Volvo AB

Headquarters location: Göteborg Tel. 46-31-59-66-00 Job offers, investor relations: www.volvo.com Stock:

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« ETHICAL » RATING OF VOLVO , group and subsidiaries [?] 15% Job: 15% of company's jobs cut since 1998 27 Sales: more than 27 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales 4 Net profit: more than 4 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 1 Influence: 1 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying 1 Advertising & marketing: 1 dubious practice(s) Full profile >>>
Relevance: business & market share year business source 2006 Its subsidiary Renault Trucks sells 35% of the trucks bought in France. Les Echos 2006 Volvo sold 19,2% of the trucks bought in North America in the first half of 2006. Les Echos 2004 Second-largest truck maker in the world. World locations & Manufacturing country incentive : address & contact : production type source   Wroclaw : Puls Biznesu   : Production, montage de 15 000 camions par an. Les Echos The map of tax haven, secret accounts and shell companies Volvo is managed by year name photo position; compensation source 2000Ramqvist, Lars Chairman; 1999Johansson, Leif Chief Executive Officer; Highest paid executives in 2007 Advertising & marketing year dubious practice : image source 2000 Arguable partnership: Global Compact with the United Nations: value: Respects human, social and environmental laws; 2000 ad 1996 ad budget: 288 million US$; Advertisin. Dubious practices in 2007

Made by year employees <> social impact : country source 2005 -150 Closure/Bankruptcy: Fermeture de l'usine d'autocars de Heilbronn. "Cette décision est conforme à la stratégie à long terme de Volvo Buses consistant à améliorer la profitabilité (...) et à concentrer la production sur les principaux sites" explique un porte-parole du groupe.: Germany Reuters 2005 250 Other: Plans to hire more Polish economists (bookkeeping for all Volvo’s Europe factories) and IT specialists (programming and computers' service also in Sweden). Hans Nordström of Volvo Business Services declares that Polish economists are four times cheaper than the Swedish ones. Volvo’s spokesman Mårten Wikforss concludes that low wages in Poland create profits for the whole concern and therefore have impact on development and employment in Sweden.: Poland 2005 -150 Closure/Bankruptcy: Spain 2004 -443 Autoactu.c. 2001 -4050 Les Echos 2001 -900 Les Echos 2001 -950 Les Echos 2001 -1400 Les Echos 2000 54270 2000 -1600 Les Echos 1998 79050 Layoff plans and labour conditions in 2007 Influence year purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source 1999 Deregulation and "maximum liberalization" through WTO, GATS : TABD (Transatlantic Business Dialogue) : : US Government / European Commission translate Corporate . Influence in 2007 Subsidy year donator country amount source 2005 Etat Poland 1 million Eu€ Puls Bizne. Financials year   sales income buyback source 2006   27 1.8   billion Eu€ 2003   0.03   billion Eu€ 2002   0.15   billion Eu€ 2000   13.8 0.5   billion US$ 1999   1.22 billion US$ SmartMoney 1998   26.28 1.07   billion US$ Financial delinquency in 2007

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