Owner Gallery Bedard Bros. Volvo Cars

The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylized as VOLVO) is usually a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity would be the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, it had been the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also situated in Gothenburg, was portion of AB Volvo until 1999, when it had been sold to your Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 it is often owned by the Geely Holding Group, a Chinese multinational automotive manufacturing company. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Sweden.The company was initially listed about the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was about the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007.Volvo was established in 1915 like a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer; however their Volvo Group and Volvo Cars regard the rollout in the company's first car series, the Volvo ÖV 4, on 14 April 1927, because their beginning. The building remains.The manufacturer Volvo was originally registered like a trademark in May 1911 together with the intention to be played with for a new number of SKF ball bearings. It means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The idea was short-lived, and SKF chosen to simply use its initials because the trademark for everyone its bearing products.In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales director, as well as a KTH Royal Institute of Technology educated engineer Gustav Larson, the 2 main founders,[clarification needed] chosen to start construction of the Swedish car. They that will build cars that may withstand the rigors in the country's rough roads and cold temperatures.AB Volvo began activities on 10 August 1926. After 12 months of preparations regarding the production of ten prototypes, the firm was willing to commence the car-manufacturing business inside SKF group. The Volvo Group itself considers it were only available in 1927, in the event the first car, a Volvo ÖV 4, rolled away from the production line on the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg. Only 280 cars were built that year. The first truck, the "Series 1", debuted in January 1928, as a possible immediate success and attracted attention beyond the country. In 1930, Volvo sold 639 cars, plus the export of trucks to Europe started just after; the cars failed to become popular outside Sweden until after World War II. AB Volvo was introduced on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935 and SKF then chose to sell its shares within the company. By 1942, Volvo acquired the Swedish precision engineering company Svenska Flygmotor (later renamed as Volvo Aero).Pentaverken, that have manufactured engines for Volvo, was acquired in 1935, providing a good supply of engines and entry into your marine engine market.The first bus, named B1, was already released in 1934, and aircraft engines were added for the growing range of products in the beginning on the 1940s. In 1963, Volvo opened the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, the very first assembly plant from the company's history outside Sweden in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.In 1950, Volvo acquired the Swedish construction and agricultural equipment manufacturer Bolinder-Munktell. Bolinder-Munktell was renamed as Volvo BM in 1973. In 1979, Volvo BM's agricultural equipment business was sold to Valmet. Later, through restructuring and acquisitions, the rest of the construction equipment business became Volvo Construction Equipment.

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