The decision to build an automobile plant in the city of Togliatti was made in July 1966, and the first car rolled off the assembly line in 1970. Today OJSC AvtoVAZ is the largest Russian manufacturer of small cars. During the existence of the enterprise, the era of the state's undivided power in industry was replaced by the era of private property. And the owners of the plant have changed more than once over the past decades.
In addition to the parent company, AvtoVAZ includes more than twenty subsidiaries with 100% VAZ capital, as well as about three hundred enterprises with equity participation of the Volzhsky Automobile Plant.
According to the information agency Finmarket, the owners of the industrial giant in the form of an open joint-stock company are a number of legal entities and individuals. The share of the property of each of the main owners in the authorized capital of the company is different, for example:
- CJSC DCC - 19%;
- ZAO CB Citibank - 18.8%;
- State Corporation "Russian Technologies" - 18.8%;
- Ministry of Property Relations of the Samara Region - about 0.3%;
- Komarov Igor Anatolyevich - 0, 14%;
- Karagin Nikolay Mikhailovich - 0, 0003%;
To date, according to information posted on the official website of the holding, I. A. Komarov is the president of AvtoVAZ, and N. M. Karagin - chairman of the trade union committee of the OJSC.
In 2010, the general meeting of shareholders of AvtoVAZ approved amendments to the Charter of the organization, including an increase in the authorized capital. Now it is 11,421,137,155 rubles. The authorized capital is divided into more than 2 billion shares of two categories - preferred (20.2% of the authorized capital) and ordinary (79.8% of the authorized capital). The face value of one share, regardless of its type, is 5 rubles.
In early 2012, the Rosbalt news agency disseminated a message that the Franco-Japanese automotive alliance Renault-Nissan plans to acquire a controlling stake in AvtoVAZ. At that time, the main shareholders of the company, in addition to Renault-Nissan, were the Russian Technologies State Corporation and the Troika Dialog company, which owned a total of 25% of the company's shares. It was later reported that the planned acquisition would be completed by the end of 2012. The Franco-Japanese company intends to invest over $ 750 million in AvtoVAZ and receive a 67% stake. An environmental review of the transaction object is currently underway.
