Deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in April 2013 amounted to 16,572 vehicles. This was a decrease of 2% compared with the year-earlier month.

Volvo Treasury AB (publ) has today published its annual report for 2012.

The number of votes in AB Volvo has changed due to the conversion of a total of 317,343 Series A shares to a total of 317,343 Series B shares. The conversions were implemented with the support of the opportunity for Series A shareholders to request conversion of Series A shares to Series B shares, which was entered in the Articles of Association at the 2011 Annual General Meeting.

The Volvo Group’s first quarter of 2013 was characterized by low sales volumes and low capacity utilization, while we continued to keep a high pace in the work to develop and launch new products. Net sales for the first quarter declined 25% to SEK 58.3 billion, primarily as a result of the weak order intake in late 2012. The sales volumes were the lowest since the financial crisis and were on the level of the first quarter of 2009. Then, the Volvo Group reported a loss of SEK 4.5 billion, compared with a profit of SEK 0.5 billion for the first quarter this year.

Håkan Agnevall has been appointed President Volvo Bus Corporation. He will assume his new assignment in June, 2013.

AB Volvo hereby invites the media to a press conference on April 25 2013 in conjunction with the release of the Volvo Group report for the first quarter 2013. The press conference will take place 09:00 at Tändstickspalatset in Stockholm.

De tijdelijke meervraag naar zware Volvo vrachtwagens zal in Gent opgevangen worden door het introduceren van een tijdelijke vaste nacht vanaf 25 augustus. Ondertussen is het bedrijf gestart met het rekruteren van 350 extra medewerkers.

The Annual General Meeting of AB Volvo held on April 4, 2013 approved the Board of Directors’ motion that a dividend of SEK 3.00 per share be paid to the company’s shareholders. The record date for dividends was established as April 9, 2013.