July 15 (Reuters) - British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land
Rover will cut 300 jobs from its Halewood plant in the north of
England and stop production of its X-Type model due to the
downturn in the auto industry.
Following are details of major job cuts announced in Britain
since March:
* Indicates global job losses where many or most cuts will
be overseas
COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE
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Meggitt Aerospace up to 750* March 3
ITV Media 1,600 March 4
IMI Engineering 1,500* March 4
Principles unlisted Retail up to 2,000 March 7
Home Retail Group Retail 300 March 12
Daily Mail Media 1,000 March 23
Go-Ahead Transport 800 March 25
Man Group Hedge fund 270 March 26
BHP Billiton Ltd
Mining 400* March 26
Brawn GP unlisted Formula One 270 March 29
Man Group Hedge Funds 270 March 26
Jarvis Plc Rail services 450 March 31
Homeserve Insurance 250 March 31
BP Energy 620* April 1
Bombardier Inc Train/aircraft 975 April 2
Aviva Plc Life insurer 1,100 April 2
RBS Banking 2,700 April 3
Electrocomponents Electricals 470 April 3
Hampson Aerospace 150 April 3
RBS Banking 11,700* April 7
Helphire Group Plc
Accident claim handler 310 April 9
Toledo Mining Corporation
Plc Mining 600* April 14
HSBC Holdings Banking 2,900 April 21
Lavendon Group Plc Rental 225 April 23
Cattles Lender 1,130 April 28
Elementis Plc Chemicals 138 April 29
Charter International
Plc Engineer 1,200 April 29
Logica Plc IT 300* April 30
BAE Systems PLC Defence 500 April 30
Cadogan Petroleum
Plc Oil and gas 126 April 30
Wincanton Supply chain 283 April 30
Sage Group PLC Software 700 May 6
Firstgroup PLC Transport 3,500 May 13
Cookson Group Plc Industrial 3,200* May 14
materials
BT Group Telecoms 25,000 May 14
John Menzies Plc Distribution &
Aviation 400 May 14
White Young Green Plc Consultancy 324 May 18
QinetiQ Group Defence 400 May 21
AXA Insurance Insurer 560 June 11
Corus Steel maker 1,922 June 25
Lloyds Banking Group Banking 5,370* June 30
Diageo Plc Spirits 500 July 1
Penguin Books Publisher 100 July 7
Jaguar Land Rover Auto 300 July 15
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TOTAL 80,833
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NOTES: For companies that have had more than one round of job
cuts, numbers are shown against the date of the most recent
announcement and, where available, show the total number to
date.
(Compiled by UK equities team; additional writing and
editing by Jijo Jacob, David Cutler and Carl Bagh)