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Informist, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

 

--JLR to restart electric propulsion mfg centre in West Midlands on Wed 

--JLR: Colleagues to return to co's stamping operations from Wednesday 

--JLR: To update on phased restart of co's Halewood plant at Merseyside 

--JLR: Working on scheme to provide up-front cash to some of co's suppliers 

 

NEW DELHI – Tata Motors Ltd.-owned luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover Tuesday said it will initiate a phased restart of its operations in the UK and Slovakia after a cyberattack last month impacted the company's manufacturing activities for almost the entire month. The company will fast-track a new financing scheme for its suppliers with cash upfront during the production restart phase, it said. The company also has vehicle plants in India, Brazil, and through a joint venture in China. 

 

Initially, the company will restart operations at its electric propulsion manufacturing centre and battery assembly centre in the West Midlands Wednesday onwards. Its employees will resume stamping operations at its plants in the UK, which also feed parts to its global manufacturing sites. "This activity will be closely followed by vehicle manufacturing in Nitra, Slovakia, and restart of the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport (MLA) production lines in the Solihull facility this week," the company said.

 

JLR will next restart operations at its Halewood plant in Merseyside in a phased manner. "From tomorrow (Wednesday), we will welcome back our colleagues at our engine production plant in Wolverhampton, shortly followed by our colleagues making our worldclass cars at Nitra and Solihull," JLR's Chief Executive Officer Adrian Mardell said. "Our suppliers are central to our success and today we are launching a new financing arrangement that will enable us to pay our suppliers early, using the strength of our balance sheet to support their cashflows," he added.

 

Jaguar Land Rover saw registrations of its cars falling around 41% on year in September as the company grappled with a major cyberattack last month, which had forced it to shut down factories temporarily, data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders showed Monday. 

 

Registrations of its Land Rover cars fell to 6,419 units in September, down 29% from 8,993 units a year ago. The brand also saw its market share dropping to just over 2% from 3.3% last September. Registrations of its Jaguar cars fell to zero in September, compared with 1,814 in the same month last year. This brand fully lost the 0.7% market share it held in September last year.

 

For the June quarter, the parent company Tata Motors had reported a consolidated net profit of INR 39.24 billion on a revenue of INR 1.04 trillion. At 1346 IST, shares of Tata Motors traded 1.6% lower on the National Stock Exchange at INR 701.  End

 

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Reported by Anand JC

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

 

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