Jaguar Land Rover
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| Company type | Public limited company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | , United Kingdom[1] |
Key people | Ratan Tata (Chairman) Dr Ralf Speth (CEO) |
| Products | Automobiles |
| Revenue | £13.512 billion (2012)[2] |
 £2.027 billion (2012)[2] | |
| £1.481 billion (2012)[2] | |
Number of employees | 25,000 (2012)[3] |
| Parent | Tata Motors |
| Subsidiaries | Jaguar Cars Land Rover Chery Jaguar Land Rover (50%) |
| Website | www |
Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC is a British multinational automotive company headquartered in Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Indian Tata Motors group, itself a subsidiary of the Tata Group.[4] Its principal activity is the development, manufacture and sale of vehicles bearing Jaguar and Land Rover, including Range Rover, marques.[citation needed]
History
The Jaguar Cars and Land Rover businesses were first united under a single entity by Ford Motor Company in 2002.[5] Ford had acquired Jaguar Cars in 1989 and Land Rover from BMW in 2000.[6][7]
In 2006 Ford purchased the Rover brand name and logos from BMW for around £6 million. This reunited the Rover and Land Rover brands for the first time since the Rover group was broken up by BMW in 2000.
In 2008, the Jaguar Land Rover company was established when Tata Motors acquired the Jaguar and Land Rover businesses from Ford.[8] This once again brought Jaguar into the same stable as Rover/Land Rover more than two decades after it was spun out from the former British Leyland in 1984.
With the purchase of Land Rover, Tata also acquired the Rover brand. With no current Rover models in production the Rover brand is dormant
In March 2011, Jaguar Land Rover announced that it would be hiring an additional 1,500 staff at its Halewood plant, and signed over £2 billion of supply contracts with UK-based companies, to enable production of its new Range Rover Evoque model.[9][10] In September 2011, the company confirmed that it would be investing £355 million in the construction of a new engine plant at the i54 business park near Wolverhampton, central England, to manufacture a family of four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines.[11][12] In November 2011 Jaguar Land Rover announced that it would be creating 1,000 new jobs at its Solihull plant, a 25 per cent increase in the size of the workforce at the site.[13][14]
In March 2012, Jaguar Land Rover announced the creation of 1,000 new jobs at its Halewood plant, and a shift to 24-hour production at the plant.[15][16] In the same month, Jaguar Land Rover and the China-based carmaker Chery agreed to invest an initial US$2.78 billion in a new joint venture the activities of which will include the manufacture of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles and engines, the establishment of a research and development facility, the creation of a new automobile marque, and sales of vehicles produced by the company.[17][18] Jaguar Land Rover plans to create 4,500 manufacturing and engineering jobs in the UK over the next five years.[19]
Corporate affairs
Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC is a public limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (Company No. 06477691). The immediate parent undertaking of Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC is TML Singapore Pte Limited and the ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party is Tata Motors Limited of India.[20] The founder of Tata Motors, Ratan Tata, was chairman and director from 2008 to December 2012.
Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC's principal subsidiaries are:
- Jaguar Land Rover Limited (since December 2012, the formal name of Jaguar Cars and the owner of the dormant marques Daimler and Lanchester)
- Land Rover
- Tata Technologies Europe Limited
Board of directors
| Name[20] | Position[20] | Year appointed[20] |
|---|---|---|
| Ravi Kant | Director | 2008 |
| Andrew M. Robb | Director | 2009 |
| Dr. Ralf D. Speth | Chief Executive Officer and Director | 2010 |
| Carl-Peter Forster | Director | 2010 |
Financial data
| Year ending | Turnover (£m) | EBITDA (£m) | Net income / (loss) before tax (£m) | Net income / (loss) attributable
to shareholders (£m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2012[2] | 13,512 | 2,027 | 1,507 | 1,481 |
| 31 March 2011[20] | 9,870.7 | 1,501.7 | 1,114.9 | 1,035.9 |
| 31 March 2010[20] | 6,527.2 | 349.1 | 51.4 | 23.5 |
| 31 March 2009[20] | 4,949.5 | (83.9) | (375.7) | (402.4) |
Operations
Jaguar Land Rover operates six facilities for R&D, manufacturing and assembling :
- Gaydon (formerly RAF Gaydon, BL Technology, Rover Group and then the Land Rover engineering site)
- Whitley (formerly the Chrysler UK engineering site, then the Jaguar Cars engineering site)
- Solihull (formerly Rover Cars and then Land Rover production site)
- Castle Bromwich (formerly British Leyland and then Jaguar Cars production site)
- Halewood (formerly Ford of Britain production site, then Jaguar and now a Land Rover production site)
- Pune, Maharastra in India (Land Rover Freelander and Jaguar XF assembly site, CKD operations)
Products
Jaguar Land Rover currently sells vehicles under the Jaguar and Land Rover marques. It also owns the rights to the currently dormant Daimler, Lanchester and Rover marques. The latter was acquired by Land Rover, whilst still under Ford ownership, from BMW in the aftermath of the collapse of MG Rover Group, BMW having retained ownership of the marque when it broke up Rover Group in 2000, licensing it to MG Rover as a condition of the sale of Land Rover to Ford.
- Current Jaguar products
- Jaguar XF – executive car
- Jaguar F-Type – sports car, due to commence production in 2013
- Jaguar XK – grand tourer
- Jaguar XJ – luxury car
- Current Land Rover products
- Land Rover Defender – off-road vehicle
- Land Rover Freelander – compact SUV
- Land Rover Discovery – mid-size SUV
- Range Rover Evoque – compact SUV
- Range Rover Sport – mid-size SUV
- Range Rover – full-size SUV
Sales
In the year ended 31 March 2011, Jaguar Land Rover sold a total of 240,905 units, of which 189,087 were Land Rovers and 51,818 were Jaguars.[2] In that period 24.1% of sales were in the United Kingdom, 22% in Europe (excluding the United Kingdom and Russia), 20.9% in North America, 12% in China, 4.9% in Russia and 15.9% in the rest of the world.[2]
In the year ended 31 March 2012, Jaguar Land Rover sold a total of 305,859 units, of which 251,632 were Land Rovers and 54,227 were Jaguars.[2] In that period 22% of sales were in Europe (excluding the United Kingdom and Russia), 19.6% in the United Kingdom, 19.0% in North America, 16.7% in China, 4.2% in Asia Pacific (excluding China) and 19.0% in the rest of the world.[2]
References
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover Opens its new Global Headquarters Building". Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Jaguar Land Rover Results Under IFRS for the period ended 31 March 2012" (PDF). Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover Appoints New HR Director UK". JaguarLandRover. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- ^ Mike Rutherford (2008-03-29). "Mike Rutherford ponders Tata's takeover of Land Rover and Jaguar". The Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
- ^ "Superboss Dover takes over at Jaguar". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 2001-11-09. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
- ^ "The Years 1989 to 1986". Jaguar Cars Ltd. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
- ^ "BMW, Ford seal Land Rover deal". BBC. 2000-05-24. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover". Tata Sons. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
- ^ "Jaguar plans UK expansion set to create 1,000 jobs". The Telegraph. 23 April 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Jaguar announces £2bn supply contracts for Evoque model". BBC News. 2 March 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Tata's Jaguar Land Rover picks UK for new plant". Reuters. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover confirms new UK plant". The Telegraph. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover to create 1,000 jobs at Solihull factory". The Telegraph. 10 November 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover creates more than 1,000 Solihull jobs". BBC. 10 November 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover creates 1,000 new jobs". The Independent. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ^ "Land Rover to create 1,000 jobs at Halewood". BBC. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover seals JV with China's Chery". Reuters. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ^ "Jaguar Land Rover and Chery Automobile agree deal to sell vehicles in China". The Guardian. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ^ "JaguarLR to generate 4,500 jobs in UK". Indian Express. 29 June 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g "2010/11 Annual Report" (PDF). Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. p. 31. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
