Tag Archives: Ellesmere Port

Vauxhall reduced sales forces factories furlough

September 04, 2012   Ian

A lack of demand for new cars as the “Eurocrisis” deepens has led Vauxhall to shut down both, Ellesmere Port and Luton, UK factories for a week.

The paid “down week” will start on September 24 and comes just weeks after Ellesmere Port celebrated winning the new contract for the next Vauxhall Astra.

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GM saves Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant

May 18, 2012   Ian

General Motors has confirmed today that Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant has been saved, securing the jobs of 2,100 staff. As we reported yesterday, production of the new Astra will happen at Ellesmere Port, with GM’s two German factories, Bochum and Russelsheim, being the casualties of the move; Bochum is likely to close.
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Vauxhall’s UK factory to survive?

May 17, 2012   Ian

The official announcement is expected any day now, but the odds of Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant surviving appear to have improved. Rumours from Germany suggest that General Motors’ current plan is to concentrate Astra production in Poland and the UK, while stopping the Astra production lines in two German factories, Bochum and Russelsheim.  If true, Bochum would then close and Russelsheim would concentrate on the Insignia, and weirdly, could make Citroens
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Jaguar Land Rover creates 300 jobs with £1bn investment

May 12, 2012   Ian

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced that it will spend an extra £1bn with UK suppliers over the next four years, a direct result of the popularity of the new Range Rover Evoque. The investment is on top of the £2bn worth of supply contracts it has already awarded to over 40 UK parts suppliers, which it announced a year ago.
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Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port tries to dodge the bullet

May 04, 2012   Ian
According to a report in Autocar, management and unions are coming up with ideas to make Ellesmere Port more competitive. Unions are said to be prepared to offer more flexible working practices and complex shift patterns to make the plant lower-cost. However, it is hard to believe there is a lot of slack in the system now. Ellesmere Port is already probably the most productive plant General Motors has in Western Europe, so its scope to pull further ahead of other Vauxhall/Opel factories may be limited.
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