DipityLoss-making Jaguar Land Rover has been granted a new five-year £170 million loan in a major boost to cash flow within the company.
Loss-making Jaguar Land Rover has been granted a new five-year £170 million loan in a major boost to cash flow within the company.
Land Rover has doubled its UK October sales in just a year in the 4x4 specialist’s best showroom performance for months, it was revealed today.
Land Rover has doubled its UK October sales in just a year in the 4x4 specialist’s best showroom performance for months, it was revealed today.
Jaguar Land Rover has been urged to repair workforce trust “damaged” by its new plan to close a factory at Solihull or Castle Bromwich as a campaign to protect thousands of Midland jobs went to Wes...
Jaguar Land Rover has been urged to repair workforce trust “damaged” by its new plan to close a factory at Solihull or Castle Bromwich as a campaign to protect thousands of Midland jobs went to Wes...
Unions have called a high level summit of MPs to an emergency meeting at the House of Commons to preserve thousands of West Midland jobs feared under threat at Jaguar Land Rover.
Unions have called a high level summit of MPs to an emergency meeting at the House of Commons to preserve thousands of West Midland jobs feared under threat at Jaguar Land Rover.
Jaguar Land Rover chief executive David Smith will talk to business people about his plans to drive the firm forward at an event this month.
Jaguar Land Rover chief executive David Smith will talk to business people about his plans to drive the firm forward at an event this month.
JLR owner Tata Motors reported a six per cent jump in sales in September over the same month last year thanks to strong growth in the Indian market.
Union leaders have accused Jaguar Land Rover bosses of “taking another trip to Fantasy Island” over promises that there would be no job losses when a West Midlands plant is closed.
Jaguar Land Rover owners Tata have been accused of “hiding” from workers and MPs, despite taking the decision to close a West Midlands plant.
The region’s business community last night broadly welcomed Jaguar Land Rover’s pledge to safeguard Midlands jobs when it closes a local plant in the next five years.
Indian car giant Tata has blamed Midland-based Jaguar Land Rover for a £41.2 million quarterly loss.
The Range Rover Sport and Discovery 4 production lines at Land Rover’s Solihull plant will return to five-days-a-week working at the start of next month as the company sees signs of its markets imp...
Birmingham Post Editor Marc Reeves, who has met Tata’s top management both in India and the UK, assesses their stewardship of Jaguar Land Rover.
Is a successful end in sight for Jaguar Land Rover’s long-fought campaign to persuade the Government to underwrite its loans and help it weather the recession?
Jaguar Land Rover chalked up joint pre-tax losses of nearly £350 million last year as the worst recession for decades took a huge toll on the automotive sector.
A long-awaited deal to seal Government guarantees over a crucial £340 million European Investment Bank loan for Jaguar Land Rover is finally within sight.
MPs have heard the view of business leaders, ministers, civil servants and union officials as they investigated the state of the automotive industry.
The Government was today accused of putting hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk by failing to give the automotive industry the support it needs to survive the recession.
Jaguar is booking advance orders for its new flagship XJ from potential buyers who have not even seen the car.
The man at the helm of Jaguar Land Rover says Indian conglomerate Tata’s move to buy the loss-making West Midland group was a “terrific decision.”
Staff at Jaguar Land Rover have been asked to agree to delayed salary payments until the end of the month "to ease cash-flow problems", it has been claimed.
A deal on crucial research and development money for Jaguar Land Rover needs to be done by the end of the summer – or the firm could suffer the same fate as MG Rover.
What can there be left to say? Months of discussion, thousands of words written, and as many people’s jobs at risk.
Land Rover’s bid to fight back from the worst recession for decades could be derailed – in a row over Sunday shift working.
Jaguar Land Rover is set to axe vital research and development projects because the Government’s heavily-hyped scheme to help car makers get loans has failed to provide a penny to any manufacturer,...
Land Rover has taken the The New York International Auto Show by storm by unveiling two world firsts on its new range of vehicles.
Manufacturing body EEF said a deal that saves troubled auto firm Jaguar Land Rover might still not be enough to prevent chaos on the supply chain.
Just how far down the road is Jaguar Land Rover toward producing the new generation fuel-efficient, eco-friendly cars it needs to secure its long-term future? Quite a long way, is the answer.
Jaguar Land Rover: THE nationalised Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland will be told by the Government to supply the additional funds that Jaguar Land Rover needs to survive.
Workers and bosses alike at Jaguar Land Rover’s plants in Castle Bromwich and Solihull will be relieved after the European Investment Bank announced it would lend £340 million to the cash-strapped ...
Jaguar Land Rover has received a boost after EU bankers approved a £340 million loan for the firm to invest in greener vehicles.
Car manufacturers including Jaguar Land Rover are waiting anxiously for a decision from the European Investment Bank today over vital funding that could keep companies’ heads above water.
