Who Owns Vauxhall?

Vauxhall is owned by Stellantis, the Dutch-registered group formed from the merger of Peugeot’s parent and Fiat Chrysler. Companies House records Stellantis N.V. as the controller of Vauxhall Motors Limited from 16 January 2021 — the day the merger completed. The register also shows how completely General Motors once owned it: for nine years the company was not called Vauxhall at all. Ownership verified 6 September 2026.

Who owns the Vauxhall brand?

The company is VAUXHALL MOTORS LIMITED (00135767), incorporated 12 May 1914 and registered in Coventry.

Its person with significant control is Stellantis N.V., registered in the Netherlands as 60372958, holding 75% or more of shares and voting rights with the right to appoint or remove directors, notified 16 January 2021.

Vauxhall is therefore Dutch-registered, Franco-Italian-American in origin, and British only in its badge and its factories — a fair description of most of what is left of the UK motor industry.

Parent company and ultimate owner

The register records three owners in six years, and each entry is a real change of control rather than a reshuffle:

1. VHC Sub-Holdings (UK) (02494621) — from 6 April 2016, ceased 9 March 2019. The General Motors era.
2. Peugeot S.A. (France, 552 100 554) — 9 March 2019 to 16 January 2021.
3. Stellantis N.V. (Netherlands, 60372958) — from 16 January 2021.

The dates are the transactions themselves. PSA completed its purchase of GM’s European business in 2017 and the UK register caught up in March 2019; the Stellantis entry is the day the PSA–Fiat Chrysler merger completed and the new group came into existence.

Above Stellantis N.V. there is nothing. It is listed in Milan, Paris and New York, and its own largest shareholders — the Agnelli family holding company Exor, the Peugeot family vehicle, and the French state’s investment arm — hold significant but minority stakes. No one controls it outright.

Brand owner vs operating company

Vauxhall Motors Limited holds the British business. The brand itself is one of fourteen marques inside Stellantis, and Vauxhall’s cars are the same vehicles sold as Opel across the rest of Europe, badged differently for a market where the Vauxhall name still carries weight.

That is why the previous names matter. The company was:

• VAUXHALL MOTORS LIMITED — 1914 to 16 April 2008
• GENERAL MOTORS UK LIMITED — 16 April 2008 to 18 September 2017
• VAUXHALL MOTORS LIMITED — from 18 September 2017

For nine years the British company that built Vauxhalls was legally called General Motors UK. It took its own name back in September 2017, weeks after PSA’s purchase of Opel and Vauxhall completed. Few register entries show a change of owner as plainly as a company reclaiming its name.

When the ownership changed

Vauxhall was founded in London in 1857 as an engineering works and began building cars in 1903. General Motors bought it in 1925 and held it for ninety-two years — one of the longest single ownerships of any brand on this site.

In 2017 GM sold Opel and Vauxhall to PSA Group, the owner of Peugeot and Citroën, at a reported €2.2bn, exiting Europe after decades of losses. Under four years later PSA merged with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to form Stellantis, completing on 16 January 2021 and making Vauxhall part of one of the largest carmakers in the world.

Ownership and production are separate questions. Stellantis has continued to build vans at Luton and cars and vans at Ellesmere Port, with both plants repeatedly under review — decisions taken in Amsterdam and Paris about factories in Bedfordshire and Cheshire.

Related brands in the same group

Stellantis owns Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel, Vauxhall, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati, Abarth, Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge and Ram.

Vauxhall and Opel are effectively the same operation under two badges. Vauxhall has no connection to Volkswagen, despite the persistent confusion between the names, and none to General Motors since 2017 — GM has had no European car business for nearly a decade.

Sources and verification

The company number, incorporation date, all three PSC entries with their dates, and the General Motors UK naming period are from the Companies House register and can be checked directly.

The €2.2bn sale price and the composition of Stellantis’s own shareholder base are reported figures from company announcements and continental market filings — Stellantis is Dutch-registered and listed in three countries, so it does not file ownership information at Companies House. Companies House does not verify most filed information.