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Volvo offers sneak peek of new car models

Business & Money: 19 Feb 13
Volvo Cars unveiled updated versions of several of its larger vehicle models on Monday with modifications designed to make them feel more luxurious and boost fuel efficiency. READ »

Volvo drives cash into its Swedish factories

Business & Money: 3 Dec 12
Volvo Cars will spend almost half of a multi-billion investment on its production in Sweden, the company said in a statement on Monday. READ »

Volvo halts production at Swedish plant

Business & Money: 15 Oct 12
Volvo Cars announced Monday that the there would be a week-long stop to production at one of their primary plants following a sluggish European auto market. READ »

Volvo profits plummet as global sales slump

Business & Money: 5 Sep 12
Swedish carmaker Volvo reported an 84 percent drop in operating profit through the first half of the year compared to 2011 amid slumping sales and tough competition. READ »

Gothenburg road flushed away by leaking pipeline

Science & Technology: 21 Apr 12
Water from a leaking pipeline has flushed away a section of a road on Hisingen in Gothenburg. The ruined road is country road 155, connecting central Gothenburg with districts Torslanda and Öckerö. READ »

Volvo Cars makes bid for bankrupt Saab: report

Business & Money: 23 Feb 12
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars has placed a bid for large parts of its bankrupt counterpart Saab Automobile. READ »

Sweden's Volvo Cars increases sales in 2010

Business & Money: 7 Jan 11
After two straight years of slumping sales, Sweden's Volvo Cars bounced back in 2010 despite continued weakness in the US. READ »

Wanted: 50 Volvo employees in China

Business & Money: 12 Oct 10
Volvo Cars is looking to relocate about 50 employees from Sweden to China as more details emerge about Geely’s plans for the Swedish carmaker's operations in China. READ »

Geely to build large Volvo factory in China

Business & Money: 20 Aug 10
The official website of the district of Jiading in Shanghai has announced that Volvo has decided to set up its Chinese headquarters and factory there. READ »

Saab and Volvo speed up production

Business & Money: 13 Aug 10
Swedish carmakers Saab and Volvo have both increased production to satisfy rising demand for their cars. Several hundred workers who had previously been laid off have been rehired. READ »

Gothenburg school destroyed in arson attack

National: 14 Nov 09
Fire-fighters were called out in the early hours of Saturday morning to Torslanda school in Gothenburg. The building has been completely destroyed in what police believe to be an arson attack. READ »

Volvo Cars celebrates upswing in sales

Business & Money: 15 Sep 09
A nearly four percent increase in worldwide sales for Volvo Cars in August signals a turning point, according to company head Stephen Odell, despite a continued sales drop in Europe. READ »

Belgium aids Volvo in bid to protect jobs

Business & Money: 25 May 09
The Flemish government has responded positively to an appeal from Volvo Cars CEO Stephen Odell to support its Belgian operations including guaranteeing European Investment Bank loans. READ »

Volvo Cars turns to Belgium for loan help

Business & Money: 14 May 09
Following a breakdown in talks between Volvo Cars and the Swedish government over loan guarantees, the automaker now plans to ask authorities in Belgium for help securing a loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). READ »

Factory workers boo Volvo Group CEO

National: 29 Apr 09
Volvo Group CEO Leif Johansson was booed and heckled by disgruntled employees during a visit to a Volvo truck plant in Tuve near Gothenburg. READ »

Volvo Cars to cut production in Sweden

Business & Money: 16 Jan 09
A drop in demand has moved Volvo Cars to reduce production at its main plant in Sweden in January and February, the company said on Friday. READ »

900 more jobs to go from Volvo Cars

Business & Money: 12 Sep 08
Volvo Cars announced on Friday it would be laying off an additional 900 employees. READ »

Volvo Cars to shed 1,200 jobs in Sweden

Business & Money: 25 Jun 08
Volvo Cars has given notice to 1,200 employees who will soon lose their jobs, primarily in Gothenburg and Olofström in southern Sweden. READ »

Volvo produces car number 15 million

Business & Money: 20 Feb 08
The first Volvo rolled out in 1927 and today number 15 million came off the line. READ »

Cars stolen from Volvo plant

Business & Money: 18 May 07
Up to 20 cars are reported to have been stolen from outside Volvo's Torslanda plant on Thursday night. READ »

Saab man to head Volvo production

Business & Money: 16 May 06
Saab Automobiles' head of production Lars Danielson is defecting to Swedish rival Volvo Cars. He will become the head of the Torslanda works. READ »

Volvo asked to recall 300,000 cars in USA

Business & Money: 4 May 05
Volvo could be forced to recall 300,000 of their cars in the USA to repair a faulty carburettor. The revelations published by the LA Times could cost the car giant over a billion kronor. READ »

Spring puts bounce back into Swedes

National: 2 Apr 04
Winter's gone, and it's absolutely, definitely, 100% certainly, no-doubt-about-it going to be a hot, sunny summer. Maybe. READ »

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