No Plans to List Jaguar Land Rover: Tata Motors

Tata Motors has shown significant growth in the last financial year and that's all thanks to Jaguar Land Rover. Tata Motor's cumulative passenger vehicle wholesales for financial year 2016-17 including Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) sales clocked 757,994 units, higher by 12 per cent when compared to FY15-16. Jaguar Land Rover alone dominated Tata Motors global passenger vehicles sales by selling over 6 lakh units in the same period. In fact retail sales went up by 54 per cent in April 2017 compared to April 2016 as Jaguar retailed 12,310 vehicles. The sales have been driven by cars like the F-Pace, XE as also the XJ.

Jaguar Land Rover's revenue has grown seven folds after Tata Motors bought the company in 2008. In fact, Jaguar Land Rover will invest 4 billion pounds ($5.1 billion) in the financial year through March 2018 which will also see it build a new factory in Slovakia. It's not entirely a bad idea then to list Jaguar Land Rover for Tata Motors. Given the fact that JLR has shown great growth prospects, selling stock would help JLR to fund new car developments and also investments in connected-car technologies and autonomous driving systems.