Hyundai is independent. It owns itself.
Hyundai Motor Company gives 29 December 1967 as its date of establishment; that is the origin of the carmaker itself, and not of the wider Hyundai chaebol, which had been building other businesses for two decades by then.
Where it sits
Nowhere. There is no level above this one.
Hyundai
Also part-owned by
A stake that is not control, so it does not decide who owns it.
Hyundai Mobis
22.36%
59 years, one owner
The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.
- 1967 Hyundai Motor Company gives 29 December 1967 as its date of establishment; that is the origin of the carmaker itself, and not of the wider Hyundai chaebol, which had been building other businesses for two decades by then.
Hyundai
2 marques
Hyundai and Genesis are badges on one Korean company, not businesses it bought. No shareholder controls it: the group's parts maker is its largest holder, and the founding family's grip runs through a ring of cross-holdings rather than a holding company.