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Wed, 01 Mar 2000
German car giant BMW has denied reports in UK newspapers that it may scrap plans to invest £1.7bn ($2.7bn) at its Rover car factory...
Tue, 07 Mar 2000
Land Rover has today announced a strong sales performance for the first two months of 2000. A total of 4186 vehicles were sold representing...
Tue, 14 Mar 2000
German car manufacturer BMW has admitted it is considering selling its troubled UK subsidiary, Rover. It is one of "several possibilities"...
Wed, 15 Mar 2000
BMW is reportedly losing one billion pounds a year at Rover. Much of that is one-offs, caused by an extensive redundancy programme,...
Thu, 16 Mar 2000
British union leaders have left a meeting with senior BMW managers in Munich, without securing assurances about the future of the loss-making...
Thu, 16 Mar 2000
Full text of statement by venture capital group Alchemy Partners on its acquisition of Rover Cars from BMW. Alchemy Partners is pleased...
Thu, 16 Mar 2000
The Rover Group was cobbled together from the remains of British Leyland, the state firm that combined all the mass production carmakers...
Thu, 16 Mar 2000
The break-up of UK car maker Rover has been described as "devastating" news for Birmingham. Leader of Birmingham City Council, Albert...
Thu, 16 Mar 2000
Full statement by BMW on its break-up of Rover Cars. The Board of Management of the BMW Group has decided this week on the principal...
Fri, 17 Mar 2000
Ford is to buy Land Rover from BMW, completing the German company's break-up of the Rover group. The US car giant said it had a memorandum...
Mon, 20 Mar 2000
Thousands of jobs could be at risk in Coventry and Warwickshire because of the sale of Rover by BMW. But 2,400 jobs at Gaydon are...
Sat, 25 Mar 2000
At a meeting yesterday (24 March) between the Rover Dealer representatives and senior executives at Rover, a constructive discussion...
Sat, 25 Mar 2000
The head of Rover has blamed the government-backed campaign against "rip-off Britain" for contributing to its sales crisis. Professor...
Tue, 28 Mar 2000
The general manager of an Exhall factory threatened with closure says its fate is nothing to do with the difficulties at Rover. More...
Tue, 28 Mar 2000
One of the most militant trade union shop stewards of the 1970s has said that the decade's notorious strikes are not to blame for Rover's...