Focus on customer proximity and speed
- The German operations of the Mobility business sector and the central service units of Robert Bosch GmbH will become separate subsidiaries within the Bosch Group.
- Bosch is streamlining its organizational set-up, which will be underpinned by a consistent corporate structure going forward.
- The goal is to enhance the company’s innovative capacity and competitiveness through consistent customer focus, strengthened entrepreneurship, and short decision-making paths.
- The employment contracts of associates are to be transferred to the new companies.
- The Mobility business sector is realigning its operations in line with strategic and market requirements.
Stuttgart – Bosch is accelerating the company’s evolution and plans to reorganize its corporate structures: the activities of the Mobility business sector and the central service units – Bosch Digital, Global Business Services, and Global Real Estate – in Germany are to be transferred from Robert Bosch GmbH to separate legal entities. As a result, the four legal entities will be managed as wholly owned subsidiaries (limited liability companies under German law – GmbH) within the Bosch Group in future. With this move, Bosch is streamlining its organizational set-up and adopting a consistent corporate structure: the various business fields within the Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology business sectors already operate as separate subsidiaries today. Now, the Mobility business sector and the service units will mirror this same model in Germany.
"With the planned reorganization of our corporate structure, we are creating the conditions that will allow each operating unit to unfold its full potential – with greater entrepreneurial freedom, short decision-making paths, and closer customer focus," - says Dr. Christian Fischer, chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH.
The goal of the reorganization is to further enhance Bosch’s innovative capacity and competitiveness through greater customer focus, strengthened entrepreneurship, increased flexibility, and short decision-making paths in day-to-day operations.
“We are operating in an increasingly challenging environment across our markets. New competitors, particularly from Asia, are intensifying the competitive pressure. For us at Bosch the implication is that we need to bring innovations to market even faster, substantially simplify structures and processes, and accelerate our overall pace to keep up,” says Dr. Christian Fischer, chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH. “The goal is to sustainably increase the profitability of the Bosch Group as a whole so that we can continue to fund technological breakthroughs from our internal resources. With the planned reorganization of our corporate structure, we are creating the conditions that will allow each operating unit to unfold its full potential – with greater entrepreneurial freedom, short decision-making paths, and closer customer focus. It will also mean that our internal service units can contribute more significantly to the performance of our operating units, offering competitive and first-class services. One thing is clear: all legal entities will remain an integral part of the Bosch Group, irrespective of their new legal form.”
As part of the reorganization, approximately 62,500 associates in Germany – most of whom from the Mobility business sector – are set to transfer to the new subsidiaries. Their employment contracts are likewise be transferred to the new subsidiaries. In future, Robert Bosch GmbH will primarily comprise corporate headquarters as well as the central research and advance engineering team. At present, this concerns more than 3,000 associates in total.
New synergy between corporate headquarters and operating units
The planned standardization of structures marks an important milestone in ensuring the consistent evolution of Bosch. To support this initiative, the company is realigning its interplay between corporate headquarters and operating units. The subsidiaries will be given greater operational autonomy so they can respond with greater precision and speed to rapidly changing markets and customer needs. Going forward, corporate headquarters will take on a more strategic holding role, supporting all operating units in unlocking their full potential. The complete evolution is to be implemented in stages by the end of 2027 while the new legal entities are scheduled to begin operations on August 1, 2027.
Mobility business sector as a separate legal entity
As a separate subsidiary within the Bosch Group, the Mobility business sector will integrate its operations even more closely and manage them across its operating units. This will enable Bosch Mobility to offer its customers worldwide even more precisely tailored, integrated solutions from a single source, accelerate decision-making, streamline processes, and invest financial resources more strategically in innovation and growth fields. At the same time, the new structure will create new opportunities for strategic partnerships and the development of new business models. With this new structure, Bosch is consistently driving the evolution of its Mobility business sector and thereby also enhancing its competitiveness: “We’re starting from a position of strength. But to defend our lead in the long term, we must consistently realign with new customer requirements, markets, and the competition,” says Dr. Markus Heyn, deputy chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH and chairman of the Mobility business sector. “Going forward, we’ll be able to take an even more customer-centric approach, act more powerfully as one team, and shape change faster in one of the world’s most demanding industries. Our ambition is to continue setting the pace for the automotive industry. That requires speed, clarity, and business resolve – and we have all three.” As a separate subsidiary, Mobility will remain the largest business sector within the Bosch Group. In 2025, its sales revenue amounted to 55.8 billion euros, or roughly 60 percent of total group sales revenue.