Jaguar Land Rover is looking beyond the recession with plans to recruit more than 40 apprentices.
CRISIS-hit Jaguar Land Rover looks set for a £270 million cash bonanza following months of agonising waiting for 13,000 West Midlands workers and their families.
The Indian boss of Jaguar Land Rover has broken his silence to launch an unprecedented attack on the UK Government’s tardy response to appeals for loans to help the West Midland car maker survive t...
Birmingham Post editor Marc Reeves spoke to Tata chairman Ratan Tata in Mumbai about the consequences of continued Government inaction over Jaguar Land Rover.
The automotive industry’s pleas to the Government to take over the work of the banks – which seem to be on an indefinitely prolonged lending strike – have until now met with a response bordering on...
BMW chairman Norbert Reithofer has warned that government bail outs could weaken productive companies during the worst car sales climate for 40 years.
BMW chairman Norbert Reithofer raises valid concerns in his comments about government “bail-outs” in the automotive sector.
A Leamington-based language services firm has translated more than one million words for international automotive giant Jaguar Land Rover to enable the Midland carmaker to extend its global reach.
Land Rover was today given a huge £27 million boost with a Government grant to produce the “smallest, lightest and most efficient” Range Rover.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne called for the government to “live up to its side of the bargain” over Jaguar Land Rover following last week’s decision by employees to accept a pay freeze and a sh...
Innovation delivers profits - even in an economic downturn, says a senior Jaguar Land Rover executive.
Jaguar Land Rover could benefit from more state aid on top of the £2.3 billion package of loan guarantees announced last week, Ministers have confirmed.
Crucial talks to avoid a further 1,100 job losses at Jaguar Land Rover are due to resume today – as the crisis-hit group prepared to unveil another slump in sales.
The campaign to secure emergency government financial support for Jaguar Land Rover has been backed by Birmingham City Council.
Who would have thought that it could have come to this?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown writes for the Birmingham Post, insisting the Government is committed to ensuring the automotive industry remains central to the future of the West Midlands.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown writes for the Birmingham Post, insisting the Government is committed to ensuring the automotive industry remains central to the future of the West Midlands.
Car makers have warned that the £2.3 billion package of Government support has failed to address one of the key problems facing the automotive industry, as they predicted more job loses were inevit...
Jaguar Land Rover does not just build some of the greenest luxury cars on the markets, it claims its buildings are pretty eco-friendly as well.
Downing Street insisted Gordon Brown would not let Britain’s automotive industry die, as carmakers prepared for a summit with Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
Jaguar’s new XJ flagship saloon car, due to be unveiled later this year, will leave rivals “with all the appeal of yesterday’s cold potatoes”, one of the company’s top executives has claimed....
Another Jaguar Land Rover supplier has announced it will be cutting jobs in the Midlands, as an auto industry insider warned the supply chain as a whole could be under risk.
Jaguar Land Rover said it was facing “one of the worst recessions the world has experienced” – with a vital shopfloor vote which could avert up to 1,800 potential job losses looming.
Carmakers will find it easier to raise cash on the money markets thanks to the latest Government bail-out of banks, the Chancellor has promised.
How long is it going to take before the government comes to the aid of the UK car industry, Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, head of Warwick Manufacturing Group, asked last night.
Thousands of Jaguar Land Rover workers have less than two weeks before a crucial vote on whether to accept a pay freeze and other cutbacks - or risk the loss of up to 1,800 jobs.
Up to 1,800 production jobs are under threat at Jaguar Land Rover if workers do not agree to a pay freeze and a major new round of cutbacks.
In the evidence he gave to the Business and Enterprise Select Committee, Peter Mandelson set out a convincing case for supporting Jaguar Land Rover.
Jaguar Land Rover is to axe 450 jobs, including 300 managers, as part of a cost-cutting exercise, the company has announced.
The Midlands automotive industry was thrown a lifeline today as the government announced a multi-billion package of measures aimed at unblocking lending to small firms - there was nothing in the pa...
Almost 3,000 job losses were announced within hours of the Government unveiling a multi-billion pound rescue package aimed at unblocking lending to smaller firms hit by the financial crisis.
The Government needs to make a support package for Jaguar Land Rover that will not only help it survive the recession, but make it a market leader when the economy recovers, the head of the union r...
Worried Jaguar workers vowed to stay positive as they backed a Birmingham Post campaign calling on the government to help the Midland carmaker through the recession.
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby restated his total support for the campaign to secure a financial lifeline for Jaguar Land Rover.
The automotive industry is rapidly approaching crunch time, as the need for Government support for Jaguar Land Rover becomes increasingly acute.
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THE Federation of Small Businesses in the West Midlands is pleased to back the Birmingham Post’s campaign calling for government support for Jaguar Land Rover.
