Road to Spin-off

Road to Spin-Off

Our purpose is to make the mobility of tomorrow
safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous.

We have accomplished a lot since announcing our intention to evaluate the spin-off in August 2024 – from conducting detailed analyses to establishing our organizational structure and clarifying our financial setup.

Our ambition is clear: we want to use our path to independence to build better processes, better businesses and an even better company.

Milestones

Retrospect & Outlook. This timeline outlines the most important milestones and decisions of the spin-off process.

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2024

August 5: Continental’s First Announcement of Spin-off Plans (Read the full press release here)
December 9: Continental Executive Board Decides to Spin-off Automotive (Read the full press release here)

2025

March 12: Continental Supervisory Board approves spin-off (Read the full press release here)
March 19: Automotive: Frankfurt am Main becomes headquarters for an independent company (Read the full press release here)
April 25: Planned resolution of the Continental Annual Shareholder Meeting to confirm the spin-off
June 24: Capital Markets Day
June: Legal separation and standalone readiness of Automotive
September: Automotive’s stock market listing

Societas Europaea (SE):

Our future legal form

Our future company will become a Societas Europaea (SE).

The Societas Europaea (SE) is a special type of public company that applies across Europe. It was introduced in 2004 to give companies in European countries the same legal rules. Many big German companies, like Allianz, BASF, SAP, Brenntag, and E.ON, have chosen this legal form.

Our future independent company will become an SE. This means that Continental Automotive has previously been a stock corporation and will in the future be a European Company (SE). As a result, an internationally composed supervisory board with members from various European countries will be possible.

Important for all employees: Even after the transformation into an SE, national co-determination will remain in place—both in day-to-day operations and in key corporate decisions.

Our Headquarters

Future Automotive Headquarters at Frankfurt am Main, Guerickestraße

Our current location in Frankfurt am Main (Guerickestrasse) will host our future headquarters. This allows us to build on our strong presence and long company history in the Rhine-Main-region. Established by mid-2025, the new headquarters are set up to be an efficient, lean entity collaborating with our Business Areas to drive further development as a high-performance organization and effectively guide our global operations.

Transformation FAQ

As an independent company focused on the future of mobility, we can better address the challenges in the market.
Our independence will give us more entrepreneurial and financial freedom to invest in profitable growth and future technologies.
We will become more flexible, faster and even more customer-oriented to remain a leader in the exceptionally challenging automotive market.
We gain more entrepreneurial freedom to achieve our objectives better and faster and to remain successful in the future.

We have everything it takes to be the preferred provider of mobility solutions: outstanding system expertise, complete value creation and a motivated team.
We are a market-leading integrated automotive supplier. We lead through our best-in-class portfolio and our outstanding systems expertise.
We have a comprehensive and balanced value and growth portfolio for safe, exciting, connected and autonomous mobility.
Our financial results show that we are on the right track. We have continuously improved our profits and margins in a difficult market environment.

For the vast majority of our around 92,000 global employees, there are no changes in tasks, activities, workplace, etc. as a result.
Employment conditions will remain unchanged.
In building our future company, we intend to further improve our organizational setup, processes and way of working.

With the decision of the Continental Executive Board in December, we are preparing everything necessary to obtain the approval of the Supervisory Board and the Annual Shareholder’s Meeting for the planned independence and stock market listing.
We are advancing important projects for our development as an independent company such as
- Establishing or expanding the necessary central functions that we need as an independent company and separating our IT systems,
- Fulfilling stock market and regulatory requirements and establishing our own investor communications,
- Creating our own brand for our independent company
- and continuing to consistently implement our strategic measures to focus on the business areas of the future and further improve our cost base.
We are on the right path.
The spin-off is subject to the approval by the Supervisory Board in March and Continental Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on April 25.

Stay tuned.

We’ll keep you posted!

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