Fears for safety of Nissan jobs in UK after sales and profits tumble
Japanese firm Nissan has become the latest car manufacturing giant to publish gloomy sales figures amid concerns about its future in Britain.
Turnover at Nissan’s UK business, which is headquartered in Sunderland, fell by £93million last year to £6.3billion while its profits plunged 6.6 per cent to £133million.
The automotive behemoth, which employs nearly 8,000 people in the UK, also revealed its car production fell 6.2 per cent to 487,000 vehicles in the year to March 2018.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday last month, Ford’s European boss Steven Armstrong said: If the industry can’t continue to operate competitively, we would have to think about where we continue and how we continue to invest.
The firm said it was facing numerous problems, including weake...
