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Pininfarina
Italian car design firm and coachbuilder. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Company type | Subsidiary (S.p.A.) |
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BIT: PINF | |
Industry | Automotive and Design |
Founded | Turin, Italy (May 23, 1930 (1930-05-23)) |
Founder | Battista Farina |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | |
Services | Automotive design |
€20.5 million (2016)[1] | |
Number of employees | 578 (2016)[1] |
Parent | Mahindra Group |
Subsidiaries | Automobili Pininfarina |
Website | www |
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Pininfarina S.p.A. (short for Carrozzeria Pininfarina) is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder, with headquarters in Cambiano, Turin, Italy. It was founded by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930. On 14 December 2015, Mahindra Group acquired Pininfarina S.p.A. for about €168 million.[2]
Pininfarina is employed by a wide variety of automobile manufacturers to design vehicles. These firms have included long-established customers such as Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Peugeot, Fiat, GM, Lancia, and Maserati, to emerging companies in the Asian market with Chinese manufactures like AviChina, Chery, Changfeng, Brilliance, JAC and VinFast in Vietnam and Korean manufacturers Daewoo and Hyundai.