Gestamp Automoción, S.A. simply known as Gestamp is a Spanish multinational automotive engineering company. It is one of leading firms in the European automotive industry.
History
Corporación Gestamp, Spain's largest automotive supplier steel company was founded in 1997, as a spin-off of Gonvarri, created in 1958; it is wholly owned by the Riberas family.[citation needed]
When Gestamp Automoción was formed, it exclusively supplied SEAT. It had begun from Gonvauto in 1991.
On 29 April 2011 Gestamp Automoción bought ThyssenKrupp Metal Forming (TKMF), formerly owned by ThyssenKrupp, the large German international company.[2] The ThyssenKrupp division employed around 5,700 people.[3]
Structure
It is based in Madrid in the Alfonso XII street just in front of the Retiro´s park.
It has over 100 production plants in 21 countries -
