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...Jaguar Land Rover confirmed its own plans to cut 4,500 jobs....
...Premium-car manufacturers such as Volkswagen unit Audi, BMW, Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover all operate joint venture factories in China with local partners....
...Mark White, chief technical specialist at carmaker Jaguar Land Rover, says: “The development of a high-tech infrastructure in the UK to recycle material would be very welcome.”...
...Ratan Tata, chairman of the Indian holding group whose automotive business owns Jaguar Land Rover, has spoken of setting up joint engine production for its mass-market Indian operations and the two UK premium...
...It has already brought in Matthew Taylor and David Smith, former Ford executives who were most recently the chief executives of JCB and Jaguar Land Rover ....
...The 91-year-old Crawley-based company, one of the biggest employers in the region, brought in Matthew Taylor and David Smith, the former bosses of JCB and Jaguar Land Rover, in June to prepare for a sale...
...David Blackhall, managing director of Jaguar Land Rover Australia, who worked with Mr Nasser 35 years ago, says the young man was street smart....
...They also worked together on an abortive bid for Jaguar and Land Rover, when the UK-based carmakers were sold by Ford last year....
...Comment, analysis and other offerings from Friday’s FT, Comment: Keynes’ magic can work for the sunrise industries David Smith, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, writes: For those of us who were at Cambridge during...
...The writer is chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover...
...Tata’s bid secured the union’s support last year largely thanks to supporting the five-year business plan already in place at Jaguar and Land Rover....
...The three groups vying to buy Jaguar and Land Rover expect to hear from Ford Motor with its choice of a preferred bidder for the two carmakers by the end of this week....
...The bidders are in the process of being shown round the Jaguar and Land Rover factories....
...Terra Firma is among the potential bidders for Jaguar and Land Rover, it emerged Thursday....
...Land Rover is profitable and selling record numbers of its vehicles this year, and even Jaguar is losing less money than projected....
...First it was EMI, now it’s Jaguar and Land Rover… UK buy-out group Terra Firma is among the potential bidders for Jaguar and Land Rover, reports the FT on Thursday.The buy-out group, headed by City financier...
...The US group also wants any buyer to find a partner to create a financial services arm for Jaguar and Land Rover, which rely on Ford’s in-house financing arm....
...A second former head of Ford Motor has entered the bidding for Jaguar and Land Rover, the US carmaker’s two UK premium marques....
...The Land Rover and Jaguar sale is expected to involve a complicated trade-off between price – which could come in anywhere between $1bn and $2bn – and terms....
...and Land Rover, its UK luxury marques....
...Ford, in reporting its second-quarter earnings last month, said Jaguar and Land Rover together were profitable in the first half of this year....
...There may be little choice in the matter for any suitor if Ford bundles Jaguar and Land Rover together....
...However, Ford plans to bundle the sale of Land Rover and Jaguar together, leaving out the option of buying only Land Rover, people close to the situation report....
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