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Volvo sells more cars in China than in Sweden

Friday, 05 April 2013
During the first quarter of this year, China has emerged as Volvo's second largest market, overtaking Sweden. But total sales still look shaky for the Swedish Chinese own car marker.

As it goes, the U.S. continues to be number one for the automaker but China is catching up, according to recent accounting information. Total Volvo cars sold stood at 98 817 cars in the first three months of this year, a decrease of 7.6 percent.

In essence, Volvocars has seen drop in sales every month this year compared to last year, but the greatest decline was in March, which it lost 10.4 percent. Most Volvo sales have declined in the United States.
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Volvo has decided to bring in over 300 temporary employees to its Swedish plants to cope with rate of increase in mid-May. It involves about 200 in Torslanda, around 100 in Olofström and 20 or so in Skövde / Floby.

Since last autumn, Volvo has done away with about 900 temporary employees because of declining sales. The last left the company at the end of the year.

But now there is a new demand for labour since Volvo will increase the pace of production in the factory in Torslanda from 45 cars per hour to 51 cars when the revamped models begin to be manufactured starting May 13.

"The fact that we use staffing employees is to try to be flexible, given the frequent ups and downs we see in the entire automotive industry," said Per-Ake Froberg, press officer for Volvo Cars.

The factory in Ghent, Belgium is also increasing the pace, but to a lesser degree, and can meet the increased work load with existing staff.
by Scancomark.com Team

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