Who owns IM?
IM is owned by SAIC Motor (China, SSE: 600104).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: SAIC Motor Corporation Limited Annual Report 2025, 21 April 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- SAIC Motor Corporation Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Shanghai
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Category
- Automotive › Cars › Electric vehicles
- Parent ticker
- SSE: 600104
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About IM
IM is a new-energy vehicle brand of SAIC Motor, made and sold by the subsidiary IM Motors Co., Ltd. The company's 2025 annual report names the IM LS6 and LS9 among its new energy launches and says the brand introduced the IM5 and IM6 in markets including Thailand, the UK and Australia. SAIC's brand strategy in the report describes pushing its premium brands into the top tier of intelligent electric vehicles.
Ownership timeline of IM
- Current owner SAIC Motor [1] reported
Where IM sits in SAIC Motor
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- IM
- Roewe
- SAIC SHANGJIE
- Wuling (50.1%)
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Other brands owned by SAIC Motor
SAIC Motor controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in automotive.
Also in automotive
Other brands in electric vehicles, and who owns them
The 23 brands in electric vehicles on Brandtree belong to 15 owners. The largest is NIO, with 3.
About the owner: SAIC Motor
SAIC Motor is a publicly listed company headquartered in Shanghai, China, founded in 1997. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as SSE: 600104.
SAIC Motor Corporation Limited is a Shanghai-based automaker listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (A shares, code 600104). Its 2025 annual report says it was initiated by Shanghai Automotive Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. in August 1997, and that it sold 4.507 million vehicles in 2025, of which 2.928 million were self-owned brands. The company also has joint ventures with Volkswagen and General Motors, whose brands are owned by those partners and are not listed here. It owns the MG brand too, but the annual report gives no origin for MG, so MG is left out of this record.
🇨🇳 IM and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 319 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; IM is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of IM?
The parent company of IM is SAIC Motor, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is IM Chinese?
Yes. IM originated in China and its owner, SAIC Motor, is also headquartered in China.
Is IM still owned by SAIC Motor?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, IM is still owned by SAIC Motor. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] SAIC Motor Corporation Limited Annual Report 2025 — SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, Annual report, published 21 April 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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