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" At 10 a.m. on April 14, 1927, Volvo sales manager Hilmer Johansson drove the first mass-produced \u00D6V4 model through the factory gates in Lundby in G\u00F6teborg. Now, 85 years later, the same model will pass through exactly the same gates to celebrate Volvo&amp;#039;s birthday. Stefan Jacoby, president and ceo of Volvo Car Corporation, and Olof Persson, president and ceo of the Volvo Group, will be on hand to pilot the car. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a fantastic car, but it&amp;#039;s easy to see how much has changed over the last 85 years,&amp;quot; says Stefan Jacoby.  The Volvo Group and Volvo Car Corporation are two companies with a long shared history. However, what was at that time one company began as a very unpromising project, because Volvo&amp;#039;s founders, Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson, had no direct experience with cars or the automotive industry. During its first year of production, Volvo sold a modest 300 cars. However, in the following year business really began to take off because the company also started manufacturing trucks and buses. Even back then, Volvo realized that the key to success lay in exports. &amp;quot;Our roots are still very important to us. Around 30,000 of the Volvo Group&amp;#039;s 120,000 employees work in Sweden, but 95 % of our products are sold overseas,&amp;quot; says Olof Persson. The equivalent figures for Volvo Car Corporation are 14,500 employees in Sweden out of a worldwide total of 21,500. Around 87% of all Volvo Car Corporation&amp;#039;s sales take place outside Sweden. . Related posts:  Volvo&amp;#039;s New 1.6 Volvo Sold First Look: 2011 Volvo S60  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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