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Now markets like China have emerged, which, amazingly, recognise the heritage and the brands. We are looking at increasing our footprint in China substantially by way of a joint venture. And India has emerged as an interesting potential market. In fact, what we have for our plans in the UK, when we took the company there were lots of rumours about closing down one plant and operating two. Now we are operating three plants full blast, we have added 1,000 people and we are looking at creating the fourth plant in Staffordshire, an advanced engine plant. Reports have linked JLR with establishing a new base in Brazil to assemble Freelander 4x4s, as a first step towards full local production of cars in South America's largest economy. However, Mr Tata said the Chinese plant was the only one currently on the table. Another alternative would be to outsource sub-assembly, rather than just components, which would also increase capacity.
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This trail was led on Saturday by Chuck Powell. Since Chuck has two young girls of his own and does family friendly trails, we chose to go with him. We ended up having nine kids under the age of ten and six dogs. T-shirt for the girls. The trail was easy, but had more than 20 water crossings. Water crossing are rare and well appreciated in southern Arizona. We were joined on the trail by four Discovery's, a Freelander, an LR3, an LR2 and Chevy Blazer masquerading as a Range Rover. The owner of the Blazer had posted a picture of his Range Rover on the back window with the note, 鈥淚n the Shop.鈥?We were glad to have him on our trail. Lunch was served after one of the longer crossings, next to a beautiful slot side canyon. The kids all disappeared up the canyon, and we had to climb it to go find them.
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