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18 COMBINED MANAGEMENT REPORT
18 General Information on the BMW Group
23 Report on Economic Position
23 General and Sector-specific
Environment
26 Overall Assessment by Management
26 Financial and Non-financial
Performance Indicators
29 Review of Operations
29 Automotive Segment
35 Motorcycles Segment
36 Financial Services Segment
38 Research and Development
40 Purchasing
41 Sales and Marketing
44 Workforce
45 Sustainability
49 Results of Operations, Financial
Position and Net Assets
61 Comments on Financial Statements
of BMW AG
64 Events after the End of the
Reporting Period
65 Report on Outlook, Risks and
Opportunities
82 Internal Control System and Risk
Management System Relevant for the
Consolidated Financial Reporting Process
83
Disclosures Relevant for Takeovers
and Explanatory Comments
87 BMW Stock and Capital Markets
Index (CPLI) – as the only automotive producer for five
consecutive years. The BMW Group was also included in
the British FTSE4Good Index again in 2014.
Clean production
The BMW Group improves resource efficiency by inte-
grating environmental management in all of its produc-
tion
processes. Since 2006 we have reduced both the
volume of resources utilised and the emissions per vehi-
cle produced by an average of 45.0 %.*
The individual figures are as follows:
In 2014 we reduced both the volume of resources utilised
and the emissions per vehicle produced by an average
of 6.7 % compared with the previous year, giving rise to
savings of € 15.8 million.
The BMW Group again reduced the energy consump-
tion per vehicle produced by 4.7 % to 2.25 MWh during
the period under report. One of the measures that con-
tributed towards the efficiency improvement was the
utilisation of intelligent energy data management. It is a
component of the BMW Group’s “Industrie 4.0” pro-
duction concept and based on intelligent electricity me-
ters that continually measure the energy consumption
levels of production facilities and robots and compare
them with a centralised corporate network for the pur-
pose of detecting and avoiding, at the earliest possible
stage, any deviations that lead to excessive electricity
consumption.
The utilisation of highly efficient, ecologically sustain-
able
combined heat and power plants (CHPs) and the
use of electricity generated from renewable sources at
our production sites, as well as improved energy effi-
ciency measures, enabled us to reduce CO2 emissions
per vehicle produced by a further 2.9 % year-on-year to
0.66 tonnes during the period under report.
At 2.18 m³ per vehicle produced, water consumption
was maintained at a stable low level. At 0.47 m³ the same
applies to the volume of process wastewater generated
per vehicle produced.
The volume of non-recyclable production waste was
further reduced to 4.93 kg per vehicle produced in 2014,
an improvement of 14.0 %. A number of measures con-
tributed towards this development, one of which was
an additional improvement in the treatment of washing
Energy consumption – 34.2 %
Water consumption – 33.1 %
Process wastewater – 42.7 %
Non-recyclable waste – 74.0 %
Solvent emissions – 48.6 %
CO2 emissions – 37.1 %
* Including joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd., Shenyang, excluding
contract production.
Importance for stakeholders
Importance for BMW Group
 Wate r
 Biodiversity
 Donations / sponsoring
 Corporate volunteering
 Diversity
 Work-life balance
Product
safety

Environmental and social standards in the supply chain

Anti-corruption / compliance

Future mobility / mobility services 
 Alternative drivetrain
technologies
 CO2 emissions
and climate change
 Human rights / Occupational health and safety
 Energy supply
Corporate Citizenship 
Further education and training 
 Demographic change
Efficient use
of resources
and recycling
management

Materiality matrix