Land Rover is hiring about 1,000 workers for its Halewood plant in the UK to speed up the production of the Range Rover Evoque. The workforce at the plant will be tripled to 4,500 compared to jobs this factory generated three years back. Halewood is the only manufacturing facility that produces the Evoque.
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The plant will now work 24 hours straight operating three shifts which is an impressive turnaround considering the kind of questions asked by industry experts on the survival of the Land Rover brand with the increasing fuel prices and tightening emission norms, just a few years ago.
Tata is miffed with the U.K government over the treatment extended to them in the Vista EV deal, which is still brewing. The U.K government has clearly ruffled their feathers and Tata, it seems, is contemplating the idea of manufacturing the fuel-efficient Land Rover LRX in India.
Tata is yet to take the £27 million that the Government lends to them as a loan; in exchange, Tata would produce the eco-friendly LRX in its existing facility.
Nothing has been confirmed on the switch, only in September will the company take a stand – whether to build it at the Halewood factory in Merseyside or in one of its plant here in India.
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Land Rover is hiring about 1,000 workers for its Halewood plant in the UK to speed up the production of the Range Rover Evoque. The workforce at the plant will be tripled to 4,500 compared to jobs this factory generated three years back. Halewood is the only manufacturing facility that produces the Evoque.
