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Will Ivey, a Level Four Master Technician at Vertu Land Rover Truro in Cornwall, has been named the winner of the UK JLR Master Technician Award for the second year in a row. The achievement highlights Will’s exceptional skills and dedication to his craft, particularly in the areas of hybrid and electric vehicle technology, where Master Technicians excel. Will said: ...

JLR has made new appointments to its Executive Leadership Team to support the next phase of its development and transformation. With effect from 21 October 2024, Steve Marsh is appointed executive director, vehicle programmes, reporting to JLR CEO, Adrian Mardell. Swarna Ramanathan is appointed chief strategy officer and John Beswick has been appointed chief transformation and performance officer, effective 4 ...

JLR (UK) has appointed Angela Shepherd its new Sales Director. Shepherd and her team will drive JLR’s sales operation as part of its UK retail transformation. This brings together various teams across the sales function, including volume planning; new and used cars; and Fleet and Business. Shepherd and her team will ensure sales systems are simplified and shaped to benefit ...

  JLR is investing £500m in its Halewood facility to produce electric vehicles, alongside existing combustion and hybrid models at the plant. Originally built in 1963 to produce the Ford Anglia, Halewood is being transformed for the electric era. So far, £250m has been invested in the site, which has been extended by 32,364 sqm to produce JLR’s medium-sized electric ...

Andersen has installed 12 A2 charge points at the Land Rover Experience Centre at Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire. Andersen has supported JLR’s plug-in Defender, Discovery and Range Rover demonstrator vehicles at Eastnor Castle. David Martell, CEO of Andersen EV, said: “There are very obvious synergies between our two businesses. “We share a passion for advanced EV technologies, and we both ...

Stephen Trowell has taken on the new role of franchise director of JLR at Marshall Group. Last month Trowell announced he was leaving Hedin Automotive where he had been managing director for under two years. Before that he was a market area director with Mercedes-Benz Retail Group and also served a stint as a sales director with the factory-owned dealer ...

North-West London based Group 1 Jaguar Land Rover has partnered with Autotech Academy to take on an intern, demonstrating the importance of employing skilled vehicle technicians. Ahmed Mahamud (pictured) joined JLR as an Autotech Academy intern in June 2023 and has now been employed by them permanently. Kevin Grimes, service manager at the Group 1 Jaguar Land Rover site, said: ...

As high temperatures return to a number of parts of the world setting off forest fires that can rapidly surround whole communities, I see a parallel to the challenges that we face as an industry. Over the last 10 days I’ve participated (with some restrictions due to Covid) in three events and had a number of conversations with friends and ...

JLR is investing more than £1 million in support of policing to tackle organised crime groups targeting vehicles. Several police forces will have additional, dedicated resources to respond to vehicle thefts in hotspots across the UK. Patrick McGillycuddy, MD at JLR UK, said: “We are constantly developing our systems and security features and through our close collaboration with police, we ...

JLR UK is accelerating its roll-out of security software updates for Range Rover, Defender, Discovery and Jaguar vehicles from as far back as 2018. The software aims to remove the risk of keyless theft. More than 160,000 vehicles have received the security software updates already. Patrick McGillycuddy MD JLR UK, said: “We understand that being a victim of car crime ...