Tag Archives: Jaguar Land Rover

China to be No. 1 market for Jaguar Land Rover

April 27, 2012   Ian

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said that China will soon overtake the UK as its leading market.Sales in China rose to 42,000 – that is almost as many as it sold in China in every previous year put together. In fact JLR now accounts for 20% of all UK exports to China. Depending on how you look at it, that is either a fantastic tribute to JLR management, or a bit of an indictment of UK PLC. What are other big British-based companies doing about the world’s fastest growing market?
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Jaguar Land Rover to manufacture in China

March 22, 2012   Sean

Jaguar Land Rover JLR has officially confirmed it is planning to set up a joint venture to manufacture in China.It will work with Chery, one of China’s largest car manufacturers to establish manufacturing operations. The move had been widely expected: JLR’s Chinese sales have boomed from under 3,000 a year in 2005 to 42,000 a year by 2011.
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Jaguar Land Rover: Needs Engineers

March 15, 2012   Colin

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is trying to persuade more young people to study engineering.  A survey for the company has found that only 20% of 13-16 year olds are considering engineering as a career choice. Interestingly the proportion is 33% in the North East, but only 14% in the South East – do clever London kids expect to go into the City, we wonder? Another worrying statistic is that just 8% of girls would consider engineering as a career, compared to 29% of boys.
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