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People walking towards and away from Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford on 5th June 2025 in London, United Kingdom. This is Europes largest shopping complex. Stratford is now East Londons primary retail, cultural and leisure centre. It has also become the second most significant business location in the east of the capital. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

H&M billionaire quietly moves brand toward private ownership

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

Journalists wait outside as Swedish electric car battery developer and manufacturer Northvolt holds an extraordinary general meeting at the head quarters in Stockholm, Sweden, on Jan 8, 2025. Shareholders in Swedish electric car battery maker Northvolt agreed at an extraordinary general meeting to allow the financially-strained company to continue operating and avoid liquidation. (Photo by Henrik Montgomery/TT / various sources / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by HENRIK MONTGOMERY/TT/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)

Northvolt to stop production at end of June without buyer

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

Hakan Samuelsson, chief executive officer of Volvo Cars NV, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview after the unveiling of the XC40 Recharge electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Volvo is tying the launch of its first all-electric vehicle to a broader plan for shrinking the carbon footprint of its models by 40% through 2025. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Volvo Car brings back Samuelsson as CEO to steer turnaround

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

LOHE-RICKELSHOF, GERMANY – MARCH 25: Two employees in bright yellow jackets are walking at the ground-breaking for the new Northvolt Gigafactory electric car battery factory on March 25, 2024 in Lohe-Rickelshof, Germany. The factory, dubbed Northvolt Drei, will be powered by renewable energy and will eventually produce one million electric car batteries per year. (Photo by Gregor Fischer/Getty Images)

Northvolt unit files for bankruptcy as expansion plans halt

By Charles Daly, Rafaela Lindeberg, and others

Thomas Ingenlath, chief executive officer of Polestar Automotive Holding

Geely-backed Polestar pushes back results for second time in a year, as the Swedish carmaker battles accounting errors

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

Christian Levin, chief executive officer of Scania AB

BYD and other Chinese manufacturers will take on Europe, and should be viewed just as seriously as Tesla due to their ‘good battery technology’, says Scania CEO

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

A Polestar new energy vehicle store in Shanghai

Volvo is ditching most of its stake in struggling Tesla rival Polestar

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

Daniel Erver speaks

Shock CEO change at H&M sends shares plunging as profits fall short of estimates—but analysts ‘remain unconvinced’

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

Nokia is so annoyed people still think it makes phones that it redesigned its logo

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

A Volvo AB XC40 electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) displayed during the Electrify Expo in Irvine, California, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. Electrify Expo is North America’s largest e-mobility festival that gathers the world’s top electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers. Photographer: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Volvo announces $2.9 billion IPO as it looks to fund shift to electric cars and catch up with Tesla

By Charles Daly, Rafaela Lindeberg, and others

Lettering spelling out Riksbank adorns a desk ahead of a Sveriges Riksbank news conference at the central bank headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. Sweden’s central bank ended half a decade of subzero easing in a move that will provide relief to the finance industry and a test case for global counterparts experimenting with negative borrowing costs. Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg

New digital currency study leads Swedish Central Bank to push back plans for digital currency—again

By Rafaela Lindeberg, Ott Ummelas, and others

TOPSHOT – Preparations take place at Stockholm’s City Hall to convert the venue for the Nobel Prize banquets into a Covid-19 vaccination centre for a day on February 21, 2021 in the capital of Sweden, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

One year after the pandemic began, Sweden is facing the prospect of its first lockdown

By Rafaela Lindeberg and Bloomberg

Passengers inside an underground train wear masks to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 07, 2021. – The Public Health Agency of Sweden advises public transport travellers to wear a mask during rush hours, starting from today. (Photo by Jessica Gow / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JESSICA GOW/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

As deaths surge, Sweden reverses its light touch approach to contain rising infections

By Rafaela Lindeberg, Niclas Rolander, and others

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – SEPTEMBER 08: King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden attend a church service at Stockholm Cathedral in connection with the opening of the Swedish Parliament for the fall session on September 8, 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by Michael Campanella/Getty Images)

Sweden’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a failure, says the King of Sweden

By Niclas Rolander, Charles Daly, and others

Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell of the Public Health Agency of Sweden addresses a news conference updating on the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) situation, in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 29, 2020. (Photo by Anders WIKLUND / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by ANDERS WIKLUND/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Public confidence in Sweden’s controversial COVID-response architect ‘in a downward spiral’

By Rafaela Lindeberg, Charles Daly, and others