Volvo Group is a Swedish company, which now produces passenger cars, trucks, buses, construction equipment, yachts and industrial engines. It was established in Gothenburg on 1927. The word Volvo, originally Latin, originally meant "rolling forward".
Volvo started as a car manufacturer. Its founders, Swedes gustaf larson and assar gabrielsson, first worked for SKF, a famous Swedish ball bearing manufacturer. Larson is an engineer, while Gabrielsson is an international marketing department manager with an economic background.
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Volvo Group is the first and only automobile manufacturer in the world to join WWF's "Pioneer of Carbon Emission Reduction" program. Volvo Group promised to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of its trucks, construction equipment and buses by 30 million tons by 20 14 years ago, setting an example for the industry.
"For Volvo, every year is a year of peace", which originated from an advertisement of Volvo.
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Baidu encyclopedia-Volvo