Jaguar beefing up UK factory staff for new SUV

14 January 2015

Jaguar Land Rover is planning to hire an additional 1,300 employees to help manufacture its first sports utility vehicle, called Jaguar F-PACE, at its Solihull factory in the West Midlands. The company has already invested GBP 1.5bn into the factory to support the new line. The SUV is scheduled to hit the market in 2016.

“We spend about GPB 3.5bn on our product investment each year and one thing that we really focus on is making sure that our future cars are both economic in terms of fuel economy, in terms of CO2,” the company’s UK executive director, Mike Wright, told the BBC. “This car’s going to be built at one of the world’s biggest aluminium body shops at Solihull that we’ve invested a huge amount of money in over the last couple of years. So gas guzzling? No.”

The Solihull factory is currently staffed with 9,450 employees. Jaguar has a total of 30,500 employees in the UK. The company said it sold 462,678 vehicles on the global market last year, a 9-percent increase y-o-y.

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