Reportedly India's Tata Motors Ltd expects to shed about 1,100 temporary jobs at Jaguar land rover after it raised the cost-cutting target at its luxury unit by 1 billion pounds ($1.26 billion) to ride out the disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Tata Motors expects to save 5 billion pounds in costs by march 2021 at its Jaguar land rover (JLR) unit, the indian automaker’s Chief Financial Officer PB balaji said on monday, adding 3.5 billion pounds of the savings had already been achieved.
It will also reduce capital expenditure at JLR to 2.5 billion pounds for the current fiscal year, from more than 3 billion pounds it has spent annually in previous years. “Conserving cash and prioritising capital expenditure, and targeting investment spending to the right areas is our focus,” balaji told reporters, after the company posted a fourth-quarter loss. We anticipate that up to 1,100 agency employees will be affected, a JLR spokeswoman said in a separate statement. Tata Motors is reviewing all its businesses and would consider exiting those that do not add strategic value, as part of a broader effort to save 60 billion rupees ($789 million) in its domestic business in the fiscal year to 2021.
Moreover the automaker on monday posted a consolidated fourth-quarter net loss of 98.94 billion rupees, as coronavirus lockdowns across its markets ravaged sales, including at JLR. Total revenue from operations fell 27.7 per cent to 624.93 billion rupees in the quarter, which ended march 31.
