Vauxhall closure set to have '£310m impact on Luton'
The closure of the Vauxhall plant in Luton will cost the town a total of about 3,700 jobs and have a £310m impact on the local area's economy, a council leader told BBC Politics East. On Tuesday, Stellantis, the owner of Vauxhall, announced plans to close its Bedfordshire van-making factory, putting about 1,100 jobs at the plant at risk.
Vauxhall's Luton plant to close with fears over 1,100 jobs as production moved
Vauxhall started making cars in 1903 in South London but moved to a new factory in Kimpton Road Luton in 1905. Car manufacturing in at the Bedfordshire plant ended in 2002 - the last car to roll of the production line was a Vectra - after nearly 100 years, leading to 1,900 job losses.
Pupils say they wanted to 'continue the lineage' by becoming the next generation to work at Vauxhall's Luton factory, but ...
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Stellantis CEO resigns suddenly just days after closing Vauxhall's Luton plant amid 'different views'Carlos Tavares, CEO of Vauxhall owner Stellantis, has resigned with immediate effect, just days after the announcement that ...
Stellantis has revealed plans to close the Luton Vauxhall factory next year after nearly 120 years of producing vehicles in ...
Stellantis's chief executive resigns after a difficult year, which saw the firm announce Luton's Vauxhall plant will close in ...
Vauxhall is planning to shut its Luton van-making factory in a move that puts 1,100 jobs at risk, as net zero rules force it ...
Stellantis shares plummet as CEO Carlos Tavares abruptly resigns following the announcement of the closure of the Luton ...
It is easy to throw around the blame. The owner of Vauxhall is now Stellantis, which was formed by Chrysler, Fiat and Peugeot ...
Our joke of a business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, was warned TEN days after Labour won the election that the factory was ...
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