[5] The North American headquarters for BMW is located at 300 Chestnut Ridge Road, Woodcliff Lake, Bergen County, New Jersey.

In addition to the South Carolina manufacturing facility, BMW's North American companies include sales, marketing, design, and financial services operations in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Latin America.

In 1992, BMW announced that it would build a 1,150-acre (470 ha) manufacturing facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States to strengthen its international production system.

This expansion will allow production of 240,000 vehicles a year and will make the plant the largest car factory in the United States by number of employees.

[15] The $2.2 billion plant, which employs 23,000 (BMW and contract), is part of the company's global five-plant production network.

In 2014, the automaker announced an additional $1 billion investment in the facility that will make Spartanburg, South Carolina, BMW's largest U.S. factory, with an annual capacity of 480,000 units[16] when including the X7.