CRISIS-hit Jaguar Land Rover looks set for a £270 million cash bonanza following months of agonising waiting for 13,000 West Midlands workers and their families.Read
FORMER Jaguar chairman and Treasury Minister Geoffrey Robinson has urged the Government to “get cracking” over promises to help British industry, as Birmingham business leaders warned firms were closing every day.Read
Exactly one month ago leading figures from industry, politics and academia joined together at a unique Auto Industry Summit in Birmingham to draw up a strategy that would save the region’s car making industry during these unprecedented times. Read
BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson today urged Jaguar Land Rover to seek aid from a newly-approved £2.3 billion loan package and said: “We are moving as fast as we can.”Read
About 12,000 workers at Jaguar Land Rover are set to vote on whether to accept a one-year pay freeze and a four-day week in return for no compulsory job losses for two years.Read
ABOUT 12,000 workers at Jaguar Land Rover are set to vote on whether to accept a one-year pay freeze and a four-day week in return for no compulsory job losses for two years.Read
JAGUAR Land Rover faces an increasingly frustrating waiting game as the Government pledge to help automotive firms tackle the worst recession for decades becomes mired in bureaucracy.Read
UNIONS at crisis-hit Jaguar Land Rover have staved off the threat of compulsory job losses for two years after reaching a crucial framework agreement for a new round of cost-cutting.Read
THE agony continued today for 16,000 Jaguar Land Rover workers after the Government refused to give any indication of when loans would be made available.Read
CARMAKERS may have to adapt to a long-term fall in demand for luxury vehicles, a senior Conservative has warned following a visit to Jaguar Land Rover’s facilities in Coventry.Read
TENS of thousands of car workers’ jobs will be lost unless the Government comes up with an “immediate” cash injection, the UK’s most powerful union official warned today.Read
BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson was today in crucial talks with the car sector over the Government’s £2.3 billion package of support – with bosses at Jaguar Land Rover still pressing for an emergency £1 billion loan.Read
BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson is to announce a package of measures to help Britain's struggling car industry, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman said.Read
DOWNING Street insisted Gordon Brown would not let Britain’s automotive industry die, as carmakers prepared for a summit with Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.Read
THE new XJ flagship saloon car, due to be unveiled by Jaguar later this year, will leave rivals “with all the appeal of yesterday’s cold potatoes”, one of the company’s top executives has claimed.Read
LEADING figures from business, politics and the unions will attend a summit in Birmingham to pile pressure on the government to step in and help the ailing car industry.Read
ANOTHER Jaguar Land Rover supplier has announced it will be cutting jobs in the Midlands, as an car industry insider warned the supply chain as a whole could be under risk.Read
