MUMBAI, India – Jaguar Land Rover will spend an additional 1 billion British pounds ($1.6 billion) with U.K. suppliers over the next four years to meet strong demand for the Range Rover Evoque.
That comes on top of 2 billion pounds worth of contracts awarded in March 2011 to over 40 U.K. suppliers for the Range Rover Evoque factory at Halewood on Merseyside.
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Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, says it has tripled the workforce at the Halewood plant, to nearly 4,500, over the last three years.
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The company says it will also open a new logistics plant in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, creating 300 jobs.
Over 60,000 Range Rover Evoques have been sold since the sport utility vehicle went on sale in September.
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