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NISSAN’S Sunderland Plant has been awarded the Queen’s Award for continued achievement in International Trade. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the UK’s most prestigious awards for business performance, recognising and rewarding outstanding achievement by UK based companies. Nissan currently exports 80 per cent of its cars to 97 worldwide markets from Sunderland; markets include [...]

Nissan’s plans for its Sunderland plant are making headlines around the world – and now the business editor of The Times has added his praise for the developments. Writing in his opinion column in today’s Times, Ian King praises Nissan for its plans to build a new C-segment car in Sunderland and for taking on [...]

NISSAN and the Prime Minister David Cameron have announced an all-new midsized model will be produced at the Sunderland Plant in 2014. It follows the announcement at last month’s Geneva Motor Show that Sunderland will also produce a mainstream B-segment compact car based on the INVITATION concept from next year. The new medium hatchback will [...]

STAFF at Nissan’s Sunderland plant capped their 25th anniversary year in style with a string of new UK car industry records. In 2011 the plant made a total of 480,485 vehicles, dwarfing the 2010 total of 423,262 vehicles, which itself was the first time any UK car plant had ever made more than 400,000 cars [...]

TREVOR Mann, Nissan’s Senior Vice President for Manufacturing, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management in Europe, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List. On receiving the honour, made in recognition of his Services to Business in North East England, Mann said the award reflected the team effort that has underpinned the [...]

SUNDERLAND Football Club is switching from its traditional red and white to green after taking delivery of a brand new Nissan LEAF. The LEAF joins the club’s existing fleet of vehicles and will be used by staff in and around Sunderland as they go about their daily business. Senior vice president of Nissan Europe, Trevor [...]

NISSAN has put together a special video celebrating 25 years of the Sunderland plant. The film starts with the the-then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaking at the opening of the groundbreaking plant. Workings and executives speak about the plant which has produced more than 6.2m vehicles since September 8, 1986. Tweet Share

CELEBRATIONS have begun at Nissan’s Sunderland Plant which is officially 25 years old this week. To mark the milestone, a ceremony will be held at the plant in which a time capsule will be buried on the site – recreating the ceremony held when construction of the plant began. The new time capsule updates the [...]