McLaren Group

Company profile

McLaren Group company profile

McLaren Group is an automotive, motorsport, and technology company that manufactures sports cars. With a reputation for innovation and technological excellence, it is now a large, independent private company and a major exporter, with over 90 percent of supercars exported. Originally founded in 1963 by racer, engineer, and entrepreneur Bruce McLaren, the group is now formed of three core businesses; Applied, which works at the intersection of technology and data to deliver quantifiable performance advantage to organizations; Automotive, which hand-builds lightweight supercars; and Racing which competes in the Formula 1 World Championship and also IndyCar in the US. In 2019, total Group year-on-year revenues rose 18 percent rise in full-year turnover to £1,486.1m. Globally headquartered in Woking, Surrey, England at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre, McLaren is a major investor in UK-based research and development. Its new second facility, the £50m McLaren Composites Technology Centre in Yorkshire, northern England, innovates and produces lightweight composite structures to help achieve greater vehicle performance and efficiency as part of ground-breaking future mobility solutions. ​​​​​​​ McLaren is harnessing and deploying its unique blend of expertise in design, rapid-prototyping, high-quality manufacturing, and electronics to support efforts to produce more ventilators for the UK’s National Health Service during the pandemic and, ultimately, to help save lives.