JLR seeks to hire more engineers

Finanical Times
May 7, 2011

Jaguar Land Rover wants to recruit 1,000 engineers in the next two years to its UK operations as part of a £5bn ($8.2bn) plan to boost its position in the luxury end of the car business.

Assuming it can attract the people it wants, JLR will increase its team of 4,000 engineers by about 25 per cent.

Ralf Speth, JLR’s chief executive, said that if he could do it, he would “hire these engineers tomorrow” to increase the skills of the company part of India’s Tata industrial group.

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Jaguar Land Rover is investing £5bn ($8.2bn) over the next five years to catch up on quality with BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi – the three German companies that dominate the luxury end of the automotive business globally.

The money will be spent mainly on product development and new equipment at JLR’s three UK plants, which together employ just over 17,000 people, with some of it likely to cover new investments at a planned factory in China.

The spending is seen as a sign of commitment to the UK by JLR’s Indian parent group, Tata. Ratan Tata, chairman, authorised the $2.3bn purchase of JLR three years ago from Ford, only to see his plans blown off course by the global recession.
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"We are still in talks with executives from Tata Motors and Jaguar Land Rover on an exact date" for opening the plant, the spokesman, who declined to be named, told Dow Jones Newswires late Monday. "But, end of May would seem realistic enough."
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