{"id":112016,"date":"2014-12-15T22:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=112016"},"modified":"2014-12-15T13:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:11:05","slug":"bentley-to-invest-40m-in-new-bentley-rd-centre-in-crewe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2014\/12\/15\/bentley-to-invest-40m-in-new-bentley-rd-centre-in-crewe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley to Invest \u00a340M in New Bentley R&amp;D Centre in Crewe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/12\/934710_78180bm-Aerial-View-East.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/12\/934710_78180bm-Aerial-View-East-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"New Bentley R&amp;D Center in Crewe\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-112017\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/bentley\/\" title=\"Bentley News\">Bentley<\/a> has announced the latest phase in the company&#8217;s biggest ever site development &#8211; spending \u00a340 million more expanding its Crewe headquarters, with a new Bentley research and development centre creating over 300 jobs. <\/p>\n<p>The news was welcomed by George Osborne, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, visiting the company which is part of the Volkswagen Audi Group.            <\/p>\n<p>The new Bentley R&amp;D centre, covering over 45,000m\u00b2, will include a styling studio, offices and a technical workshop to house 1,300 Bentley engineers in the latest move towards Bentley\u2019s plans for the world\u2019s first ultra-luxury SUV to hit the road in 2016. 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>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/bentley-new-research-and-development-center\/934776_photo-max-earey-george-osborne-crewe-visit013.jpg\" title=\" \" class=\"thickbox\" rel=\"set_13568\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"934776_photo-max-earey-george-osborne-crewe-visit013\" alt=\"934776_photo-max-earey-george-osborne-crewe-visit013\" src=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/bentley-new-research-and-development-center\/thumbs\/thumbs_934776_photo-max-earey-george-osborne-crewe-visit013.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n \t \t\r\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\r\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div> \t\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The Bentley news follows the announcement in September by BMW-owned Rolls-Royce Motor Cars &#8211; based at the Crewe plant until 2002 &#8211; of plans for a 30,000m\u00b2 new Technology and Logistics Centre near its UK HQ at Goodwood in Sussex.        <\/p>\n<p>Bentley Motors Chairman and CEO Wolfgang D\u00fcrheimer said they would develop a new generation of Bentleys in their commitment to &#8220;luxury, performance, quality and engineering excellence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In 18 months Bentley has announced the creation of over 950 jobs, alongside record sales 10,120 last year and expecting to top that this year. The company also committed to an \u00a3800 million investment over three years in product and facility development, with this announcement raising the spend to \u00a3840 million.    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/12\/934714_78180-a-bm-Aerial-View-West.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/12\/934714_78180-a-bm-Aerial-View-West-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Bentley Research Center in Crewe\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-112018\" \/><\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>George Osborne said the investment will not only create jobs at Bentley, but support many more through suppliers across the UK.  <\/p>\n<p>Other Bentley projects include a new apprenticeship training facility, new flagship showroom,  expanded engine production facility and paint shop.         <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bentley has announced the latest phase in the company&#8217;s biggest ever site development &#8211; spending \u00a340 million more expanding its Crewe headquarters, with a new Bentley research and development centre creating over 300 jobs. The news was welcomed by George Osborne, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, visiting the company which is part of the Volkswagen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":112017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[71,15713,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}