Autoliv
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US0528001094 |
| founding | 1953 |
| Seat | Stockholm , Sweden |
| management | Mikael Bratt, CEO since 2018 |
| Number of employees | 72,000 (2017) |
| sales | US $ 10.4 billion (2017) |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.autoliv.com |
Autoliv is a Swedish-American manufacturer of automotive security systems . The company was founded in 1953 by Lennart Lindblad in Vårgårda , Sweden, and has been operating under the name Autoliv since 1968.
The brand name LIV for seat belts stood for Lindblads (car service) in Vårgårda, but the short form also has an ambiguity, because "Liv" is also the Swedish word for life.
history
In 1968 the company was renamed from Lindblads Autoservice AB to Autoliv AB , based in Vårgårda . In 1975 Autoliv was taken over by the Swedish company Gränges Weda AB and the company's founder Lennart Lindblad left the company in 1977. In 1979 the Swedish seat belt manufacturer Evert Larsson Industri AB is taken over by Autoliv.
In 1980 Autoliv became part of the Swedish Electrolux group and from 1984 changed its name to Electrolux Autoliv AB. After the shares were sold by Electrolux and the company went public, Electrolux Autoliv was renamed Autoliv in 1994 .
Today's Autoliv Inc. was created in 1997 through the merger of the leading European manufacturer of occupant protection systems Autoliv AB with Morton ASP (Automotive Safety Products), a US airbag manufacturer in North America and Asia. Since then, the company has been operating in the United States with headquarters in Stockholm . In 1997 the British seat belt manufacturer Marling Industries plc and its Dutch subsidiary Van Oerle-Alberton were taken over.
With this merger, Autoliv became one of the largest system providers for automobile occupant protection systems. Today the company develops, produces and sells automotive safety systems for all well-known automobile manufacturers worldwide. Occupant protection systems ( seat belts , front, side and knee airbags, seat systems with anti-whiplash function, integrated child seats), safety electronics and sensors, steering wheels, systems for pedestrian protection, driver assistance systems (e.g. night vision system, lane change assistant) as well as safety systems for accident avoidance are produced ( e.g. camera and radar sensors). The group has branches and joint ventures as well as development and testing facilities on all five continents.
In 2000 the second largest Japanese steering wheel manufacturer Izumi , based in Atsugi, was taken over . In 2001 airbag production in Ogden (Utah) in the United States is relocated to Santiago de Querétaro in Mexico.
In 2003, the steering wheel division of the Japanese Nippon Steering Industries (NSI) in Hiroschima and the German seat belt manufacturer Protektor based in Lübeck were taken over .
In 2004, numerous locations and plants in Western Europe were closed and relocated to Eastern Europe and Asia. Including Autoliv BV in Landgraaf in the Netherlands.
In 2008, the radar sensors for automobiles division of Tyco Electronics (then part of Tyco International ) for 42 million US dollars, based in Lowell (Massachusetts) in the United States and in Schweinfurt in Germany.
In January 2017, Autoliv and Volvo founded the joint venture Zenuity for the development of software for autonomous vehicles with headquarters in Gothenburg and further locations in Munich (Germany) and Detroit (USA).
On March 5, 2019, the European Commission imposed fines totaling 368,277,000 euros on Autoliv and the US company ZF TRW, which was acquired by the German ZF Friedrichshafen , for a violation of EU antitrust regulations . The Japanese company Takata was fined for having acted as a key witness to inform the Commission of the cartels. The product markets affected were the markets for seat belts , air cushions ( airbags ) and timing wheels for supplying the automobile manufacturers BMW and Volkswagen .
The Swedish company has 80 plants in 27 countries on every continent. The most important competitors are JSS Joyson Safety Systems and ZF TRW .
Autoliv in Germany
In 1959 Lennart founded Lindblad with the subsidiary Gebrüder Lindblad Schwedengurte e. K. in Germany the first branch.
In 1988, what was then Electrolux Autoliv took over Britax Kolb GmbH & Co. KG , based in Dachau, and in 1992, from Autoflug Rellingen , Norma GmbH, founded in 1965 and based in Norderstedt. The Autoliv Stakopress locations in Norderstedt and Rellingen with around 153 employees were closed in 2011 and an outsourcing to Estonia took place . From 1991 to 2014 Autoliv also had a plant in Döbeln (Autoliv Sicherheitstechnik GmbH).
There are currently two locations in Germany, the headquarters are in Elmshorn .
- Autoliv BV & Co. KG, North Plant ( Elmshorn )
- Autoliv BV & Co. KG, plant south ( Dachau ) with around 800 employees.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- 1995 Gunnar Bark
- 1996 Paul Charlety
- 1997-1998 Gunnar Bark
- 1999-2006 Lars Westerberg
- 2007-2018 Jan Carlson
- since 2018 Mikael Bratt
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ALV_AnnualReport_2017_Wrap_and_10-K. (PDF; 3.88 MB) AUTOLIV INC., Stockholm, Sweden, September 23, 2018, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Antitrust law: Commission imposes fines of EUR 368 million on suppliers of vehicle safety equipment in cartel settlement proceedings. In: europa.eu . March 5, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ http://infoarchiv-norderstedt.org/artikel/autoliv-schliesst-sein-werk-norderstedt/
- ↑ DöbelnWiki entry Autoliv
- ^ Autoliv Inc (ALV: NYSE) People: Mikael Bratt. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .