Volvo noticed a return to strong development in China throughout the second quarter, and anticipated an identical upturn in the USA and Europe. Nonetheless, its deliberate merger with Geely Car Holdings Ltd had been quickly placed on maintain as a consequence of Geely Auto’s plans to checklist in China.
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Volvo Automobiles plans to merge with Geely Car and checklist in Hong Kong and probably Stockholm as effectively
Volvo Automobiles stated it expects its enterprise to get better within the second half of the 12 months after reporting on Tuesday an working loss for the primary six months as coronavirus lockdowns strained provide chains and compelled plant closures.
The Swedish-based carmaker additionally stated that its deliberate merger with Geely Car Holdings Ltd had been quickly placed on maintain as a consequence of Geely Auto’s plans to checklist in China. The businesses will resume talks within the autumn.
Volvo noticed a return to strong development in China throughout the second quarter, it stated, and anticipated an identical upturn in the USA and Europe.
Volvo’s deliberate merger with Geely Car Holdings Ltd had been quickly placed on maintain as a consequence of Geely Auto’s plans to checklist in China
“If the market recovers as we anticipate, we anticipate gross sales volumes to return to the degrees we noticed within the second half of 2019 and it’s also our ambition to return to related revenue ranges and money movement,” CEO Hakan Samuelsson stated in a press release.
Market restoration has allowed the corporate to renew manufacturing in all factories, besides the Charleston plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, Volvo stated.
Volvo Automobiles, which was purchased by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd from Ford Motor Co in 2010, plans to merge with Geely Car and checklist in Hong Kong and probably Stockholm – in addition to on a inventory market in mainland China.
Geely Car stated final month that its board had permitted a preliminary proposal to checklist new renminbi shares on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-like STAR board.
“In reference to this (the Shanghai itemizing) Geely Auto can’t talk about a possible mixture of the businesses,” a Volvo Automobiles spokeswoman stated in regards to the merger. Talks would resume as quickly as Geely Auto had “ended its actions associated to that”, she stated.
The Gothenburg-based carmaker reported an working lack of 989 million Swedish crowns ($110 million) for January-June, versus a 5.52 billion revenue within the first half of final 12 months, as revenues fell 14% to 111.eight billion crowns.
Volvo had warned in March that gross sales, earnings and money movement within the first half of 2020 would decline from a 12 months in the past because the coronavirus pandemic weighed on its enterprise. In April it introduced plans to make 1,300 white-collar employees in Sweden redundant.
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