type subsidiary industry automotive founded 2008 headquarters whitley coventry united kingdom 1 key people cyrus p. mistry 2 chairman dr ralf speth ceo products luxury vehicles off road vehicles production output 381 108 land rover 81 570 jaguar 2014 revenue 19.386 billion 3 fy2014 operating income 3.393 billion 3 fy2014 net income 2.501 billion 3 fy2014 total assets 15.589 billion 3 fy2014 total equity 5.864 billion 3 fy2014 number of employees 45 000 3 fy2016 parent tata motors divisions jaguar cars land rover subsidiaries jaguar land rover holdings limited jaguar land rover limited chery jaguar land rover 50 % jaguar land rover india website www.jaguarlandrover.com jaguar land rover limited 4 is a british multinational automotive company with its headquarters in whitley coventry united kingdom and a subsidiary of indian automaker tata motors . its principal activity is the design development manufacture and sale of vehicles bearing the jaguar and land rover including range rover marques . both marques have long and complex histories prior to their merger going back to the 1940s first coming together in 1968 as part of the ill fated british leyland conglomerate ; and later existed independently of each other as subsidiaries of bmw in the case of land rover and ford motor company in the case of jaguar ; ford later acquired land rover from bmw in 2000 following the break up of the former rover group ; which was effectively the remainder of british leyland . jaguar land rover has been a wholly owned subsidiary of tata motors since 2008 when the latter acquired it from ford . 5 it sold a total of 462 678 vehicles during 2014 comprising 381 108 land rover vehicles and 81 570 jaguar vehicles . 6 contents 1 history 2 corporate affairs 2.1 board of directors 2.2 financial data 3 operations 4 products 4.1 current jaguar products 4.2 current land rover products 5 sales 6 references 7 external links history edit both businesses having previously been part of british leyland for parts of their histories jaguar cars and land rover were eventually reunited as a single entity by the ford motor company in 2002 . 7 ford had acquired jaguar cars in 1989 and land rover from bmw in 2000 . 8 9 in 2006 ford purchased the rover brand name and logos from bmw for around 6 million . this reunited the rover and land rover brands for the first time since the rover group was broken up by bmw in 2000 and also brought jaguar into the same stable as rover land rover more than 15 years after it was spun out from the former british leyland in 1984 . in 2008 the jaguar land rover company was established when tata motors acquired the jaguar and land rover businesses from ford . 10 in march 2011 jaguar land rover announced that it would be hiring an additional 1 500 staff at its halewood plant and signed over 2 billion of supply contracts with uk based companies to enable production of its new range rover evoque model . 11 12 in september 2011 the company confirmed that it would be investing 355 million in the construction of a new engine plant at the i54 business park near wolverhampton central england to manufacture a family of four cylinder petrol and diesel engines . 13 14 in november 2011 jaguar land rover announced that it would be creating 1 000 new jobs at its solihull plant a 25 per cent increase in the size of the workforce at the site . 15 16 in march 2012 jaguar land rover announced the creation of 1 000 new jobs at its halewood plant and a shift to 24 hour production at the plant . 17 18 in the same month jaguar land rover and the china based carmaker chery agreed to invest an initial us 2.78 billion in a new joint venture the activities of which will include the manufacture of jaguar and land rover vehicles and engines the establishment of a research and development facility the creation of a new automobile marque and sales of vehicles produced by the company . 19 20 jaguar land rover plans to create 4 500 manufacturing and engineering jobs in the uk over the next five years . 21 in september 2013 jaguar land rover announced an additional 1 700 jobs and 1.5 billion investment at its facility in solihull . the money will be spent on designing systems to allow the chassis of future models to be made out of aluminium . the first of these models will be a new mid sized sports saloon car to be introduced in 2015 . 22 under its chief executive dr ralf speth jlr has increased its investment in r & d significantly . in 2013 according to speth it invested 3 billion in product creation and now claims to be the biggest r & d investor in the uk in the automotive business . 23 in september 2013 jaguar land rover announced plans to establish a new research and development center in the uk . 24 the national automotive innovation campus will be based at the university of warwick in coventry . jaguar land rover will invest 50 million in the facility with additional funding from tata motors the university and the uk government . 