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On 28 October 2009, Ford named Geely the preferred buyer of Volvo Cars. [13] [14] On 23 December 2009, Ford confirmed that all substantive commercial terms for the sale to Geely had been settled. Geely signed a deal with Ford to acquire Volvo Cars for $1.8 billion on 28 March 2010 and closed the deal on 2 August 2010. [6]
Geely's first car, the Geely Haoqing, rolled off the assembly line in Linhai, Zhejiang on 8 August 1998. However, Geely did not obtain its national production license until 9 November 2001, which delayed mass production until 2002. [29] By 2002, the brand was ranked among the top ten in the Chinese automobile market. [29]
Li founded Geely in November 1986; it is now the second-largest private automobile manufacturer in China. [4] On 28 March 2010, Geely signed a deal worth US$1.8 billion to buy Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars from American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor Company. [5] It was the largest foreign purchase by a Chinese car manufacturer.
In February, Geely's Hong Kong-listed unit Geely Automobile and Volvo Cars scrapped plans to merge. ... Hangzhou-based Geely, which also owns a 9.7% stake in Daimler, said earlier this year it was ...
Volvo Cars will merge its engine development and manufacturing assets with those of parent Geely, creating a division to supply in-house brands Lotus, LEVC, Lynk and Proton, and also potential ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Geely-owned Volvo Cars said on Monday its initial public offering would be priced within a range of 53 to 68 Swedish crowns per share, valuing the automaker at up to $23 ...
The following is a list of vehicles under the Geely Auto Group business unit within the holding company Zhejiang Geely Holding. The list does not include vehicles from other brands owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding such as Volvo Cars , Polestar , Smart , Lotus , Livan Automotive , Maple , London EV Companyand Farizon .
Geely was known for imbuing a sense of humor in the names of some of its vehicles. One of the early Geely brand sedan is called the "King Kong" and its early model was named Uliou (Chinese: 优利欧, You Li Ou), [10] a play on words that literally means "better than the Tianjin Xiali (Chinese: 夏利, Xia Li) or the Buick Sail (Chinese: 赛欧 ...