Bloomberg: Land Rover will be in Slovakia or Poland

JAGUAR Land Rover, the British luxury-car unit of Tata Motors Ltd., is closing in on a decision to expand its manufacturing base, with Poland and Slovakia the leading candidates for an investment that could total more than $1.85 billion, the Bloomberg newswire wrote.

Jaguar symbolJaguar symbol (Source: SITA/AP)

A sixth round of negotiations begins on July 6, Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechocinski said at a press conference on July 3, in response to a question about Poland’s talks with Tata Motors.

The British carmaker “continues to evaluate opportunities around the world to increase its global manufacturing footprint in the future,” the Whitley, England-based company said in an e-mail. “Europe is an attractive option, but it is just one of the places under consideration”.

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The car manufacturer is considering Poland and Slovakia as potential locations for Jaguar’s new plant, with Krakow in southern Poland a leading possibility, the Polish edition of Newsweek reported in April. The two countries are competing to provide a site for a plant, which would produce as many as 350,000 vehicles a year with production due to begin in 2019. The total investment of the project is more than $1.85 billion, Piechocinski said as quoted by Bloomberg.

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