Jaguar Land Rover said on Wednesday that it had secured a £175m loan from the State Bank of India and had lined up a total of £500m of new financing facilities so far this year.
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(David Smith, chief executive, said JLR planned to source more than one-third of its vehicle parts from low-cost countries including India, compared with about one-fifth now.)

Caso alguém acha consolação, mesmo fabricando num país de baixos custos de mão dobra, pelo menos a Tata parece uma firma extraordinariamente social:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=4943413&page=3
For an Indian company, Tata has unusually big obligations to its workers. In the more than 50 years Tata Motors has made vehicles, it has built a strong social safety net for workers with pensions, jobs for life***and a job for one of their children. ***
Autoeuropa não chega lá....

RHS

Carmaker JLR secures loan of £170m
November 16, 12:45am
Jaguar Land Rover will announce on Monday that it has secured a new £170m working capital facility from GE Capital, allowing it to start making money from its finished vehicles long before they reach dealers' showrooms around the world.
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Pelo facto que conseguem emprestar tanto dinheiro só se pode concluir que eles - e os bancos respectivos - são optimistos quanto às vendas futuras.

Robert

À medida que se vai recuperando da crise, é normal começar-se a ver alguma luz ao fundo do túnel...

Esperemos que a Jaguar fique mais "tranquila" num futuro próximo

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/11/28/stories/2009112851800100.htm

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... The Jaguar- Land Rover sales increased 23 per cent to 44,300 units in July- September quarter against 35,900 units for the previous quarter.

"Lot of restructuring is happening. The impact of these restructuring measures is still to kick in," said Mr Ravi Kant, Vice-Chairman, Tata Motors. "We have created national sales organisations in all the countries where we sell Jaguar Land Rover. And all the new models are high margin products." During the last quarter, the company secured a $175-million loan from SBI.
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Robert

Boas notícias... vamos ver se os novos modelos saem bem

Parece que Jaguar vai mesmo voltar a ter alma própria, como antes da era Ford.

Do
http://ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/
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There seemed to be a constructive synergy between him (Ratan Tata, CEO) and JLR management at the show, with both talking about what Tata called the once iconic models “making their own destinies…..rekindling their roots”. Tata also seemed willing to ride out losses because “in this part of the world you buy (a company) to live with it and develop it into something”. JLR had been bought not just as a short-term ploy, nor just “to add to turnover or egos”, but also for its potential and what could be gained in terms of “enormous skill and capabilities”.
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Robert