Ferrari North Europe Ltd and Maserati GB Ltd.
The Group has an equally important presence in the agricultural
and tractors sector with CNH, as well as the commercial vehicle
sector (Iveco), buses (Irisbus), industrial production equipment
(COMAU Estil), and automotive motorsport component manufacturer
Magneti Marelli Racing.
Fiat UK Limited, based in Central London, manages corporate
communications, institutional and corporate relations, legal
support and co-ordinates Group activities in Britain on behalf of
Fiat SpA, the Group holding company of which Fiat UK is a
subsidiary.
In addition, Fiat UK Services Division, based in Basildon, Essex,
provides accounting, reporting, audit, payroll and taxation
services to Group companies in Britain. In total, the Fiat Group in
the UK directly employs 1,387 people in a number of factories,
training centres and head offices, which have contributed, for more
than 100 years, to making the Fiat Group a significant force in the
UK.
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