Mois : février 2021

The current buzz word in the automotive industry is ‘electrification’. All car makers seem to be focusing on an electric future and in the UK that really doesn’t look to be too far off. The UK Government has banned new cars powered purely by petrol or diesel engines from 2030. Hybrid technology, which combines internal […]

Aston Martin has revealed losses of almost half-a-billion pounds as the pandemic continued to take its toll on the Warwickshire car maker. Losses before tax in 2020 rose to £466m compared with a £120m loss a year earlier. The figures reflect the Gaydon-headquartered firm having to write off almost £100m of investments in scrapped projects, […]

A Coventry recruitment agency has won a major national contract to supply doctors, nurses and allied health care staff to the NHS. Midland Recruitment Group is a specialist staffing supplier to the education, health and social care sector and has 100 immediate vacancies for doctors of all grades, general registered nurses and healthcare assistants in […]

Welcome to our regular news round-up relating to all things Jaguar Land Rover. We look at some of the stories about Britain’s biggest car maker, which has its global headquarters in Coventry. It continues to be a challenging time for the company as the automotive industry struggles due to the coronavirus pandemic but there’s also […]

There was a lot said in a debut press conference conducted by Jaguar Land Rover CEO Thierry Bolloré this week. It was the first time Mr Bolloré had addressed the word’s media since taking over from Ralf Speth last autumn and he announced some big changes. In the wake of the Monday briefing the company […]

A ‘dramatic reduction’ of management roles will be carried out at Jaguar Land Rover as part of a company restructure. Plans to reshape the business were revealed by the company’s CEO this week as he also mapped out the Coventry car maker’s electrified future as part of its Reimagine programme. In his first press conference […]

An electric vehicle start-up firm is to create 200 highly skilled engineering jobs at a new UK base near Nuneaton. The REE Automotive Engineering Centre will be based at the MIRA Technology Park. REE Automotive is an Israeli firm which has developed an electric vehicle platform which can be used for a wide range of […]

Many people are aware of BMW’s UK manufacturing presence in the UK through its MINI plant in Oxfordshire but its activities in Warwickshire are sometimes overlooked. BMW Group’s UK engine manufacturing plant is located in Hams Hall near Coleshill in North Warwickshire and this year it marks a major milestone. Officially opening and starting production […]

LEVC, the company which makes the iconic London taxi on the edge of Coventry, is expanding its operations into Austria. The company has announced its move into the Austrian market with the appointment of Grünzweig Automobil GmbH as dealers for its vehicles. The dealership is based near Austria’s capital city of Vienna and will offer […]

As supermarkets are currently pretty much the only shops we can go to, you may be wondering what they pay their workers. And as some workers in other industries have been furloughed or made redundant due to the coronavirus lockdown, supermarkets have been taking on more staff, including increasing their numbers of delivery drivers. Quite […]

An adaptable industrial robot that can ‘think’ like a human has been developed at an engineering centre on the edge of Coventry. However anyone concerned about the seemingly unstoppable advance of artificial intelligence and the prospect of robots taking over the world can be assured it is purely something to make manufacturing more efficient. The […]

House hunting can be a daunting prospect, particularly if shopping on a budget. And, while Coventry has a busy property market with plenty of homes of all shapes and sizes up for grabs, it can be tricky to find the right place that ticks all of the boxes. Obviously, there is no blanket approach to […]

More than 800 jobs are now up for grabs as recruitment gets underway at a new megalab in Warwickshire. As reported, Leamington has been chosen to house one of two state-of-the-art laboratories as part of the UK’s NHS Test and Trace programme. Recruitment is now underway for laboratory support technicians. This role is based at […]