Geely's Volvo Cars' boosted sales in April 12.2% year on year with growth in all main markets helped by new model launches.

The tally for the month was 52,635 cars compared with 46,895 in April 2017.

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Sales of the new XC40 as well as the 90 series cars were the main growth drivers in April. In the first four months of 2018, sales rose 13.6% to 200,042 cars.

In China, the automaker's largest market, sales increased 20.2% following strong demand for the locally produced XC60 SUV and S90 saloon. Sales reached 10,442 cars, up from 8,687 a year ago.

Sales in Europe rose 3.1% to 26,360 cars last month after good results for the XC40, XC60 and 90 series models.

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Geely's Volvo Cars boosted first quarter 2018 operating profit 3.6% year on year to MSEK3,616m.

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Sales revenue rose 18.9% to MSEK56,813m but net profit slipped 1.8% to MSEK2,558m.

The EBIT margin also fell, to 6.4% from 7.3%.

US volume rose 17% to 8,333 boosted by SUV sales.