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On 28 October 2009, Ford named Geely the preferred buyer of Volvo Cars. [13] [14] On 23 December 2009, Ford confirmed that all substantive commercial terms for the sale to Geely had been settled. Geely signed a deal with Ford to acquire Volvo Cars for $1.8 billion on 28 March 2010 and closed the deal on 2 August 2010. [6]
Geely transferred its 11.3% stake in Zeekr Intelligent Technology (Zeekr) to Geely Automobile Holdings (Geely Auto), increasing Geely Auto's ownership in Zeekr to 62.8%. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] Zeekr then acquired a 20% stake in Lynk & Co from Geely Auto for 3.6 billion yuan and an additional 30% from Volvo Cars for 5.4 billion yuan, securing a 51% ...
Geely's first car, the Geely Haoqing, rolled off the assembly line in Linhai, Zhejiang on 8 August 1998. However, Geely did not obtain its national production license until 9 November 2001, which delayed mass production until 2002. [30] By 2002, the brand was ranked among the top ten in the Chinese automobile market. [30]
A year ago the two said they were planning to merge, giving Volvo access to public markets, as global automakers pursue alliances to respond better to the cost of the transition to electric cars ...
STOCKHOLM/BEIJING (Reuters) -Volvo Cars has struck a deal to buy out parent company Zhejiang Geely Holding from their joint ventures in China, in a move that could make a potential initial public ...
Ford Motor (F) announced Monday that it has completed the sale of Volvo, its Swedish unit, to China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. Geely put up $1.3 billion cash for Volvo and issued a note worth ...
Li founded Geely in November 1986; it is now the second-largest private automobile manufacturer in China. [4] On 28 March 2010, Geely signed a deal worth US$1.8 billion to buy Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars from American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor Company. [5] It was the largest foreign purchase by a Chinese car manufacturer.
Because Zhejiang Geely Holding already owns Volvo Cars, a stake in truckmaker AB Volvo (VOLVb.ST), and 49.9 percent of Malaysian automaker Proton, German executives fear any wide-ranging ...