Geely
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| Holding company | |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | Taizhou, Zhejiang, China (1986) |
| Founder | Li Shufu |
| Headquarters | 1760 Jiangling Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Li Shufu (Chairman) Yang Jian (President) |
| Products | Automobiles, motorcycles, engines, transmissions |
| Revenue |
 RMB 21,738,358,000 (USD 3.3 billion), 2014 |
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RMB 1,449,128,000 (USD 220 million), 2014 |
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Number of employees
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18,481 |
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List
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| Website | geely.com |
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| Simplified Chinese | 吉利控股集团 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 吉利控股集團 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Jílì Kònggǔ Jítuán |
Geely (officially Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd) is a Chinese multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Its principal products are automobiles, taxis, motorcycles, delivery vans, engines, and transmissions. It sells passenger cars under the Geely and Volvo brands and taxis under the London Taxi brand. Delivery vans are sold under the brand Emerald.
Geely has owned the Swedish passenger car maker Volvo Cars since 2010 (with the CEO Håkan Samuelsson who is active since Oct 19, 2012 to current date), when it acquired the company from Ford. It has owned the British taxi maker The London Taxi Company since 2012.
Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd (Chinese: 吉利汽车; pinyin: Jílì Qìchē) (: 0175), a subsidiary of Geely, is listed on the .
Geely (Chinese: 吉利; pinyin: Jílì) means "auspicious" or "lucky" in Mandarin Chinese.
Founding Geely in 1986 as a refrigerator maker with money borrowed from family,Li Shufu transformed the company into a success selling inexpensive products to Chinese consumers. A pioneer private Chinese automaker, in 2003 it remained the only domestic car manufacturer to lack ties to the Chinese state, although another indigenous, politically independent automaker, BYD Auto, was rising around this time. (Great Wall Motors may be considered another firm less burdened with ties to the state.)
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