Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd

Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings manufacture luxury sports cars and grand tourers independently. Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford founded it in 1913. Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DB5 model in the 1964 film Goldfinger. People regard their sports cars as a British cultural icon. Aston Martin has held a Royal Warrant as purveyor of motorcars to the Prince of Wales since 1982. It has over 150 car dealerships in over 50 countries on six continents, making them a global automobile brand. Investors trade the company at the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It received the Queen's Award for Enterprise for outstanding contribution to international trade in 2003.

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