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Month: January 1994

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Archive : BMW and Rover

29 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

ROVER/BMW  George Simpson and Bernd Pischetsrieder fly to Birmingham to Rover’s HQ and then on to British Aerospaces HQ at Farnborough.

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Archive : BMW and Rover

28 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

ROVER Chairman George Simpson arrives back at Heathrow at 4pm and meets British Aerospace chairman Dick Evans and Finance Director Richard Lapthorne. The trio then fly to Munich and dine […]

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Archive : Rover’s recovery

27 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

Rover’s 9 per cent increase in sales last year was a sterling performance in the face of a European car market accelerating hard in reverse. Indeed, the percentage rise looks […]

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Archive : Sales surge explains recovery at Rover

27 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

THE INDEPENDENT MICHAEL HARRISON, Industrial Editor Thursday, 27 January 1994 BRITAIN’S biggest car maker, the Rover Group, yesterday demonstrated the extent of its recovery by announcing a 9 per cent […]

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27 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

ROVER Chairman George Simpson flies to Tokyo in an effort to persuade Honda to take a larger stake in the Rover Group. Chairman Nobuhiko Kawamoto is unavailable so Simpson deals […]

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26 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

BMW BMW offer British Aerospace £800m. plus another £20m. if Honda stayed on board.

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Archive : Rover overtakes Euro rivals

25 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

DAILY EXPRESS ROVER OVERTAKES EURO RIVALS By David Benson Rover Group was the only volume car maker in Europe to increase sales last year and the company moved ahead of […]

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25 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

BMW Dr Hagen Luderitz, BMW’s Director of Corporate Planning, offers British Aerospace £800m. for the entire Rover Group.

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20 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

BMW BMW notify British Aerospace of their intentions and are told £700m. is not enough.

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Archive : BMW and Rover

19 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

BMW The BMW board met and decided to offer British Aerospace £700m. for the Rover Group.

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Archive : BMW and Rover

16 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

ROVER Rover Manufacturing Director Alan Curtis and a collegue fly in great secrecy to Munich to provide the information it needed in order to table a bid for the Rover […]

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Archive : Jaguar profits up

8 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY NEWS; JAGUAR REPORTS 46.7% INCREASE IN U.S. CAR SALES Published: Saturday, January 8, 1994 Jaguar Cars Inc. said yesterday that sales in the United States rose […]

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Archive : Rover staff turn down production line jobs

5 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

THE INDEPENDENT BARRIE CLEMENT, Labour Editor Wednesday, 5 January 1994 THE ROVER car group will be forced to take on more than 500 workers this spring after white- collar staff […]

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Archive : Hard road back from despair

2 January 1994 Keith Adams 0

THE INDEPENDENT Hard road back from despair: Last February the workers at Leyland Trucks appeared to be headed for the scrap heap. In June they raised a toast to the […]

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