Bosch in Africa
Bosch has been present in Africa since 1906, now with own locations in eleven African countries: Angola, Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Morocco, Mozambique, South Africa, and Tunisia. All four Bosch business sectors – Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology – have operations on the continent. In 2022, Bosch generated sales of some 640* million euros with some 1812* associates in Africa.
*Provisional figures
Corporate social responsibility in Africa
Bosch actively promotes talented young people in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2008, Bosch has been part of a group of some 32 companies who offer scholarships to African junior executives so that they can spend a year in Germany completing a professional training program. Since then, more than 233 young African from 25 African countries have been selected for the program. The goal of the program is to foster mutual exchange and learning between budding African executives and German companies. www.afrika-kommt.de
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 402,600 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2021). The company generated sales of 78.7 billion euros in 2021. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT provider, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility. Bosch is pursuing a vision of mobility that is sustainable, safe, and exciting. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living with products and solutions that either contain artificial intelligence (AI) or have been developed or manufactured with its help. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.” The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiary and regional companies in some 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. With its more than 400 locations worldwide, the Bosch Group has been carbon neutral since the first quarter of 2020. The basis for the company’s future growth is its innovative strength. At 128 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 76,100 associates in research and development, of which more than 38,000 are software engineers.
