Who Owns Fiat?

Fiat is owned by Stellantis, the group formed when Fiat Chrysler merged with France’s PSA in 2021. Companies House shows the chain unusually plainly: the UK company records three active controllers at once — FCA Partecipazioni S.p.A., FCA Italy S.p.A. and Stellantis N.V. — each at 75% or more. Stellantis has no controlling shareholder, though the Agnelli and Peugeot families hold anchor stakes with enhanced votes. Ownership verified 6 September 2026.

Who owns Fiat today?

The UK company is FIAT CHRYSLER AUTOMOBILES SERVICES UK LIMITED (04171033), incorporated 1 March 2001 and registered at Pinley House, Coventry.

Its PSC register lists three entities at once, all at 75% or more of shares:

1. FCA Partecipazioni S.p.A. — Italy
2. FCA Italy S.p.A. — Italy
3. Stellantis N.V. — Netherlands

Three controllers each holding 75%+ of the same company looks impossible until you see what it is: the company has registered every layer of its ownership chain, not just the immediate parent. Each holds 75%+ of the one below it, so each indirectly holds 75%+ of the UK company. Most groups register only the top or only the immediate holder; this one registered all three, and the result is a rare case where Companies House shows the whole chain to the ultimate parent on a single page.

Searching for “Fiat” is otherwise useless — the register returns over 120 companies, most of them unrelated consultancies and one-person businesses using the Latin word.

Ultimate parent and corporate structure

Stellantis N.V. is the ultimate parent: a Dutch-registered, multiply-listed company trading in Milan, Paris and New York. Nothing sits above it.

Fiat itself is now a brand within that group rather than a company that owns anything. FCA Italy S.p.A. — the Italian operating company — was called Fiat Group Automobiles and before that simply Fiat, and it is the corporate descendant of the business founded in Turin in 1899.

The UK entity is a services company, not the marque’s owner. It employs staff and supports the group’s British operations; the brand and the cars belong to Italy and the Netherlands.

Major shareholders or controlling persons

No person controls Stellantis. Its shares are widely held, with three anchor shareholders that reporting places at roughly Exor 15% (the Agnelli family’s holding company, chaired by John Elkann), Peugeot Invest around 8% (the Peugeot family) and Bpifrance, the French state investment bank, around 6%.

Those percentages understate their power, because Stellantis uses a Dutch loyalty voting structure: shares held continuously for a qualifying period earn additional votes. The effect is to roughly double the anchors’ voting weight — reported at around 24% for Exor, 12% for Peugeot Invest and 10% for Bpifrance. Together that approaches half the vote without approaching half the equity.

This site has now documented six distinct routes to that outcome: multi-vote share classes (Alphabet, Roblox), a fixed constitutional share (Comcast), non-voting listed stock (Porsche), French double voting rights (Kering), Korean cross-shareholdings (Genesis) — and this, the Dutch loyalty share. Different jurisdictions, same objective: keeping influence with long-term holders while raising money from everyone else.

The balance is also deliberately political. The 2021 merger was negotiated between Italian and French interests, with the French state a shareholder on one side, and the anchor structure preserves that balance rather than letting either side prevail.

Official records and evidence

The UK company number, its 2001 incorporation and all three PSC entries with their 75%+ bands come from Companies House and can be checked directly.

One detail on those entries requires care. All three are dated 6 April 2016, the day the PSC regime began — but Stellantis did not exist until January 2021. The 2016 date is the regime’s commencement date carried forward, not the date Stellantis acquired anything. PSC notification dates are frequently 6 April 2016 for this reason, and they should never be read as transaction dates.

Everything about Stellantis’ own shareholders sits outside the UK register: it is a Dutch company listed in three countries, and its share register, loyalty voting mechanism and anchor holdings are disclosed through those markets and its annual report. Any percentage is a snapshot, and the loyalty structure means the voting figure and the shareholding figure are genuinely different numbers rather than one being an approximation of the other.

Ownership history and changes

Fiat was founded in Turin in 1899 and was controlled by the Agnelli family for its entire independent existence — one of the longest continuous family associations with a major carmaker anywhere.

• 2009–2014 — Fiat takes control of Chrysler after its US bankruptcy, completing full ownership in 2014 and forming Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
• 2015 — Ferrari is spun off and separately listed, leaving the group.
• January 2021 — FCA merges with France’s PSA Group (Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel, Vauxhall) to form Stellantis.

The 2021 merger is the change that matters. Fiat went from being the group to being one brand among fourteen, and the Agnelli family went from control to an anchor stake — still the largest shareholder, no longer the owner.

Related companies and brands

Stellantis owns Fiat, Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati, Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall. Vauxhall is the one most British readers get wrong: it has been in the same group as Fiat since 2021, having come across with PSA, which had bought it from General Motors in 2017.

Ferrari is not in the group. It was separated in 2015 and is its own listed company — though Exor holds a large stake in Ferrari too, so the Agnelli family sits behind both without the companies being connected to each other.

The Agnelli family’s Exor also holds interests well outside cars, including Juventus and The Economist. Those share a shareholder with Fiat, not an owner.