Volvo Group, formally Aktiebolaget Volvo or AB Volvo, is a Swedish multinational manufacturer headquartered in Gothenburg. Its core business is making, distributing and selling trucks, buses and construction equipment, and it also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. Founded in 1927, it began in the automobile industry and expanded into other sectors through the twentieth century. Volvo Cars was part of the group until 1999, when it was sold to Ford. In 2016 the group was the world's second-largest maker of heavy duty trucks through Volvo Trucks, and since 2001 it has owned Renault Trucks.
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is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg
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Volvo was founded in 1927.
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is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg
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is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg
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the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment
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the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment
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it has been a subsidiary of Volvo since 2001
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