Jaguar Land Rover cuts 450 staff
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Jaguar Land Rover announces it is cutting 450 jobs, including 300 managers, due to “severe reduction in demand”.
Jaguar Land Rover announces it is cutting 450 jobs, including 300 managers, due to “severe reduction in demand”.
A plan to guarantee up to £20bn of loans to small and medium-sized firms to help them survive the downturn is unveiled.
The biggest record shop in New York, the Virgin Megastore in Times Square, is to close in April.
Up to 240 jobs are under threat at pharmaceutical firm Pfizer’s research and development site in east Kent.
Airbus builds a new factory in France to assemble the wide-bodied A350 - the wings of which will be made at Filton near Bristol.
A third of employees at Seagate in Londonderry are to have their pay cut by 10% in a bid to cut costs.
A 200-year-old Derbyshire pottery firm is talking to union leaders about cutting back its workforce.
Shares in transport firm FirstGroup fall 12% after it says revenues at its North American Greyhound bus business have fallen.
Standard Chartered Bank chairman Mervyn Davies becomes a life peer and joins Gordon Brown’s government.
Deutsche Bank says it lost 4.8bn euros in the last quarter and warns of a full-year loss for 2008.