2014 Volvo S60 Price, Photos, Reviews \u0026 Features

$2014 Volvo S60 Price, Photos, Reviews \u0026 Features$

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 will 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 headquartered in Gothenburg, was portion of AB Volvo until 1999, when that it was sold towards 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 for the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007.Volvo was established in 1915 being a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer; however both Volvo Group and Volvo Cars regard the rollout on the company's first car series, the Volvo ÖV 4, on 14 April 1927, for their beginning. The building remains.The manufacturer Volvo was originally registered being a trademark in May 1911 together with the intention for use for a new group of SKF ball bearings. It means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The idea was short-lived, and SKF chose to simply use its initials as being the trademark for everyone its bearing products.In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales director, along with a KTH Royal Institute of Technology educated engineer Gustav Larson, both the founders,[clarification needed] made a decision to start construction of any Swedish car. They that will build cars that can withstand the rigors in the country's rough roads and cold temperatures.AB Volvo began activities on 10 August 1926. After one full year of preparations between production of ten prototypes, the firm was willing to commence the car-manufacturing business in the SKF group. The Volvo Group itself considers it entered 1927, in the event the first car, a Volvo ÖV 4, rolled over production line for 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, as well as the export of trucks to Europe started just after; the cars wouldn't become recognized outside Sweden until after World War II. AB Volvo was introduced with 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 good supply of engines and entry in the marine engine market.The first bus, named B1, was released in 1934, and aircraft engines were added on the growing range of products with the beginning in the 1940s. In 1963, Volvo opened the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, the initial assembly plant from 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.