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| Vintagepaul Member Since: 20 Jan 2015 Location: Rye, East Sussex Posts: 481  
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I see on the Car magazine website that JLR have chosen Slovakia as their new overseas production facility. Could this be where they are going to continue Defender production once manufacturing in the UK ceases?
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/indu...from-2018/ |
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11th Aug 2015 3:40pm |
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| tatra805 Member Since: 16 Aug 2011 Location: Dolany Posts: 436  
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local media here mention the local experience with aluminium chassis and bodywork (VW) to be the deciding factor over Poland which offered bigger other "benefits" (money)
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11th Aug 2015 4:10pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018  
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Slovakia is/has been making a big play for premium vehicle manufacturing.
Volkswagen assembles a scope of models there including its Touareg and Audi Q7 autos at its Bratislava plant, South Korea’s Kia delivered more than 300,000 vehicles in the last year while PSA Peugeot Citroen’s Slovak unit made more than 255,000 vehicles. Jaguar Land Rover has 50 ‘product actions’, including new models, facelifts and minor tweaks, planned over the next five years so it's spoilt for choice in deciding what will go into Slovakia. "Poland has claimed that Slovakia offered high state subsidies to win the factory, which it was not prepared to match." but probably the real issue: "The average hourly labour cost in Slovakia is below €10 (£7), less than half that of Britain, according to Eurostat figures. The plant could help reduce JLR’s reliance on Britain, where it had to offer an improved pay and pensions deal last year to avoid strike action." http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/a...itish-jobs and the fact that it is part of the Euro Zone helps cover off any issues associated with foreign exchange and UK in/out referendum. Nice article here listing all the other reasons this plant makes sense: http://www.autonews.com/article/20150817/O...troit-east |
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14th Aug 2015 9:23am |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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Hope JLR haven't jumped on the bandwagon too late:
"While double-digit unemployment is devastating lives and rumbling politics in Spain and Greece, business owners in the European Union’s developing east are having a different problem. Czech entrepreneur Zbynek Frolik is one of them. Demand for his state-of-the-art hospital beds is so high that he needs a new factory. Yet with the rest of his country’s economy also booming, he can’t find the workers he needs. “There’s simply a huge shortage of labor,” said Frolik, who has built his company, Linet, into a global leader with annual turnover of $240 million. “At this point, I just want any able-bodied person who wants to work.’’ The scenario is playing out across the region stretching from the Baltics to the Balkans, where cheap labor and untapped markets lured tens of billions of euros in investment after the fall of the Iron Curtain. That fueled booming growth and lifted living standards, especially since the European Union’s big-bang expansion into the region in 2004. Now falling unemployment and the exodus of millions of workers looking for higher wages are exposing the limits of the low-cost growth model. In Slovakia, the world’s biggest auto producer per capita, companies are struggling to find specialists in the industry even as Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc prepares to build the country’s fourth car plant.  Click image to enlarge http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/201...stern-boom |
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