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The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylized as VOLVO) is really 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 absolutely was the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also operating out of Gothenburg, was section of AB Volvo until 1999, when it absolutely was sold on the Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 many experts have 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 listed within 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 both Volvo Group and Volvo Cars regard the rollout from the company's first car series, the Volvo ÖV 4, on 14 April 1927, for their beginning. The building remains.The brand Volvo was originally registered like a trademark in May 1911 using the intention to be played with for a new group 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 as being the trademark for many its bearing products.In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales director, along with a KTH Royal Institute of Technology educated engineer Gustav Larson, the 2 founders,[clarification needed] chosen to start construction of an Swedish car. They created to build cars that might 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 between production of ten prototypes, the firm was willing to commence the car-manufacturing business inside SKF group. The Volvo Group itself considers it began in 1927, once the first car, a Volvo ÖV 4, rolled off of the production line in the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg. Only 280 cars were built that year. The first truck, the "Series 1", debuted in January 1928, for an immediate success and attracted attention beyond your country. In 1930, Volvo sold 639 cars, plus the export of trucks to Europe started shortly after; the cars didn't become well-known outside Sweden until after World War II. AB Volvo was introduced in the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935 and SKF then thought we would sell its shares inside company. By 1942, Volvo acquired the Swedish precision engineering company Svenska Flygmotor (later renamed as Volvo Aero).Pentaverken, which have manufactured engines for Volvo, was acquired in 1935, providing a good supply of engines and entry in the marine engine market.The first bus, named B1, was already released in 1934, and aircraft engines were added to your growing range of products for the beginning in the 1940s. In 1963, Volvo opened the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, the 1st assembly plant within the company's history beyond 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.