Ford is independent. It owns itself.
Ford Motor Company dates itself to a Michigan company of the same name incorporated in 1903 to produce and sell automobiles designed and engineered by Henry Ford; the present Delaware company was incorporated in 1919 and acquired that business.
Where it sits
Nowhere. There is no level above this one.
Ford
123 years, one owner since 1980
The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.
- 1903 Ford Motor Company dates itself to a Michigan company of the same name incorporated in 1903 to produce and sell automobiles designed and engineered by Henry Ford; the present Delaware company was incorporated in 1919 and acquired that business.
Ford
2 marques
Ford and Lincoln are badges on one company rather than businesses it bought; what Ford actually lists as subsidiaries is finance and factories. The founding family holds a separate class of share that fixes its slice of the vote.