沃爾沃踏上重返股市之路

Volvo Cars set itself on the road to returning to the stock market as the Swedish carmaker raised fresh capital for the first time under Chinese ownership.

沃爾沃汽車(Volvo Cars)踏上了重返股市之路，這家瑞典汽車製造商在轉入中國股東旗下後首次籌集了新資本。

The Gothenburg-based premium manufacturer raised SKr5bn in convertible preference shares from three Swedish institutional investors.

這家位於哥德堡的高端製造商向三家瑞典機構投資者發行可轉換優先股，籌集了50億瑞典克朗的資金。

The shares can convert into listed ordinary shares, implicitly confirming long-held rumours that Volvo wants to seek a listing after more than a decade of ownership under first Ford Motor and now Zhejiang Geely of China.

這些股票可以轉換爲上市普通股，含蓄地證實了長期以來的傳言：沃爾沃在起初被福特汽車(Ford Motor)、如今被中國浙江的吉利(Geely)持有十多年後希望尋求上市。

Volvo has flourished under Geely’s ownership, boosting sales and profits as well as building factories in China and the US as part of its ambition to challenge the German premium manufacturers.

沃爾沃在吉利旗下蓬勃發展，提升了銷售和利潤，並在中國和美國設立工廠——這是爲了實現其挑戰德國高端製造商的雄心。

Volvo says there are no current plans to seek a stock market listing but people close to the carmaker say that is the clear target. A listing would be a vindication for Hakan Samuelsson, the veteran truck manager brought in as chief executive four years ago as well as Li Shufu, the founder and main owner of Geely.

沃爾沃表示，目前沒有尋求到股票市場上市的計劃，但知情人士表示，上市是一個明確的目標。上市將證明四年前進入擔任首席執行官的老牌卡車行業經理人漢肯.塞繆爾森(Hakan Samuelsson)以及吉利的創始人、主要股東李書福的正確。

AMF, Folksam and AP1, three Swedish investors, will take small stakes described as “very mildly dilutive” to Geely’s current 100 per cent holding of Volvo.

三家瑞典投資機構——AMF、Folksam和AP1——將持有沃爾沃的少量股權，外界描述此舉會“非常輕微地稀釋”吉利目前持有100%的沃爾沃股權。