Volvo Cars is Swedish by birth and Chinese by ownership.
Volvo Car AB shares began trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 29 October 2021 under the ticker VOLCAR B.
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Volvo Cars
99 years, three owners
The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.
- 1927 The first Volvo car built by Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson, the OV4, drove out of the factory in Gothenburg on 14 April 1927.
- 1999 Ford bought Volvo's worldwide passenger car business from AB Volvo for about 6.45 billion dollars, completing the purchase on 31 March 1999.
- 2010 Geely bought Volvo Cars from Ford for 1.8 billion dollars, completing the deal on 2 August 2010.
- 2021 Volvo Car AB shares began trading on Nasdaq Stockholm on 29 October 2021 under the ticker VOLCAR B.
Geely Holding
7 marques
Geely buys companies and keeps their names, rather than inventing badges.
Germany 1
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the United Kingdom 1
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