Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs globally over the next two years as part of a £1.7 billion cost-cutting plan. The cuts will primarily affect office roles and are expected to impact around 34,000 UK-based staff. JLR's financial performance has been weak, with revenues slumping by 9.6% in the latest quarter and profits declining more than 99% to £14 million for the financial year to March due to a cyber attack and other issues such as production disruptions caused by a fire at a supplier's factory and US tariffs. The company aims to drive its profits sharply higher with the cost-cutting measures, which are expected to help build a "stronger, more competitive JLR" for the future.
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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is planning to cut up to 4,000 jobs in a bid to save around £1.7 billion over the next two years. The company, which is owned by Tata Motors, has been hit by a cyberattack that brought production to a halt for over a month last year, as well as soaring costs and weaker demand. The job cuts will affect mainly white-collar workers in management and research and development roles.
JLR employs 34,000 people across its three sites in England, with a further 120,000 jobs supported in the supply chain. The company has informed staff and trade union partners about the voluntary redundancy programme, which will offer salaried and management team members the opportunity to leave the business.
The UK government has signalled that it will not invest taxpayers' money to limit job losses at JLR, with Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds stating that it is not his job to "intervene and run businesses". The company's plans for redundancies come as a blow to Andy Burnham, who recently pledged to "reindustrialise" Britain.
JLR is targeting a reduction in its break-even point to 300,000 vehicles, and needs to adapt to "evolving global market conditions". The company has strengthened its "house of brands" and transformed its product portfolio over the past three years, but now needs to make further changes to improve efficiency.
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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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