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Organizational structure
The Volvo Group’s business activities are organ-
ized into six business areas: Group Trucks, Con-
struction Equipment, Buses, Volvo Penta, Gov-
ernmental Sales and Volvo Financial Services.
The Group Trucks operations, which account
for almost two-thirds of the Group’s total sales,
are organized into fi ve divisions. There are three
sales and marketing divisions: Group Trucks
Volvo
Financial
Services
Chief Executive Offi cer
Corporate Strategy
Corporate Sustainability & Public Affairs Corporate Legal & Compliance
Volvo Penta
Corporate Human Resources Corporate Finance & Control
Construction
Equipment
Group Trucks
Sales & Market-
ing EMEA
Group
Trucks
Technology
Group Trucks
Sales & Market-
ing Americas
Business
Areas
Group Trucks
Sales & Market-
ing and JVs
APAC
Group
Trucks
Operations
Corporate Communication Corporate Process & IT
Buses
Governmental Sales
GROUP TRUCKS
Sales & Marketing Americas (with responsibility
for North and South America), Group Trucks
Sales & Marketing EMEA (with responsibility for
Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and Group
Trucks Sales & Marketing and JVs APAC (with
responsibility for Asia and the Pacifi c region
and for the Group’s joint-venture truck compa-
nies). There is also a division with responsibility
for product development of engines, transmis-
Group common
Business specifi c
Vision
Group Trucks/BA long-term plans
Group
Trucks
Volvo
CE
Volvo
Buses
Volvo
Penta
Gov.
Sales VFS
Wanted position
Group long-term plans
Corporate values, Group policies, directives and guidelines
Sustainable development
Key focus areas &
Strategic objectives sions and trucks as well as for purchasing: Group
Trucks Technology (GTT). Finally, Group Trucks
Operations (GTO) is a division within Group
Trucks with responsibility for production of trucks
and the Group’s engines and transmissions. GTO
is also responsible for the Group’s spare parts
supply and logistics operations.
There are seven Corporate Functions: Cor-
porate Human Resources, Corporate Sustaina-
bility and Public Affairs, Corporate Communica-
tion, Corporate Finance & Control, Corporate
Legal & Compliance, Corporate Process & IT
and Corporate Strategy, providing support to
the CEO and the Group Executive Team with
expertise in each Corporate Function area and
developing standards for the entire organization
through policies, directives and guidelines. In
addition there are more than twenty Group
Functions that provide services and/or prod-
ucts to the entire Group, for example IT Ser-
vices and Business Services.
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