Nissan Motor Corporation is to invest £100mn in its Sunderland plant in Tyne and Wear, for manufacture of the next generation of its Juke Crossover model, The Daily Telegraph reported on 3 September.
The move is expected to guarantee 6,700 jobs at the plant and support 27,000 positions in the supply chain.
Paul Wilcox, European chairman of Nissan, said: “This announcement gives security to our Sunderland plant beyond 2020, which the team has earned through many years of hard work and their ability to continually raise the bar on quality”.