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The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylized as VOLVO) can be a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity may 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 turned out 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 turned out 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 initially listed for the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was around the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007.Volvo was established in 1915 as being 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 name brand Volvo was originally registered like a trademark in May 1911 with all the intention to use for a new combination of SKF ball bearings. It means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The idea was short-lived, and SKF made a decision to simply use its initials since the trademark for those its bearing products.In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales team manager, and also a KTH Royal Institute of Technology educated engineer Gustav Larson, the 2 main founders,[clarification needed] chose to start construction of your Swedish car. They meant to build cars which could withstand the rigors with the country's rough roads and cold temperatures.AB Volvo began activities on 10 August 1926. After one full year of preparations relating to the production of ten prototypes, the firm was wanting to commence the car-manufacturing business inside the SKF group. The Volvo Group itself considers it began in 1927, if the first car, a Volvo ÖV 4, rolled 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, being an immediate success and attracted attention beyond your country. In 1930, Volvo sold 639 cars, plus the export of trucks to Europe started right after; the cars didn't become well-known outside Sweden until after World War II. AB Volvo was introduced for the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935 and SKF then thought we would sell its shares within the 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 safe and secure supply of engines and entry in to the marine engine market.The first bus, named B1, premiered in 1934, and aircraft engines were added on the growing range of products in the beginning with the 1940s. In 1963, Volvo opened the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, the primary 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 remainder construction equipment business became Volvo Construction Equipment.