Aston Martin Changed Owners

Minority shareholder in the British automaker has investment firm Investindustrial.

Controlling stake in Aston Martin recently owned Kuwaiti company Investment Dar Co, but the latter has decided to get rid of some of the shares. As a result, 37.5% of loss-making British brand have been sold to the Italian Investindustrial for € 186 million Although the potential buyers were Indian company Mahindra & Mahindra and Japan's Toyota.

Investindustrial firm previously owned motorcycle manufacturer Ducati (more recently, is owned by Volkswagen). Collaborates with mersedesovskogo brand AMG. As for the company's Aston Martin, the board of directors of which four Italians relies 4 of 9 seats, the planned investment of about € 620 million over five years, mainly in the development of new models.

Of the shares owned by Aston Martin CEO Ulrich Bez and chairman David Richards.