Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:30:03 GMT From: Saab Guy <nothingnospamo.com> Subject: Re: GM to cut virtually all Saab's ties to Sweden
On 26 May 2005 19:00:16 GMT Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005 19:05:04 +0100, Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com> wrote: > > Dave Hinz wrote: > > > >> GM is a global company. And Saab hasn't been SAAB since they merged > >> with Scania. > > > > Scania is also Swedish ! > > > > http://www.scania.com/about/world/index.asp?country=&city=&pre= > > > > What part of Swedish don't you understand ? > > My point, which you could only be missing intentionally, is that it went > from being an acronym, to being a word, at that time. Maybe even > before. For anyone else, I'd go dig it up to see when Saab AB was > formed. Oddly, I don't have motivation to do your homework for you. > FYI RE: SAAB, then SAAB-SCANIA and now, Saab AB It was Investor, the owner of Saab-Scania, who decided to divide the two companies Saab and Scania into independent companies. One reason to that was that there were on synergies between Saab's consumer products and Scania's The process started In 1990, I think, when Investor sold half of its stake in the Saab car to GM. In 1995, Scania and Saab (the remaining part of their operations)t became independendet and a year later listed on the stock market.. Scania has no interest in buying Saab.