Month: January 1994

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]