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Ownership

 
Scania was majority owned by the Wallenberg family, but over the years they have
diversified their interests. The major stock holders today are:

- Volkswagen - Scania's biggest share holder, after buying shares from Volvo's
                           aborted takeover, as well as Investor. Owns 34.32% of the
                          voting rights and 18.7% of Scania's share capital.
                          On March 6, 2007, this stake was increased to
                          20.03% of the capital and 35.31% voting rights.

- Investor AB - holds 20% of Scania's voting rights

- MAN AG - holds 15.6% of Scania's voting rights

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Scania AB is a leading European manufacturer of heavy trucks (British
English: lorries), buses, and diesel engines, based in Södertälje, Sweden.

 

History:

The company was founded in 1900 as Maskinfabriks AB Scania in the town of Malmö
in southern Sweden. Scania is Latin for the province of Skåne. In 1911 Scania
merged with another automobile and truck manufacturer, Vagnsfabriks Aktiebolaget
i Södertälje (founded in 1891) (VABIS) of Södertälje in mid-east Sweden, to form
AB Scania-Vabis. After the Second World War, Scania-Vabis imported Volkswagen
cars, under the banner of "Svenska Volkswagen AB".

In 1969 Scania-Vabis merged with SAAB, to form Saab-Scania AB. At this time, the
Volkswagen subsidiary was renamed "V.A.G. Sverige AB".

When the SAAB-SCANIA corporation was split in 1995 the name of the truck and bus
division changed to Scania AB.

In 1999, Volvo attempted to buy Scania using some of the cash received from the
Ford buyout of Volvo Cars, however the European Union blocked this as the merged
corporation would have had a virtual monopoly on heavy trucks in northern Europe.

As of June 30, 2006, the largest shareholder in Scania AB was the German
automaker Volkswagen AG, owning 18.7% of the capital and 34.0% of the voting
stock.

Scania produces only heavy trucks (i.e. over 16 metric tonnes or Class 8 in the
US) and heavy buses (over 12 tonnes), and is the world's third largest make in
these two segments.

Scania exports its trucks and buses to over 70 countries. They are regarded as
more high tech than others in their class. Scania places great emphasis on
technology, fuel efficiency and low emission.

Scania-Vabis and later Scania also manufactured trucks outside Sweden, in
Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Korea, Tanzania, The Netherlands, Zimbabwe and (temporarily)
in the USA.

Many examples of Scania, Vabis and Scania-Vabis commercial and military vehicles
can be seen at the Marcus Wallenberg-hallen (the Scania Museum) in Södertälje.