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Archive : Car jobs safe at Rover
DAILY EXPRESS By David Benson Job security and a new range of cars from the Rover Group were predicted by chairman Graham Day last night following the £150 million sale […]
Month: March 1988
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Archive : Britain to Sell Rover Group
NEW YORK TIMES The British Government announced today that it was selling the Rover Group P.L.C., the ailing car maker, to British Aerospace P.L.C. for £150 million, or about $279 […]
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Archive : Strike Voted at Jaguar
NEW YORK TIMES Reuters Workers at Jaguar P.L.C.’s Coventry plant in central England have voted to go on strike over plans to increase production, a union spokesman said today. Members […]
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Archive : Pound forces Jaguar into the slow lane
DAILY EXPRESS By Philip Robinson Jaguar is no longer purring along an open road , powered by the twin engines of a weak pound and a strong American economy . […]
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Archive : Bid for Rover Proceeding
Reuters Price appears to be the only thing standing in the way of British Aerospace P.L.C.’s surprise bid to take over Britain’s state-owned car manufacturer, Rover. After meetings on Friday […]
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Archive : Rover cuts losses to £26m
THE GUARDIAN By Lisa Martineau in Tokyo and Andrew Cornelius Rover, the state-owned vehicles group which the Government is negotiating to sell to British Aerospace, announced yesterday its best trading […]
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Archive : Offer for Weak Rover: What’s the Allure?
By STEVE LOHR, Special to the New York Times As acquisition candidates go, the Rover Group P.L.C., Britain’s largest auto maker, is hardly a prize. Indeed, most analysts see British […]
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Archive : Britain to Sell Its Rover Stake
Reuters British Aerospace P.L.C., the country’s biggest aircraft manufacturer, will make an exclusive bid for the state-owned car maker Rover Group P.L.C. in an effort to prevent a foreign takeover, […]