I am writing a business report about one medium or large size business in my case Jaguar, in this I will consider the objectives, organisation, structure, culture, and communication channels, within the business and examine how these factors interrelate

                                                             1932 - 2004

Today there are 5 manufacturing sites in the UK: -

 

• Gaydon, Warwickshire - The corporate headquarters for Land Rover and Jaguar. Jaguar acquired the site in 1977; it contains a crash testing site and a test track workshop. It is state of the art, featuring the Product Engineering Centre and Head Office, plus a number of core teams.

• Browns Lane, Coventry - Is the site where Jaguar manufactures XJ and XK models. As seen in the top right of my map.                                          
• Whitley is located in Coventry; this is used as a Design and Development centre.
• Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, Manufactures the Jaguar S-type and deals

With the high technology for Jaguar.

Halewood, Liverpool

• Built in 1963
• Jaguar plant since 2001
• Factory has press shop, body & white assembly and trim/final
• 300 acres of manufacturing space.
• 2500 employees

Ford once owned this site but jaguar took over the site in 2001, the site is          renowned for its production quality the site also manufactures the X-type.

Halewood is jaguars newest plant the sight is used to manufacture the X-Type. Jaguar also uses Halewood to produce body panels for their other models using     giant pressing machines.

Its production is estimated at 100,000 per year.

Jaguar is a Public Limited Company (PLC), A Public Limited Company (PLC) can sell its shares on the Stock Market, to become a limited company, applicants have to submit a Memorandum of Association, which states the business' name, address and main purpose. It also describes the liability and amount of  invested. The internal workings of the company including the number of directors, how they are elected and what their roles are described in The Articles. This also describes how profits will be divided.

   

Advantages of a (PLC)

• Raise large amount of  from share issue.
• Benefit from economies of scale, e.g. bulk buying, cheaper borrowing.
• Produce goods at lower unit cost.

Disadvantages of a (PLC)

• Become too large resulting in poor .
• Conflict of interest between shareholders and the Board of Directors.
• Possibility of takeover or merger because shares can be bought by anyone.

Jaguar is part of Ford, which is listed on the American stock market, Fords shares are 70 dollars each 30 million shares in total. The company is valued at a couple of hundred billion dollars. Jaguar is part of the premier automotive group

• The Premier Automotive Group – Ford Motor Company's premium vehicle business group made up of UK-based Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover together with Sweden-based Volvo