Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has revealed plans to axe 4,000 jobs across its global workforce.
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The UK’s largest car manufacturer confirmed the major cuts on Monday morning in a move which helps the business with ambitions to cut its costs heavily.
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Here, the PA news agency looks at recent issues facing JLR and why it is cutting the roles:
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– What has it announced?
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JLR has said it plans to cut around 4,000 jobs globally over the next two years.
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The cuts are expected to largely impact office roles, with the majority affecting its UK operations, where around 34,000 staff in total are based.
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Just under 10,000 are employed by the company overseas.
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– What does it want to achieve?
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The company is seeking to drive its profits sharply higher after a weaker performance over the past year.
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The cuts are linked to a £1.7 billion cost-cutting plan announced by the group earlier this year in order to help boost its finances.
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Bosses at the company said they believe the overhaul will help build a “stronger, more competitive JLR” for the future.
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– How is the company performing financially?
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It has revealed declines in both sales and profits over the past year.
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In its latest update in August, JLR reported that revenues had slumped by 9.6% over the latest quarter after sales volumes of its vehicles fell by 9.2%.
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JLR also reported a pre-tax profit, before exceptional items, of £109 million for the quarter, compared with a £351 million profit a year earlier.
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It came after the company saw its profits nosedive by more than 99% to £14 million for the financial year to March, after being impacted by disruption to production linked to its major cyber attack, as well as other factors.
– What was the impact of last year’s cyber attack?
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JLR, which is owned by India’s Tata, was forced to halt production across its UK factories for five weeks from September 1 last year due to a cyber attack, weighing on sales in late 2025.
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Sales from September were therefore significantly reduced for a number of months as the firm built back production volumes.
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– What other issues have impacted the company?
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The cyber attack was one of a number of major issues which hit the group’s finances.
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More recently, production of its vehicles was knocked by the impact of a fire at a supplier’s factory.
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JLR briefly paused production for its Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models at its Solihull plant in March after a major fire at the factory of a component manufacturer in Norway.
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This heavily weighed on production volumes in the second quarter of 2026.
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The company was also impacted by the fallout of Donald Trump’s US tariff policy – which introduced a 10% tariff on the first 100,000 cars produced in a year, which this rising to 27.5% after.
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The tariff policy weighed on sales of the Range Rover and the Defender models in the US.
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JLR said earlier this year that it was talking with fellow carmaker Stellantis over a potential deal to allow them to produce vehicles in the US.
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– What else is impacting demand from potential customers?
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Major geopolitical and supply chain issues have also come amid a challenging consumer backdrop for the business.
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JLR is among a raft of car brands to have witnessed a slowdown as Chinese manufacturers, such as BYD and Chery, report positive growth.
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– Why is it currently making fewer cars?
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Production volumes were knocked back by a number of supply issues, such as the fire at its part supplier, but the company also opted to reduce its Jaguar production in 2025 as part of a transition to new models.
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The luxury brand decided to stop the production of numerous diesel and petrol-run models, including its F-Pace.
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Jaguar is making a transition to focus on electric models as part of a strategy overhaul designed to boost the brand’s fortunes.
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Production of its electric Range Rover was also due to start last year but is now expecting to launch in the coming weeks following delays.
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