Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 22nd October, 2010 Thousands of jobs are set to be created after Jaguar Land Rover’s U-turn on plans to close a Midland plant and now the pressure is on suppliers to benefit from the decision. Experts say JLR delivered the best news for the region’s automotive industry in a decade by [...]

David Bailey, Birmingham Post, 15th October, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to keep open both factories in the region, at Solihull and Castle Bromwich, marks a surprising and most welcome u-turn. Even a couple of weeks ago Carl-Peter Forster, CEO of Tata Motors, insisted at the Paris Motor Show that JLR wanted to merge plants; [...]

Birmingham Post, 15th October, 2010 Car giant Jaguar Land Rover is to invest billions of pounds in its business, creating thousands of new jobs and safeguarding its UK factories, including two in the West Midlands, it has announced. The new jobs will include 1,500 at the Halewood plant on Merseyside next year, while the other [...]

Jaguar Land Rover today confirmed that a landmark pay and conditions settlement has been reached after a period of negotiation with the Trade Unions representing the two brands’ workforce – the deal has been concluded following an intensive study to determine the future Jaguar Land Rover strategy for both brands. The agreement, which the Trade Unions representing the [...]

Paul McVeigh, Automotive News Europe, 23rd September, 2010 Land Rover has now issued more information about the Range Rover Evoque, which was first unveiled in July, ahead of the model’s public debut at the Paris Motor Show later this month and the price of the three-door version will start at £30,000 in the UK. The [...]

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the leading manufacturer of luxury vehicles, is seeking more than 1,000 talented Engineers, Supervisors and Production Operators to help launch the all new Range Rover Evoque which will be built at Halewood Operations, Liverpool in 2011. Ralf Speth, CEO, Jaguar Land Rover, commented, “The Range Rover Evoque is a significant step in [...]

Nandini Sen Gupta, The Economic Times, 30th August, 2010 NEW DELHI: Tata Motors Limited is looking to seek help from British subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover’s engineers to build more refined passenger cars. According to a top Tata Motors official, the mother company will use expertise in design, noise and vibration and other aspects to build [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 19th August, 2010 MUMBAI (Bloomberg) – Tata Motors Limited, the owner of Jaguar and Land Rover, has hired Credit Suisse Group AG and Citigroup Inc. to raise as much as $1 billion from selling securities, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The carmaker may tap capital markets in the next [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 10th August, 2010 MUMBAI (Bloomberg) – Shares in Tata Motors Limited, the Indian owner of Jaguar Land Rover, rose to their highest level in more than 19 years after the company posted a first-quarter profit on demand for luxury SUVs and sedans. The carmaker made a net income of 19.9 billion rupees [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 5th August, 2010 MUMBAI (Bloomberg) – Tata Sons Limited is searching for a successor to Chairman Ratan Tata, whose acquisitions of Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Group Plc charted India’s emergence as a global economic power. The 72-year-old Ratan, who built Tata Group into India’s biggest with revenue of more than $70 billion, [...]

Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 30th July, 2010 Dozens of Jaguar workers are enjoying a six-week summer holiday – because the luxury car maker has been too successful. The Big Cat has turned its sales performance round so dramatically in the first half of 2010 that some parts suppliers to the XF and XJ models are [...]

Automotive News China, 9th July, 2010 SHANGHAI — Jaguar Land Rover has received formal approval from the Chinese Government to set up a wholly-owned nationwide distributorship, reported China Daily.  Currently, authorized Chinese distributors import the vehicles and distribute them to dealers. Now Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors Ltd., will centralize [...]

Chas Hallett, Editor, Autocar, 8th July, 2010 Land Rover has “tremendous growth potential” Tata Motors’ boss Carl-Peter Forster told the SMMT’s Annual Conference in London last week. Forster said the company needs to fill more market sectors and could possibly start building cars outside of the UK. He added that Tata Motors, Jaguar Land Rover’s [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 29th June, 2010 MUMBAI (Bloomberg) — Tata Motors Limited, the Indian owner of Jaguar and Land Rover, plans to raise as much as 47 billion rupees ($1 billion) to expand operations and pare debt accumulated for the purchase of the luxury brands. “The timing and structure of the issues will be decided [...]

Nikhil Gulati, Dow Jones Newswires, 23rd June, 2010 Tata Motors Limited said Wednesday its Board will meet June 28 to consider options for raising long-term funds, which analysts expect will likely help reduce the company’s debt and provide capital for its expansion plans. In its statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange, the automaker didn’t elaborate [...]

David Bailey, Birmingham Post, 28th May, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover announced today that it will indeed begin assembling cars in China. JLR CEO Carl-Peter Foster said today that “we will need to manufacture at least two models in China… We’ll take one to two years to set it up, but first we will need a [...]

Steve Cropley, Editor-in-Chief, Autocar, 28th May, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover’s new boss, Carl-Peter Forster, has emerged from 100 days of silence to reveal plans for a major product shake-up. The radical vision includes greater separation for the Land Rover and Range Rover brands, the launch of an all-new, mid-size Range Rover between LRX and Range Rover [...]

Jorn Madslien, Business Reporter, BBC News, 28th May, 2010 Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is going to start assembling vehicles in China, the BBC can confirm. “We will need to manufacture at least two models in China,” said Chief Executive Carl-Peter Forster in an interview. “We’ll take one to two years to set it up, but [...]

Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 6th May, 2010 Land Rover is creating 275 new jobs at its plant in Solihull following a surge in demand which saw the firm record the highest ever sales figures in its 62-year history in March. The announcement of the extra agency positions confirms the turnaround for Land Rover over the [...]

Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 4th March, 2010 Midland car marques Jaguar and Land Rover had opposing fortunes last month as new car sales continued to accelerate ahead. Sales of Land Rover were up by more than 60 per cent in February, on the back of new models being released, while Jaguar saw sales fall by [...]