The Group at a Glance
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (“Geely Holding” / “the Group”) was founded in 1986. In 1997, Geely Holding entered the automotive industry and has since focused our core business on the development and production of automobiles. Geely has continued to grow with a focus on continuous technological innovation, talent development, and strengthening core competitiveness, all the while staying committed to sustainable development.
Since 2012, Geely Holding has ranked among the Fortune Global 500 for twelve consecutive years (ranked 225th in 2023) with assets totaling over 510 billion RMB, and more than 120,000 global employees. Geely Holding ranked among Brand Finance’s Top 10 Most Valuable Auto Portfolio Brands 2022 — the only Chinese auto group on the list.
Geely Holding is committed to becoming a globally competitive and influential smart electric mobility technology enterprise and energy service provider, engaged in automotive, upstream and downstream industrial chains, intelligent travel services, green transportation capacity, digital technology, etc.
Headquartered in Hangzhou, Geely Holding today owns and manages a number of brands: Geely Auto, Lynk & Co, ZEEKR, Geometry, Volvo Cars, Polestar, Lotus, London Electric Vehicle Company, Farizon Auto, RADAR AUTO, and Cao Cao Mobility, and other brands are around the brand positioning and actively participate in market competition.
With the electrification and intelligent transformation of the automotive industry as the core, Geely Holding has also been developing cutting-edge technologies in new energy, shared mobility, vehicle networks, autonomous driving, on-board chips, low-orbit satellites, and laser communication, building a science and technology moat and strengthen the science and technology ecosystem.
Geely Holding has established R&D and design centres globally in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Gothenburg, Coventry, California, Frankfurt, etc., with more than 20,000 R&D and design personnel and more than 14,000 innovation patents. Geely Holding operates world-class vehicle and powertrain manufacturing plants in China, U.S., U.K., Sweden, Belgium, and Malaysia, meanwhile owning a worldwide sales and service network comprised of more than 4,000 branches.
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Geely Holding places great importance on fulfilling our social responsibility. The Group actively supports education, combining practical hands-on training, classroom education, and research. Through training engineers and technicians, and establishing 10 private higher education institutions, Geely has produced over 180,000 talents. In 2016, Geely launched its “Timely Rain” targeted poverty alleviation campaign which has seen Geely invest 700 million RMB in poverty alleviation, contributing to China’s battle against poverty. Through the four main actions of high-quality development of enterprises, sharing of development results, coordinated development of industrial chain and coordinated regional development, Geely has comprehensively launched the action plan for promoting common prosperity in high-quality development.
Through Geely Auto, Geely Holding has announced that it is an official prestige partner for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. Under the slogan “Enjoy E-mobility @ the Asian Games with Geely,” the Group aims to empower the Asian Games with green, intelligent, and humanistic technologies. A series of fully autonomous mobility solutions will be developed by Geely Auto by 2022 to service the Asian Games.
Geely Holding’s corporate mission is to “Align strategies, drive change and create value”. By upholding its management principle of “full authorization, compliance with laws and regulations, clear assessment, fairness and transparency”, the Group’s commitment to long-term sustainable development seeks scientific governance in areas of climate change, resource protection, travel safety, social responsibility, and business ethics, has lifted downstream and upstream partners to rise up together, helped the balanced development of regional economy, improved the global automotive industry, and given consumers mobility experiences that exceed their expectations.