Overview

• Manufacturing restarts on October 8 at the Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton and the Battery Assembly Centre in the West Midlands, with staff also returning to stamping sites in Castle Bromwich, Halewood and Solihull and to key areas of the Solihull plant.
• Vehicle output will follow later this week at Nitra in Slovakia and on the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport lines in Solihull, with a Halewood update to come and high‑volume production expected to take weeks.
• JLR launched a short‑term supplier financing scheme that pays a majority shortly after order placement and a final true‑up on invoice, and it will reimburse financing costs for qualifying suppliers during the restart phase.
• Automated supplier payment systems have been re‑established after manual workarounds, and the new scheme will expand beyond critical production suppliers to some non‑production vendors.
• The phased recovery follows a late‑August cyberattack that shut factories worldwide; the UK has announced a £1.5 billion loan guarantee to bolster liquidity across JLR’s supply chain.