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The Volvo Truck Corporation is the second-largest heavy-duty truck brand in the world; more than 95% of the trucks we build are in the heavy weight class above 16 tonnes. Our trucks are sold and serviced in more than 140 countries all over the world. The company's retail strategy is based on customer orientation and is supported by over 2300 dealerships and workshops. The trucks are the core products in our total offer, which also includes aftermarket, service and extended offers. Volvo Trucks has a production structure based on global presence. We have eight wholly-owned assembly plants and nine factories owned by local interests. About 95% of the company's production capacity is located in Sweden, Belgium, Brazil and the USA. Throughout our production apparatus and our entire organisation we focus on our core values: Quality, Safety and Care for the Environment. With 21,000 dedicated employees, Volvo Trucks strives to have satisfied customers and to be an attractive employer.
Contact Information
7900 National Service Rd
Greensboro, North Carolina 27409
1 336 393 3889
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Automobile Manufacturing: 336111
Recent Events
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Swedish consortium vies for Volvo Cars: report
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Ford Executives Said to Revise Volvo Bid
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Geely: Volvo Gets to Keep Intellectual Property If We Buy Company
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• GM's Saab deal falls through
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Geely Taps China Banks for Volvo Financing
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Geely taps China banks to back $1.8 billion Volvo deal
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HONG KONG NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - DEC 8, 2009
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Geely taps China banks to back Volvo deal: sources (Reuters)
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Geely To Acquire Volvo's Key Technologies
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Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day for 11/27: F, S/IPCS, STAR/CSCO, HRAY
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Volvo Recalls MY 2010 XC60s
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Volvo delivers first production model trucks with EPA2010-compliant engines
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Too many cars, too few customers
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Stocks Follow Weak Housing Data; CPI Up
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Ford and Mazda Separating? - Autoline Daily 283
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NISSAN DIESEL TO MERGE WITH VOLVO NIPPON
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Volvo Ocean Race
- 2008-10-01
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The eight boats competing in the Volvo Ocean Race formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race, held every three years, are competing in an in-port race on 4 October before leaving on the first leg of the round-the-world classic on 11 October, to Cape Town. The...
Sporting digest: Sailing
- 2004-09-30
As fomer syndicate head and pounds 22m backer Peter Harrison moves further into the background, the GBR Challenge for the America's Cup confirmed yesterday that sponsorship talks with HSBC had been terminated. A second private investor's participation was also contingent on outside corporate funding. Although a deadline of 31 August...
Sailing: Blake: ocean racers lose their guiding beacon
- 2001-12-09
Last week 97 Volvo Ocean Race sailors emerged from a tough ordeal: successfully negotiating the Southern Ocean racing at the pace of an Olympic race, a pace that saw boats, crews and equipment fail under the duress and saw three of Grant Dalton's Amer Sports One crew - including Dalton...
Racer's Edge.
- 2001-10-01
Prada chief Patrizio Bertelli, who mounted a challenge in last year's America's Cup race, isn't the only Italian fashionista with sailboat racing in his blood. Leonardo Ferragamo son of Salvatore, whose day job includes managing the family's real-estate properties, has entered the round-the-world Volvo Ocean ...
Experience Ocean Racing's Everest.(Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread))(Brief Article)
- 2001-10-01
Speed through iceberg-strewn seas and endure ship-swallowing squalls--and you just might live to see the end of the Volvo Ocean Race formerly the Whitbread. To see what to survive, and win, this round-the world regatta, visit nationalgeographic.com/volvoocean race. Explore one of the race's state-of-the-art yachts, test...
A battle between control and calamity, and you can't afford to cross
- 2001-09-23
J ez Fanstone, the only British skipper in the Volvo Ocean Race, has a touch of flu. Not quite the ideal preparation for an event which drains mental and physical reserves, but nothing likely to outlast 120 days of ocean winds and adrenaline rushes. ...
Yacht: Volvo crews to face nine months of gruelling racing
- 2001-09-22
AAP Sports News Australia 09-22-2001 Yacht: Volvo crews to face nine months of gruelling racing By Justin Palmer LONDON, Sept 22 Reuters - The world's most famous global yacht race gets underway on Sunday when...
Sporting Digest: Sailing
- 2001-06-21
An all-woman boat skippered by the Hamble-based American Lisa Charles- McDonald will complete the line-up of eight for this year's Volvo Ocean Race, starting off Southampton on 23 September. Charles- McDonald was part of the EF Language crew that contested the previous round of the world race in 1997-98 when...
The power of zero
- 2001-04-01
One of the key changes to the next Volvo Ocean Race is the introduction of the massive masthead genoas known as "Code Zeroes". Offshore's Chris Thompson sailed aboard the Assa Abloy team's training boat to see what life will be like when these sails filter down to smaller boats. ...
Stage Set For Head-To-Head
- 2000-12-01
The 2000 Telstra Sydney to Hobart features a big fleet of the new breed of water-ballasted, asymmetric-spinnakered lightweight big boats. They'll face the regular IMS Grand-Prix racers, and an IRC class that's growing in size and competition. Associate Editor Peter Campbell looks at the fleet for this year's classic. ...
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