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JLR to resume production; wholesale & retail sales dip in Q2 FY26

British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will resume manufacturing at the Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre (EPMC) on Wednesday. Meantime, the company’s wholesale sales dipped 24.2 per cent in Q2 FY26 to 66,165 units. The retail sales were down 17.1 per cent to 85,495 units in Q2 FY26. JLR stated volumes were impacted since the start of September by the recent cyber incident, with production stoppages impacting wholesales. Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Defender model mix was 76.7 per cent of total wholesale volumes in Q2 FY26, down from 77.2 per cent in the prior quarter and up from 67.0 per cent year-on-year. The manufacturing will begin at the Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre (EPMC), where the company builds engines, and at its Battery Assembly Centre (BAC) in the West Midlands, UK. Employees will also return to operations in Castle Bromwich, Halewood and Solihull, UK, and other areas of its Solihull vehicle production plant, including its body shop, paint shop and its Logistics Operations Centre (LOC), which feeds parts to JLR’s global manufacturing sites. This will be followed by vehicle manufacturing in Nitra, Slovakia, and the restart of the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport (MLA) production lines in Solihull. Further, there will be a phased restart will follow for JLR’s Halewood plant on Merseyside. Tata Motors-owned JLR was hit by a cyber attack in September, and the luxury car maker had to shut down its system to contain and mitigate the impact. “It has been a challenging quarter for JLR. In the first two months, our performance was robust and in line with our expectations, against the backdrop of the planned wind-down of legacy Jaguar models and the impact of incremental US tariffs. From the start of September, we have been responding to a cyber incident, which shut down our production. Since then, we have worked with retailers to prioritise the delivery of our world-class vehicles to our clients,” said Adrian Mardell, CEO, JLR. Further, JLR will introduce a new financing scheme to support JLR suppliers that will provide qualifying JLR suppliers with cash up front during the production restart phase. The company, since the cyber attack, has established a dedicated supplier help desk and implemented a manual payment system to settle outstanding invoices. “Working with a banking partner, this short-term financing scheme means qualifying JLR suppliers will receive a majority prepayment shortly after the point of order and a final true-up payment on receipt of invoice. JLR’s typical supplier payment terms are 60 days post invoice, so this scheme accelerates payments by as much as 120 days. JLR will reimburse the financing costs for those JLR suppliers who use the scheme during the restart phase, as the company returns to full production,” mentioned the company in a statement. Published on October 7, 2025