25 in january 2014 the wall street journal reported that jaguar land rover sold a record 425 006 vehicles in 2013 as demand for its luxury vehicles increased in all major markets including in china north america and europe . 26 corporate affairs edit jaguar land rover automotive is a public limited company incorporated under the laws of england and wales company no. 06477691 . the immediate parent of jaguar land rover automotive plc is tml holdings pte. ltd. singapore and the ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party is tata motors limited of india . 27 the chairman of tata group ratan tata was the chairman and a director of jaguar land rover automotive plc from 2008 to december 2012 . jaguar land rover automotive plc s principal active subsidiaries are 28 jaguar land rover holdings limited jaguar land rover limited designs manufactures and sells jaguar cars and land rover vehicles board of directors edit name 27 position 27 year appointed 27 ravi kant director 2008 andrew m. robb director 2009 dr. ralf d. speth chief executive officer and director 2010 financial data edit year ending turnover m ebitda m net income loss before tax m net income loss attributable to shareholders m 31 march 2015 29 21 866 4 132 2 614 n a 31 march 2014 3 19 386 3 393 2 501 1 879 31 march 2013 30 15 785 2 402 1 675 1 215 31 march 2012 31 13 512 2 027 1 507 1 481 31 march 2011 27 9 870.7 1 501.7 1 114.9 1 035.9 31 march 2010 27 6 527.2 349.1 51.4 23.5 31 march 2009 27 4 949.5 83.9 375.7 402.4 operations edit halewood body & assembly jaguar land rover currently has six main facilities for r & d manufacturing and vehicle assembly of which five are in the uk and one in india . jaguar land rover invested a total of 1 411 million in research and development in the year ended 31 march 2015 . 32 jaguar land rover has three research and development facilities in the uk gaydon warwickshire an engineering and development facility whitley coventry an engineering and development site and headquarters of jaguar land rover warwick manufacturing group university of warwick coventry advanced research and development vehicle assembly plants castle bromwich assembly birmingham uk jaguar xe jaguar xf jaguar xj jaguar f type halewood body & assembly halewood uk land rover discovery sport range rover evoque solihull plant solihull uk range rover range rover sport land rover discovery jaguar xe jaguar f pace pune india jaguar xf jaguar xj range rover evoque assembly of complete knock down kits only chery jaguar land rover changsu china range rover evoque land rover discovery sport jlr brazil itatiaia brazil range rover evoque engine assembly plants engine manufacturing centre wolverhampton uk planned facilities 33 34 production planned to start in 2016 jlr slovakia nitra slovakia 35 production planned to start in 2018 products edit jaguar land rover currently sells vehicles under the jaguar and land rover marques . it also owns the rights to the dormant daimler lanchester and rover marques . the latter was acquired by land rover whilst still under ford ownership from bmw in the aftermath of the collapse of mg rover group bmw having retained ownership of the marque when it broke up rover group in 2000 licensing it to mg rover as a condition of the sale of land rover to ford . current jaguar products edit jaguar xe compact executive car jaguar xf executive car & estate jaguar xj luxury car jaguar f type sports car jaguar f pace compact suv jaguar xe jaguar xf jaguar xj jaguar f type jaguar f pace current land rover products edit land rover discovery sport compact suv land rover discovery mid size suv range rover evoque compact suv range rover sport mid size suv range rover full size suv land rover discovery sport land rover discovery 4 range rover evoque range rover sport range rover sales edit in the year ended 31 march 2013 jaguar land rover sold a total of 374 636 units of which 316 043 were land rovers and 58 593 were jaguars . 36 in that period 21.6 % of sales were in europe excluding the united kingdom and russia 20.6 % in china 19.3 % in the united kingdom 16.8 % in the united states 4.8 % in asia pacific excluding china and 16.9 % in the rest of the world . 36 in 2015 jaguar land rover became the biggest car manufacturer in uk producing 489 923 cars and overtaking nissan the previous leader . 37 references edit jaguar land rover opens its new global headquarters building . jaguar land rover ltd. retrieved 2 july 2012 . tata corporate website cyrus p mistry is the chairman of tata sons and all major tata group companies retrieved 13 june 2013 . a b c d e f g jaguar land rover results for the year ended 31 march 2014 pdf . jaguar land rover ltd. retrieved 21 february 2015 . http www.jaguarlandrover.com gl en investor relations mike rutherford 29 march 2008 . mike rutherford ponders tata s takeover of land rover and jaguar . the daily telegraph . london telegraph media group . retrieved 30 july 2008 . jaguar land rover reports strong 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