Volvo
Appearance
Company type | Aktiebolag |
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OMX: VOLV B | |
ISIN | SE0000115446 |
Industry | Automotive |
Founded | 1927 |
Founders | Assar Gabrielsson and Gustav Larson |
Headquarters | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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Products | Trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial engines, customer financing, insurance and related services, product related services |
Brands |
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Revenue | 473.479 billion kr (2022) |
45.712 billion kr (2022) | |
32.969 billion kr (2022) | |
Total assets | 629.064 billion kr (2022) |
Total equity | 166.236 billion kr (2022) |
Owners |
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Number of employees | 102,155 (2022) |
Subsidiaries |
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Website | www |
Footnotes / references [1][note 1] |
Volvo is a Swedish car and truck maker founded in 1927. It has two parts:
- Volvo Cars (Swedish: Volvo personvagnar), which produces standard size cars, and was owned by the Ford Motor Company 1999 to 2010.
- Volvo Group, which produces trucks, boat engines, buses and more.
Volvo is now the leading producer in what most people would call safe family cars.
One of the Volvo's cars, the Volvo S60 is used by police departments in some parts of Europe and the United Kingdom.
In March 2010, Ford signed a deal to sell Volvo Cars to the Chinese automaker Geely for $1.8 billion.[2] Volvo cars has is making all of it's cars zero emission by the year 2030.[3]
Models
[change | change source]- Volvo C30
- Volvo S60
- Volvo S80
- Volvo V70
- Volvo S60
- Volvo S40
- Volvo V50
- Volvo V40
- Volvo FH
- Volvo XC40
- Volvo XC90
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ It includes financial information attributable to both AB Volvo proper and its consolidated and non-consolidated affiliates (such as subsidiaries and joint ventures), collectively known as the Volvo Group.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Annual and Sustainability Report 2022" (PDF). AB Volvo. pp. 4, 43, 46–47, 67. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ Nordstrom, Louise. "Geely to buy Volvo from Ford for $1.8 billion". Retrieved 29 March 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Robert Lea (ed.). "Volvo float to power move to electric cars". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 9 April 2022.