Brembo the beginning: Brembo was founded in 1961 as a small mechanics garage located a few kilometres from Bergamo, run by the current President's father Emilio Bombassei. Experience gained in mechanics and metallurgy was put to good use when the founder started working for customers such as Alfa Romeo. 1964 marked a milestone in the company's history: Brembo began manufacturing the first Italian brake discs for the aftermarket. Until then, discs had been imported from Great Britain. The production of brake discs was then followed by other braking system components. The skill, specialization and quality of the products and services of this Curno-based company began to gain recognition on an international level, gaining leadership in Europe's brake disc aftermarket. In 1965, Brembo had 28 employees.

At the end of 1992, the strategic ambitions of this Bergamo company took a different path from Kelsey-Hayes, that in March 1993, after a negotiations period,  transferred its share. Brembo's management won its challenge to reacquire the holding originally transferred to Kelsey-Hayes. Brembo began focusing on its future and indirectly on competition in the Italian industry, where the company was already a strong competitor, by exploiting its management resources and technological capacity.  The company continued to grow over the following years and in 1995 it was quoted in the Milan Stock Exchange: a success gained through intense teamwork, as is always the case in Brembo. In 1995, Brembo had a total of 1,115 employees, with a turnover of 331 billion lire.

Brembo Today: In 2007, Brembo acquired the American Hayes Lemmerz Automotive Brake Component division, with two production facilities in Homer (Michigan) and in Mexico, that manufacture brake rotors and drums for the North American passenger car and light truck markets. At the beginnig of 2008 the Group started to operate also in the reasearch, development and production of passive safety components thanks to the acquisition of Sabelt trade mark, leader in production of seat belts for both racing cars and child safety.

Through Brembo China, a joint venture with the public-private merchant bank SIMEST, in February 2008  Brembo acquired a further 42,25% of NYABS from Nanjing Automobile Group Corporation . The company is a JV between Brembo and NAC. As a consequence, Nanjing Yuejin Automotive Brake system Co. Ltd. will become the main industrial pole of Brembo in China, intended to produce braking systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles.

Brembo currently operates in 3 continents with production plants in 12 countries; our commercial sites are based also in Sweden, France, and Germany, while we sell our products in 70 Countries in the world. At present, Brembo employees about 6000 people, 10% of which are engineers and product specialists working in research and development..