Volvo Cars Sweden to cut 1,300 office jobs to reduce costs

CHINESE-owned Volvo Cars of Sweden said today that it would cut 1,300 white-collar positions in Sweden in an effort to cut costs and warned that global cost-cutting measures were to come.

CEO Jim Rowan said in a statement that cost-cutting measures taken last year had started to “bear results” but “it’s clear that we need to do more.”