Nissan has announced today, October 27, that they will produce the next Qashqai model at its Sunderland Plant securing jobs hanging in the balance post-brexit. Nissan’s plant in Washington celebrated 30 years of building cars on Wearside this year but the future of 7,000 workforce wasn’t secure due to the […]
One of Sunderland’s most influential rap artists, Jay ‘Smooth Jezza’ Henderson, is also a barber. He says that the conversation of Nissan’s closure is continuously increasing within his barbershop. Following Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn’s revelation that he is ‘confident’ of a resolution, Jay insists that he doesn’t “think the Nissan […]
The boss of Nissan has said future decisions about the car giant’s Sunderland plant will depend on the outcome of Brexit negotiations. The Japanese manufacturer employs 6,700 people at its Wearside plant, with another 30,000 in the supply chain employed elsewhere in the North East. Mr Ghosn told the BBC: […]
The Nissan plant in Sunderland has surpassed a manufacturing record for the highest single-name manufacturing total. Production of the Nissan Qashqui, at the Sunderland factory, has reached 2,368,705 units. The previous record was held by the Nissan Micra supermini, where the total stood at 2,368,704 units. Nissan’s Sunderland plant continues to […]
Car manufacturer Nissan has shown its support for Sunderland’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat station. Nissan presented the volunteer lifeboat crew based at Sunderland’s RNLI station a cheque for £1,000. It was presented by its staff council at the Sunderland plant and received by James Jamieson, the local operations manager […]
Young people from across Sunderland will be gaining knowledge of a career in advanced manufacturing at a special event at Nissan. This comes as part of the Work Discovery Sunderland programme, which is a number of sector days that are organised to give young people the opportunity to get an in-depth insight […]