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2004 AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE WOMAN OF THE YEAR: The women who changed Volvo

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By:
Bradford Wernle
January 24, 2005 05:00 AM
The Volvo YCC Team

From left:
Maria Widell Christiansen, design manager, (born 1959);
Eva-Lisa Andersson, project manager, (born 1958);
Elna Holmberg, technical project manager, (born 1960);
Maria Uggla, color and trim designer, (born 1962);
Camilla Palmertz, project manager (born 1967);
Cynthia Charwick, interior designer (born 1957)*;
Anna Rosen, exterior designer (born 1976);
Lena Ekelund, deputy technical project manager (born 1962); and
Tatiana Butovitsch Temm, communications manager (born 1961)
* has since left Volvo

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – Volvo’s YCC (Your Concept Car) began as a conversation between two women in a doorway at a company seminar here. The seminar topic was: How Volvo should cater to women customers.

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