Continental
A Short Overview
Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist that develops and produces sustainable, safe and convenient solutions for automotive manufacturers as well as industrial and end customers worldwide. Founded in 1871, the company generated sales of €19.7 billion in 2025 and currently employs around 78,000 people in 54 countries and markets.
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Our Strategy
Emerge as a winner of the transformation
We are confident that the strategic positioning of the Automotive, Tires and ContiTech group sectors will lead to long-term success. By successfully implementing short-term strategic measures to improve performance, and with a clear focus on medium and long-term targets, all group sectors have a balanced and resilient portfolio. Our strategy is based on three cornerstones:
- Strengthen operational performance
- Differentiate our portfolio
- Turn change into opportunity
Our Sustainability Ambition
Our framework to turn change into opportunity
Sustainability is a driver of innovation for Continental during the current transformation of mobility and industry. It is firmly anchored in the corporate strategy and forms a key component in the corporate vision 'CREATING VALUE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW'.
In its Group’s sustainability ambition, Continental describes how the company wants to shape the transformation in relevant topics areas with respect to sustainability in order to reduce negative impacts, strengthen positive effects, seize transformation opportunities, and mitigate transformation risks.
Along with the relevant guidelines, this ambition constitutes the framework for existing management approaches, strategies, programs, processes and targets, as well as their further development.
Our 2025 Sustainability Report covers Continental management approaches on environmental, social, and governance sustainability matters. The sustainability report is part of the annual report. Find it starting on page 93.
Our HR Development
Accompanying digital transformation
“Enable Transformation” supports digital transformation at Continental so that we can make the most of the opportunities of digitalization throughout the corporation. We regard four management areas as crucial to our continued success with digitalized industry and mobility:
- Diversity management
- Flexible working conditions
- An inspiring leadership culture
- Lifelong learning and intensive exchange of knowledge
Please find here detailed information about our holistic HR policy, employee key figures and structure.
Our Key Figures
Preliminary results fiscal year 2025
- Consolidated sales of €19.7 billion
- Adjusted EBIT of €2.0 billion
- Adjusted EBIT margin of 10.3 percent
* Before amortization of intangible assets from purchase price allocation (PPA), changes in the scope of consolidation, and special effects.
** Adjusted EBIT as a percentage of adjusted sales.
Annual reports, quarterly statements and financial key figures are available by Investor Relations.
Our Products
Sustainable, safe and convenient solutions
Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist that develops and produces sustainable, safe and convenient solutions for automotive manufacturers as well as industrial and end customers worldwide.
Tires
Tire solutions from the Tires group sector make mobility safer, smarter, and more sustainable. Its premium portfolio encompasses car, truck, bus, two-wheel, and specialty tires as well as smart solutions and services for fleets and tire retailers. Continental has been delivering top performance for more than 150 years and is one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers. In fiscal 2025, the Tires group sector generated sales of 13.8 billion euros. Continental's tire division employs more than 56,000 people worldwide and has 19 production and 16 development sites.
Please find here the Continental tires products and services.
ContiTech
ContiTech is one of the world’s leading industry specialists. The Continental group sector offers its customers connected, safe and convenient industry and service solutions using a range of materials for off-highway applications, on rails and roads, in the air, under and above the ground, in industrial environments, for the food sector and the furniture industry. With about 20,000 employees (Status as of March 2026) at more than 60 sites globally, and sales of some 6.0 billion euros (2025), the global industrial partner is active with core branches in Asia, Europe and North and South America.
Find out more about our products and solutions for industries.
Our Locations
Continental - present worldwide
| Argentina Austria Australia Belgium Botswana Brazil Canada Chile China Columbia Czech Republic Denmark | Ecuador Finland France Germany* Greece Hungary India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan | Kazakhstan Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Morocco Netherlands Norway Peru Philippines Poland Portugal | Republic of South Africa Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden | Switzerland Taiwan (China) Thailand Türkiye United Arab Emirates United Kingdom USA |
*Headquarters in Hanover (As at: Dec. 31, 2024)
Our History
150 years of Continental
On October 8, 2021, our hearts were beating faster! That’s because on October 8, we are celebrating a milestone: Continental’s 150-year anniversary. We have so much to look back on - right from the start we made our mark on mobility, explaining why millions of people place their trust in us every day.
Starting with only around 200 employees, over time we have grown into a company with lasting success, and with almost 200,000 colleagues worldwide. Transformation and change have always been part of our history, which is why we are confident about the new changes in mobility.
Find out more about our history.