Vauxhall Motors
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| Vauxhall Motors | |
| Limited company | |
| Industry | Automotive |
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| Founded | United Kingdom (1857) |
| Founder | Alexander Wilson |
| Headquarters | Luton, Bedfordshire, England |
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Number of locations
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Two manufacturing facilities in the UK |
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Area served
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United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Rory Harvey, Chairman & Managing Director |
| Products |
Automobiles Commercial vehicles |
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Production output
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232,255 (2012 sales) |
| Services | Vehicle financing |
| Revenue | £3,837 million (2014) |
| -£48.7 million (2014) | |
| Profit | £9.2 million (2014) |
| Owner | General Motors Company |
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Number of employees
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4,029 (2011) |
| Parent | Adam Opel AG |
| Divisions | VXR |
| Website | vauxhall |
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Footnotes / references |
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Vauxhall Motors (/ˈvɒksɔːl/; a trading name used by General Motors UK Limited) is a British automotive manufacturing and distribution company headquartered in Luton (Bedfordshire) and an affiliated company of the German Adam Opel AG, both being wholly owned subsidiaries of General Motors (GM) in the United States. The company sells passenger cars and light commercial vehicles under the Vauxhall marque; in the past it has also sold buses and trucks under the Bedford brand. Vauxhall has been the second-largest-selling car brand in the UK for more than two decades.
Vauxhall was founded by Alexander Wilson in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer. It was bought in 1863 by Andrew Betts Brown who began producing travelling cranes. It was he who named it Vauxhall Iron Works. It began manufacturing cars in 1903. It was acquired by GM in 1925.Bedford Vehicles was established as a subsidiary of Vauxhall in 1930 to manufacture commercial vehicles. Having previously been a luxury car brand, after the Second World War Vauxhall became increasingly mass-market. Since 1980, Vauxhall products have been largely identical to those of Opel, GM's German subsidiary, and most models are principally engineered in Rüsselsheim, Germany. During the 1980s the Vauxhall brand was withdrawn from sale in all countries apart from the UK, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. At various times during its history, Vauxhall has been active in motorsports, including rallying and the British Touring Car Championship.
Vauxhall has major manufacturing facilities in Luton (commercial vehicles, IBC Vehicles) and Ellesmere Port, UK (passenger cars). The Luton plant currently employs around 900 staff and has a capacity of approximately 100,000 units. The Ellesmere Port plant currently employs around 1,880 staff and has a capacity of approximately 187,000 units. A high proportion of Vauxhall-branded vehicles sold in the UK are produced at Opel factories in Germany, Spain and Poland, and roughly 80% of Vauxhall production is exported, most of which is sold under the Opel brand.
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