THE Federation of Small Businesses in the West Midlands is pleased to back the Birmingham Post’s campaign calling for government support for Jaguar Land Rover.
The Birmingham Post’s high-profile campaign to support Jaguar Land Rover has brought the plight of the West Midland automotive industry into sharp focus. Here, two businessmen working in automotive...
Gordon Brown warned that there are still “issues to be resolved” before the Government can decide whether to offer financial support to Jaguar Land Rover, as he visited Birmingham to highlight effo...
GORDON Brown today pledged some government support for Jaguar Land Rover – as the bleak prospect of thousands more West Midland job losses loomed ever closer.
Keeping employees in high-value jobs at carmakers such as Jaguar Land Rover will be cheaper for the country in the long-term than the cost of any aid they need to survive the recession and credit s...
Jaguar has been buoyed by figures showing it bucked the UK slump in car sales by a wide margin last year as demand for the Castle Bromwich-built XF sports saloon defied the credit squeeze and the g...
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The case for government assistance for Jaguar Land Rover is made even more compelling today with the news that its new car sales figures will be significantly better than expected.
David Smith, Chief Executive of Jaguar Land Rover, tells the Birmingham Post's John Cranage that JLR is not after a bail-out from the Government.
Booming annual car sales figures for Jaguar will put further pressure on the government not to let the successful company fail.
Shadow minister Sayeeda Warsi promised to buy a new Jaguar when she met with city Tories and business leaders, while giving her backing to the Birmingham Post campaign for Government support for JLR.
The Birmingham Post today launches one of the most important campaigns in its history – to urge the government to acknowledge that the UK automotive industry not only needs – but deserves its finan...
Home secretary Jacqui Smith has told Jaguar Land Rover workers that saving the country’s automotive industry was the “absolute priority” of business secretary Peter Mandelson.
Home secretary Jacqui Smith has told Jaguar Land Rover workers that saving the country’s automotive industry was the “absolute priority” of business secretary Peter Mandelson.
Dear Editor, It is hard for me to support the bail-out of Jaguar Land Rover, as much as I want the West Midlands to succeed.
Dear Editor, It is hard for me to support the bail-out of Jaguar Land Rover, as much as I want the West Midlands to succeed.
The West Midlands would become an industrial wasteland were Jaguar Land Rover allowed to fail, manufacturing expert Professor Lord (Kumar) Bhattacharyya said last night.
The West Midlands would become an industrial wasteland were Jaguar Land Rover allowed to fail, manufacturing expert Professor Lord (Kumar) Bhattacharyya said last night.
Jaguar Land Rover’s multi-billion pound investment in green automotive technology could be the trump card that secures Treasury backing for a government support package, insiders have told the Birm...
The Birmingham Post offers no apology for returning - again - to the question of whether or not Jaguar Land Rover should receive any Government aid to help it survive the most savage economic downt...
The Birmingham Post offers no apology for returning - again - to the question of whether or not Jaguar Land Rover should receive any Government aid to help it survive the most savage economic downt...
Jaguar Land Rover’s multi-billion pound investment in green automotive technology could be the trump card that secures Treasury backing for a government support package, insiders have told the Birm...
The effects of a potential collapse in the auto industry would be far more wide-ranging than previously imagined, the head of financial services firm KPMG in Birmingham has said.
About 13,000 workers at Jaguar Land Rover in the West Midlands are facing an anxious Christmas and New Year waiting to see if the Government comes up with a £1 billion cash lifeline to prop up the ...
‘Tis the season to be jolly, they say. Perhaps not if you work for Jaguar Land Rover though. Or a company who works for JLR. Or a company who works for a company who works for JLR.
‘Tis the season to be jolly, they say. Perhaps not if you work for Jaguar Land Rover though. Or a company who works for JLR. Or a company who works for a company who works for JLR.
The effects of a potential collapse in the auto industry would be far more wide-ranging than previously imagined, the head of financial services firm KPMG in Birmingham has said.
About 13,000 workers at Jaguar Land Rover in the West Midlands are facing an anxious Christmas and New Year waiting to see if the Government comes up with a £1 billion cash lifeline to prop up the ...
Union leaders are making last-ditch pleas to the Government to offer help to West Midlands car giant Jaguar Land Rover in a bid to safeguard tens of thousands of jobs.
Union leaders are making last-ditch pleas to the Government to offer help to West Midlands car giant Jaguar Land Rover in a bid to safeguard tens of thousands of jobs.
The Indian owner of West Midlands-based Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has agreed to pump "tens of millions" of pounds into the luxury car brand to prevent a cashflow crisis.
The Indian owner of West Midlands-based Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has agreed to pump "tens of millions" of pounds into the luxury car brand to prevent a cashflow crisis.
Ford announces it plans to sell both Jaguar Cars and Land Rover and took on Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and HSBC to advise it on the deal. The sale was initially expected to be announced by Septe...
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