Volvo: Swedish manufacturing company
Volvo is a Swedish car and truck maker founded in 1927.
It has the following two divisions:
- 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.
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| 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 |
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| Products | Trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial engines, customer financing, insurance and related services, product related services |
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Number of employees | 102,155 (2022) |
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| Website | www |
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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. Volvo cars has is making all of it's cars zero emission by the year 2030.
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