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For the article about the bicycle manufacturer, see Peugeot (bicycles).

Peugeot

Type	Public company
Industry	Automotive
Founded	1810 as a coffee mill company 1830 as a bicycle manufacturer 1882 as a car manufacturer 1898 as a motorcycle company 1926 as a separate company
Headquarters	Legal and Top level Administrative: Ave de la Grande Armée, Paris[1] Operational: Sochaux, France
Key people	Philippe Varin (CEO), Jean-Pierre Ploue (Head Design)
Products	Automobiles
Production output	1,739,000[2] (2009)
Employees	198,210 (2010) PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN[3]
Parent	PSA Peugeot Citroën (Peugeot S.A.)[4]
Website	Peugeot.com

Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe. ^[5]

The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark. The company produced its first automobile in 1891.^{[citation needed]} Due to family discord, Armand Peugeot in 1896 founded the Société des Automobiles Peugeot. The Peugeot company and family is originally from Sochaux, France. Peugeot retains a large manufacturing plant and Peugeot Museum there. It also sponsors the Sochaux football club, founded in 1928 by a member of the Peugeot family.

The name is pronounced [pøˈʒo] in French, and is frequently pronounced /ˈpɝːʒoʊ/ (pur-zhoh) in British English.

The Peugeot family of Valentigney, Montbéliard, Franche-Comté, France, began in the manufacturing business in the 18th century. In 1842, they added production of coffee, pepper, and salt grinders.^[6]The company's entry into the vehicle market was by means of crinoline dresses, which used steel rods, leading to umbrella frames, saw blades, wire wheels, and ultimately bicycles.^[7] Armand Peugeot introduced his "Le Grand Bi" penny-farthing in 1882, along with a range of other bicycles. Peugeot bicycles continued to be built until very recently, although the car company and bike company parted ways in 1926.

Armand Peugeot became interested in the automobile early on and, after meeting with Gottlieb Daimler and others, was convinced of its viability. The first Peugeot automobile, a three-wheeled steam-powered car designed by Léon Serpollet, was produced in 1889; only four examples were made.^[8] Steam power was heavy and bulky and required lengthy warmup times. In 1890, after meeting Gottlieb Daimler and Émile Levassor, steam was abandoned in favour of a four-wheeled car with a petrol-fuelled internal combustion engine built by Panhard under Daimler licence. The car was more sophisticated than many of its contemporaries, with a three-point suspension and a sliding-gear transmission.^[9]

Peugeot Type 19 (1899)

Peugeot 202

Peugeot 601 C Eclipse 1934 Pourtout