China's FAW eyes Volvo truck engine unit
Published: 20 Aug 2009 18:59:07 PST
Shanghai, August 20 (Gasgoo.com) First Automotive Works (FAW) is now holding preliminary
talks with
Volvo Group's
engine unit on a possible
acquisition,
Chinese newspaper
Beijing Times
reports Thursday, quoting
people familiar with the
case.
The informed people said a group of representatives of FAW have already gone to visit Volvo Penta, an affiliate of Volvo Group, in
Sweden and would negotiate about purchasing Volvo's truck engine
business.
Gao
Yuan, FAW Group's spokesman, and Jiang Lan, vice-president of Volvo (
China)
Investment Co, both denied any
knowledge of the deal.
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