Bill Ford is doubling down on Ford shares, and quietly amassing more control of his great-grandfather’s company in the process PUBLISHED FRI, JAN 14 20229:04 AM ESTUPDATED SAT, JAN 15 202212:58 AM EST Michael Wayland
KEY POINTS Ford Motor Chair Bill Ford has been slowly amassing more control of the automaker his great-grandfather founded in 1903. He is the company’s biggest individual shareholder with 2.3 million shares of the Ford’s common stock. More importantly, he directly owns 16.1 million, or 23%, of the Class B shares. That’s quadruple the roughly 4 million, or 5.7%, he owned in 2012, according to FactSet.
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