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FORD Motor Cos Volvo Cars component determination end the come into view manufacture shift at the Torslanda factory in Sweden previous supposed intended and may cut an extra 900 jobs in reply to a ˜dramatic decline in Europe in new months. Volvo Cars counting now end the come into view shift in October, Volvo supposed in an e-mailed declaration yesterday obtained by Bloomberg News. The Gothenburg-based corporation had before aimed to stage out the shift in December. Ford, the second-largest United States auto maker, petroleum month named Stephen Odell CEO of Volvo Cars to succeed Fredrik Arp, who is leaving the company. The unprofitable car maker supposed in June it intended to decrease 2,000 jobs as fraction of a agenda to cut costs by 4 counting kronor (US$592 million).The job cuts approach following Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford terrified its objective of returning to income in 2009 since of increasing steel and oil costs. Volvo, construct lost US$151 compensation in the primary quarter, is Fords sole remaining Europe-based brand. ˜The dramatic decline in the marketplace condition of affairs in Europe in the history months, joint by means of ongoing falling similar in the US and a declining pace in emerging similar to has had main belongings on the worldwide auto industry, Volvo said. ˜The consequence for the premium segment is significant, by means of volumes declining at a earlier pace supposed for the accumulation producers.