Who owns Ape?
Ape is owned by Piaggio (Italy, BIT: PIA).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Piaggio Group Annual Report 2025, Piaggio & C. S.p.A, 27 February 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Piaggio & C. S.p.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇮🇹 Italy, Pontedera
- Origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy, Pontedera
- Founded
- 1947
- Category
- Automotive › Motorcycles
- Parent ticker
- BIT: PIA
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Ape
Piaggio puts the Ape at 1947 and describes it as a compact light transport vehicle; nearly eighty years on it is still the group's three-wheeler line. Engines for it are built at Pontedera alongside scooter and motorcycle engines. Three-wheeler manufacturing for the Indian market, where Piaggio Vehicles Private Limited competes in commercial three-wheelers, runs through the group's site at Baramati in Maharashtra, which also assembles Vespa and Aprilia two-wheelers and engines.
Ownership timeline of Ape
Where Ape sits in Piaggio
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Piaggio
Piaggio controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in automotive.
Also in automotive
- Aprilia
- Moto Guzzi (1921)
- Piaggio (1884)
- Porter
- Vespa (1946)
Other brands in motorcycles, and who owns them
The 52 brands in motorcycles on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is Bajaj Auto, with 13; Piaggio has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Avenger | Bajaj Auto | 🇮🇳 India |
| Destini | Hero MotoCorp | 🇮🇳 India |
| Norton Motorcycles | TVS Motor | 🇮🇳 India |
| Can-Am Off-Road | BRP | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| BSA | Mahindra & Mahindra | 🇮🇳 India |
| BMW Motorrad | BMW Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| MODENAS | DRB-HICOM | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| GWM SOUO | Great Wall Motor | 🇨🇳 China |
About the owner: Piaggio
Piaggio is a publicly listed company headquartered in Pontedera, Italy, founded in 1884. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as BIT: PIA.
Piaggio dates itself to the company Rinaldo Piaggio founded at Sestri Levante in 1884, which outfitted ships and then built aircraft long before it built scooters. Its 2025 annual report describes three core segments: two-wheelers from 50cc to 1,100cc, light commercial three- and four-wheelers, and Piaggio Fast Forward, a robotics research company in Boston. It manufactures at Pontedera, Noale, Scorzè and Mandello del Lario in Italy and at Baramati in India, Vinh Phuc in Vietnam and Jakarta in Indonesia, and holds 45 per cent of a Chinese joint venture with Zongshen at Foshan that it accounts for by the equity method.
🇮🇹 Ape and other Italian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 209 brands that began in Italy. 76 of them (36%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Ape is not one of them.
- Alfa Romeo — Stellantis 🇳🇱
- Ducati — Volkswagen Group 🇩🇪
- Ferrari — Ferrari 🇮🇹
- ATV Azienda Trasporti Verona — FNM 🇮🇹
- Academia Barilla — Barilla 🇮🇹
- Acquaviva — Vandemoortele 🇧🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Ape?
The parent company of Ape is Piaggio, a publicly listed company headquartered in Italy.
Is Ape Italian?
Yes. Ape originated in Italy in 1947 and its owner, Piaggio, is also headquartered in Italy.
Is Ape still owned by Piaggio?
Yes. As of 25 September 2026, Ape is still owned by Piaggio. 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] Piaggio Group Annual Report 2025 — Piaggio & C. S.p.A., Annual report, published 27 February 2026; retrieved 25 September 2026.
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