Type
Reshoring
Country
United Kingdom
Reshoring from
India
Reshored business function
Production
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Solihull
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture For Transport Equipment
Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers
29 - Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers

1,300 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
12 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
1 January 2015

Description

Tata Motor is part of the largerĀ Tata group, an Indian company that sells products for mor than 100 billions dollars per year. The company bought Jaguar and Land Rover producing cars under those brands in UKĀ and India. However, during last year it has been demonstrated the willingness to mantain British site production investing there. Investments in British sites have allowed the company to start the production of a new car each 20 seconds.


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2015), Jaguar Land Rover, Reshoring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 147, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/147.