Volvo

Volvo (Volvo), the famous Swedish car brand, has been translated as rich. The brand was founded in 1927 in Gothenburg, Sweden, by Gustav Larsson and Arthur Gebrsen. The Volvo Group is a leading global manufacturer of commercial transport and construction equipment for trucks, buses, construction equipment, Marine and industrial applications drive systems and aero engine components. As well as complete solutions for financial and after-sales services. In 1999, Volvo Group sold its Volvo Cars business to Ford Motor Company of the United States. In 2010, Chinese auto maker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group bought the Volvo car business from Ford, giving it ownership of the Volvo car brand.

On April 8, 2014, Volvo announced that it was suspending an agreement with a Russian company to jointly develop infantry armored fighting vehicles due to UkraineThe uncertainty caused by the crisis. ^[1]

The Volvo Group (ABVolvo), a Swedish company that today produces trucks, buses, construction equipment, yachts and industrial engines, was founded in Gothenburg in 1927. The word Volvo, originally Latin, means "rolling forward".

Volvo to produce sedanStarted. The founder was Swedish Gustav Larsson(Gustaf Larson) and Arthur GuebbelsonAssar Gabrilsson originally served SwedenFamous Ball bearing (Ball bearing) manufacturing Factory SKF, where Larson is an engineer and Gableson is an international marketing manager with an economics background. Because of their vision and passion for the automobile, the two worked together to convince the SKF board of directors in September 1925 to borrow the car corporationThe factory in Torslanda was used to assemble the prototype car, and on August 10, 1926, authorization was granted to begin mass production. One Volvo product, the Volvo OV4 convertible, was launched on April 14, 1927.

Due to its growing sales, Volvo was separated from SKF in 1935 and became Volvo Corporation. Until 1998, Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo, which in addition to passenger cars, is also a world-renowned manufacturer of commercial vehicles, its products also include aerospace and aviation equipment and various machinery.

Ford bought Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion in 1999. It reduced its capital by $2.4 billion in 2008. Volvo S60 HD Atlas (13 photos)

On March 20, 2006, Volvo Cars announced the production of the Volvo S40 sedan at the Changan Ford plant in Chongqing. [2]

On December 24, 2009, Ford Motor and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the parent company of Zhejiang automaker Geely Automobile, reached a preliminary agreement on the sale of Volvo Cars.

On March 28, 2010, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., LTD. (referred to as Geely Group) signed a final equity acquisition agreement with Ford Motor in Gothenburg, Sweden, obtaining 100% of the equity of Volvo Cars and related assets including intellectual property rights, involving an amount of 1.8 billion US dollars, which was completed in the third quarter of 2010. Its headquarters will be located in Shanghai, and two new factories will be built in Chengdu (VCCD) and Daqing (VCDQ). After the completion of the plant, the Changan Ford plant in Chongqing will no longer be a contract manufacturer for Volvo s40.

Today, Volvo is split into Volvo car corporation, once part of the family car business of Volvo group, and Volvo Group, which is now controlled by Geely and operated by Volvo Group.

Volvo S60 Polestar HD photo book (8 photos)

 

 

On July 4, 2013, Volvo Car Group announced its sales figures in China for June and the first half of 2013. The company maintained rapid growth in the Chinese market, growing more than 30% in the first half of the year and 74% in June.

In June 2013, Volvo Cars sold 5,798 vehicles in the Chinese market, an all-time high for the same period, up 74.0% from 3,333 vehicles in June 2012. The Volvo S60 remains the best-selling model, with 2,288 units sold in a single month.

In the first half of 2013, Volvo's cumulative sales in China reached 28,703 vehicles, compared with 21,378 vehicles in the same period in 2012 and a 34.3% jump in 2013 from a year earlier. China remains Volvo's second-largest single market in terms of sales, second only to the United States in the first half of the year.

The Volvo Group includes Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks, Mack Trucks, UD Trucks, Volvo Buses, Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta, Volvo Aerospace and Volvo Financial Services.

Volvo Group plants: Volvo Trucks (North American heavy trucks), Volvo Construction Equipment (Shanghai plant, Ingersoll Rand, Shandong Lingong, etc.), Volvo Buses (Shenwo, Sivo, etc.), Volvo Aerospace (aviation services), Volvo Penta (mainly the production of yacht engine power units), Volvo Financial Services, Mike Trucks, UD Trucks (production in Japan) and Renault Trucks (Dongfeng cooperation). The Volvo Group does not include Volvo Cars

Volvo S80 HD photo book (11 photos)

 

 

The Volvo Group is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden and is listed on the Nordic Stock Exchange in Stockholm, Sweden. As Sweden's largest industrial conglomerate, Volvo has production sites in more than 20 countries and regions around the world and operates in more than 190 markets, with customers concentrated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. It employs about 115,000 people worldwide. Volvo Group net sales in 2011 were SEK 310 billion, an increase of 17% over the previous year. Revenue amounted to 26.9 billion SEK.

In June 1915, the name "Volvo" first appeared on a SKF ball bearing and was officially registered as a trademark at the Royal Swedish Patent and Trademark Registration Office. From that day on, the ball and roller bearing sides of every SKF car were marked with the new Volvo logo. In Latin, "Volvere" is an infinitive of the verb "roll"; for example, a pistol with a runner is called "revolver." In the singular form, the verb "volvere" becomes "volvo, "and "I roll" means "I go forward." So Volvo means "rolling forward". Today, the Chinese name is unified to "Volvo", and in the past, there was also a Chinese name for "regal". Volvo V40 HD Atlas (7 photos)

The Volvo logo consists of three parts: a part of the circle representing Mars, the Roman god of war, which is the ancient chemical symbol of iron - a circle with an arrow pointing diagonally to the upper right corner. In Western civilization, this can be regarded as an ancient and common trademark, which originated in the Roman Empire, as a symbol of three different concepts of Mars, the Roman god of war and masculine masculinity, and thus reflects the original origin of Mars and the iron used to make most weapons at that time. Because of this, this symbol has long been regarded as a symbol of the steel industry in countries around the world, including Sweden. The reason why the brand logo representing the iron element is used on the car is to remind people of the glorious tradition of the Swedish steel industry, and the strength of steel. Volvo V60 HD Atlas (10 photos)

The second part is the diagonal, a diagonal ribbon set on the radiator that slopes from the top left to the bottom right. This ribbon was originally set up for technical reasons, to use the Mars symbol fixed on the grille, and later evolved into a decorative symbol to become the Volvo car's distinctive logo.

The third part is the Volvo company registered trademark, is written in ancient Egyptian font VOLVO words.

With 85 years of deep heritage and classic heritage, the Volvo Group is known as" Quality, secureThe core value of "environmental protection" has created the world-renowned Volvo brand, which has won a high degree of trust around the world and achieved a huge appeal. The Volvo Group has always used its values as a code of thought and action, integrated into products, services, operations and corporate responsibility behavior, to create value for customers while driving economy, societyEnvironmental sustainability.