habser | yesterday
General Motors ’ loss could be Jaguar Land Rover’s gain as it’s been reported that outgoing GM Europe chief Carl-Peter Forster could soon be heading to Tata-owned JLR within the next few months, according to London’s Sunday Times.
Autoblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Jaguar , Land Rover , Opel , Rumormill It appears that outgoing Opel chief Carl-Peter Forster may have already lined up a new gig for himself. According to The Times of London , Forster will become an employee of Tata Motors and take the top job at Jaguar-Land Rover. If this appointment comes through, it will be something of a homecoming...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
INDIAN giant Tata Motors is staying tight-lipped over reports that the outgoing boss of General Motors in Europe would be joining Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).
Leftlane (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following his departure from General Motors last week, former Opel head Carl-Peter Forster has reportedly landed a job as head of British operations for India’s Tata Motors. The new role will put Forster in charge of Tata-owned Jaguar and Land Rover. Forster resigned as Opel’s CEO after General Motors failed to sell the ailing German [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British executives are being lined up to run both Jaguar Land Rover and Vauxhall.
Wheelosphere (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Land Rover has hit a hat trick of sales rise with its October month sales rising by as much as 89% from last year’s levels. Its five models managed a combined sales of 2855 units in October this year in the UK. Related posts: Tata Jaguar Land Rover Plans Home Coming Tata plans to bring their Jaguar-Land Rover India.Ravi Kant, Tata... VW Beetle In India By October...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Carl-Peter Forster, the departing boss of General Motors Europe, has been lined up to take charge of Jaguar Land Rover, the Midlands-based luxury carmaker.
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
British union leaders are to meet lawmakers from a key manufacturing belt Wednesday in what has been dubbed an 'MPs' summit' to discuss the fate of thousands of workers facing job losses at Tata-owned Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) factories.
Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
LONDON - British union leaders are to meet lawmakers from a key manufacturing belt Wednesday in what has been dubbed an 'MPs' summit' to discuss the fate of thousands of workers facing job losses at Tata-owned Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) factories. Although unions are not seeking to involve owners Tata Motors at this point [...]
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The departing head of General Motors in Europe, Carl-Peter Forster, is in talks with Tata Motors over a senior position at Jaguar Land Rover
Just Auto (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A report in London's Sunday Times over the weekend suggests that outgoing GM Europe chief Carl-Peter Forster could be heading for a role as head of Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) 'within the next few months'.
BrandFaqs: The Brand Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... launching Tata's budget Nano car in Europe, due in 2011. Tata also owns the prestigious British Jaguar and Land Rover brands. GM confirmed Friday that Forster was quitting. The former Opel boss had been highly critical of GM's last-minute decision not to sell the German carmaker to Canadian-Austrian car parts manufacturer Magna and their Russian backer, state-owned Sberbank.
America's Right (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... one, Alan Mulally from Boeing. While GM kept its unwieldy assortment of eight brands, Ford sold Jaguar and Land Rover, cutting its brand lineup down to a manageable size. (Another Ford brand, Volvo, appears close to being sold.) The zig-versus-zag pattern continued when General Motors bet big on home mortgages through GMAC and then sold control of the financing unit, which now is...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Tata group may have just managed to fend off major labour unrest among the Corus workforce by disbursing a much-awaited bonus, but there's another brewing on the Jaguar Land Rover front.
1853 Chairman (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Ford that didn’t crystallize until a new CEO walked in the door. He took aim at distractions like Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo, even Mazda, and conflicts like Ford’s regional silos; he galvanized existing leaders around the approach, cashiering very few; they used some $23 billion in borrowed money to finance a turnaround powered mostly by uncharacteristic discipline and well-executed...
