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...Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen and Aston Martin are just a few of the automotive companies using the technology to quickly produce prototype parts, saving millions of pounds in their product development...
...Ksenia Zheltoukhova, CIPD research associate, said organisations would have to widen the pools they recruit from....
...Companies that have been late to launch local manufacturing in China – including Renault, Jaguar Land Rover, and Volvo – outlined plans to do so soon....
...Nick Buckles rocks a hairstyle of a kind most famously sported by Roy of the Rovers....
...Premium carmakers including Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover and Bentley also say they have no plans to cut production as they continue to report record global sales....
...The worst performer was Land Rover, followed by Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, Mini and Jaguar....
...India’s Tata Motors has secured private funding for its Jaguar Land Rover marques, ending state aid talks with the UK government....
...But, just as things were looking desperate, India Inc stepped into the breach....
...Jaguar and Buick nudged Toyota’s Lexus luxury marque out of the top spot it held last year in JD Power and Associates’ 2009 Vehicle Dependability Study....
...SAIC also makes MG own-brand cars after acquiring brands and technology from MG Rover....
...The European Investment Bank is on Tuesday expected to approve loans worth some €500m ($670m, £455m) for Jaguar/Land Rover and Nissan’s UK operations....
...The Bank of England’s rate cut on Thursday was welcomed by carmakers such as Jaguar/Land Rover, which has cut production this year as sales slowed....
...Registrations of Aston Martin cars dropped nearly 73 per cent, Land Rover’s declined 64 per cent, Lotus was down 73 per cent and Mini fell 58 per cent....
...At the top end of the industry, manufacturers of sport and luxury cars such as Porsche and Land Rover are also feeling the brunt of constrained consumer budgets and changing tastes....
...Aston Martin, Bentley, Land Rover and Porsche all reported double-digit drops in their registration figures in July and the year to date....
...Toyota, Honda, Ford’s Volvo brand, and Jaguar/ Land Rover are all reducing production in Europe....
...“I’ve had half my team down at Canary Wharf meeting with candidate after candidate,” says Alexandra Andreae-Jones, associate director of Finance Professionals, a speciality firm....
...SAIC recruited former Rover engineers to work with Chinese engineers to design the car, partly in the UK and partly in China....
...India’s Mahindra & Mahindra also bid for Jaguar and Land Rover with buy-out group Apollo Management, although it was more interested in Land Rover, whose vehicle line-up meshes more closely with its own...
...Selling Jaguar and Land Rover now might be handing over to a buyer the fruits of Ford’s hard work. Shareholders should still welcome it....
...so a merger would offer considerable synergies of the former Rover assets....
...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....
...“What we’re seeing in western Europe is a market that is pretty flat,” says Pete Kelly of JD Power and Associates Automotive Forecasting....
...car will make its public debut at the Frankfurt International Motor Show on September 11 and its reception will be watched closely by private equity and carmaking groups now weighing bids for it and Land Rover...
...own product launches based on Rover and MG models....
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