Wednesday, March 10, 2010

New Jaguar XJ safeguards Midlands jobs

About 2,000 manufacturing jobs in the West Midlands have been safeguarded by production of the new Jaguar XJ, a car industry advisory group has said.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said the model was vital to helping it survive the recession and had also helped the region's car components industry.
It has employed 400 staff for the XJ production, which is being assembled at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham.
Car industry body Accelerate said every JLR job supported five others locally.