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The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial ...
Volvo cars have long been marketed as safe and the company has stressed their historic reputation for solidity and reliability in marketing campaigns. Volvo uses high-tech safety systems as standard equipment in new vehicles. [citation needed] Prior to strong government safety regulation Volvo had been at the forefront of safety engineering. [56]
Volvo LV63 Truck 1929 Volvo L495 Titan Truck 1965 Volvo F88-49T Truck 1970. When Volvo manufactured its first automobiles in 1927, the first truck was already on the drawing table. In early 1928, the LV series 1 was presented to the public. Though by modern standards it was merely a truck, it was an immediate success and 500 units were sold ...
Second Volvo Car plant outside Sweden: Assembly (1965–1972) Manufacturing (1972–present) XC40, V60, C40, EX30 (2025-) [5] Worldwide Debut model: Volvo Amazon: Previously named Volvo Cars Europe Industry (1965–2007) Halifax Plant Volvo Halifax Assembly (VHA) 3: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: 1967–1987 [2] Debut model: Volvo 144: Assembly ...
Initially, Ford achieved only a tepid market with its D3 vehicles, though after the PAG group divested itself of Volvo, the Fifth Generation Explorer enjoyed broad market success. Geely was reported to have approached Ford in mid-2008 about a possible takeover of Volvo Cars. On 28 October 2009, Ford named Geely the preferred buyer of Volvo Cars.
Phillips 66 and their petrol station group, JET, have an office on the Technology Park. Other businesses with head offices here include lingerie company Bravissimo. IBM, Wolseley and Volvo Group UK have bases on the Wedgnock Industrial Estate in the north of the town, near to the A46 trunk road.
Volvo Buses (Volvo Bus Corporation; formal name: Volvo Bussar AB), stylized as VOLVO, is a subsidiary and a business area of the Swedish vehicle maker Volvo, which became an independent division in 1968. It is based in Gothenburg.
Fortum headquarters building, Espoo, Finland Volvo headquarters building, Gothenburg, Sweden Nintendo headquarters building, Kyoto, Japan . A headquarters is the entity at the top of a corporation that takes full responsibility for the overall success of the corporation, and ensures corporate governance. [1]