If you want a great example of a success story, look no further than Volvo Cars. Since Geely lent them a helping hand, the company has been posting excellent numbers all around. Just this week, they reported that their revenue for 2019 increased by 8.5% compared to the previous year. That’s US$28,478,513,066 made in one year.
This was also the 6th year of record-breaking sales for the company, and in 2019 they hit their 700,000 sales mark for the first time.
It’s difficult to get too excited about numbers, so here are some new videos the company released this week as well.
But if numbers are what you’re after, check out the press release below.
PRESS RELEASE
Volvo Cars today reports that revenue for 2019 rose by 8.5 per cent to SEK274.1 billion, compared to revenue of SEK252.7 billion in 2018.
Operating profit for the full year 2019 improved to SEK14.3 billion, an 0.8 per cent increase compared to SEK14.2 billion in 2018. Cash flow more than doubled compared to 2018 to SEK11.6 billion.
The result follows the company’s earlier announcement of a sixth consecutive global sales record in 2019, as it sold over 700,000 cars for the first time in its history.
Both profits and margins during the second half were better than in the second half of 2018. Profitability during the period was driven by continued strong growth in volume, especially in SUVs, as well as cost efficiency measurements initiated early in 2019.
The full year operating margin amounted to 5.2 per cent, compared to 5.6 per cent in 2018.
“The year 2019 was another year of growth in which we achieved a robust financial result and continued our transformation as a company,” said Håkan Samuelsson, chief executive. “I am pleased to see that the cost efficiency actions we put in place had an effect, especially in the second half of the year.”
Volvo Cars’ sixth consecutive year of record sales was the result of strong peformances in all major regions, as well as several records in individual markets. Despite stagnating global car markets, the company gained market share in China, the United States and Europe.
In China, Volvo Cars sold 154,961 cars in 2019, an increase of 18.7 per cent versus 2018 and comfortably outperforming the overall market. The result is an all-time record for Volvo Cars in China and the highest sales number it has ever reached in a single market.
In the United States, the company sold 108,234 cars, increasing sales by 10.1 per cent and breaking the 100,000 cars sold threshold for the first time since 2007.
In Europe, the company sold more than 50,000 cars in Germany for the first time in its history, while it realised its best sales result since 1990 in the United Kingdom.
Markets that also recorded their best ever sales performance in the company’s history included Australia, Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Korea, Poland and Portugal.
Other operational highlights in 2019 include Volvo Cars’ commitment to become a climate neutral company by 2040, the reveal of its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge, as well as a brand new Recharge car line of chargeable Volvos to boost sales of plug-in hybrids and fully electric cars.
