The company, owned by India's Tata Motors , on Tuesday said the investment would also deliver another 24,000 jobs in the supply chain.
The latest additions will bring the total number of UK manufacturing jobs announced by JLR over the last three years to almost 11,000.
Tata Motors posted a 23 percent fall in quarterly profit as higher sales of its luxury Jaguar Land Rover vehicles failed to offset sagging sales at home.
Karl Slym wants to change the way Tata Motors makes and sells its cars. But the cars he has don‘t sell; and his idea of those that will should take at least two years to hit the market.
Jaguar Land Rover will not expand its overseas production capacity until its new China factory comes online, its CEO said on Tuesday, and will target growing demand in markets such as Turkey to continue round-the-clock manufacturing in the UK.
Tata Motors owned Jaguar Land Rover plans to increase investment in the new engine manufacturing centre in the UK to more than GBP 500 million from earlier committed GBP 350 million.
Tata Motors' first quarter consolidated net profit rose 12% year-on-year at Rs 2,245 crore. But it missed analysts expectations due to a foreign exchange loss and slow sales in the domestic market.
Even as the United Kingdom reels under economic slowdown, Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) today announced it will hire 1,100 people for its manufacturing facility at Castle Bromwich to support launch of new models.