JCB
British multinational equipment manufacturer
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| 2024 | Sakyajit Bhattacharya's 'The One Legged' (translated from Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee) was nominated for the JCB Prize. |
| 2024 | Sharankumar Limable's work 'Sanatan' (originally in Marathi, translated to English by Paromita Sengupta) was nominated for the JCB Prize. |
| 2024 | Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari's 'Chronicle of an Hour and a Half' was nominated for the JCB Prize. |
| 2024 | Sandhya Maria's 'Maria, Just Maria' (translated from Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil) was nominated for the JCB Prize. |
| 2024 | Upamanyu Chatterjee's 'Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life' was nominated for the JCB Prize. |
| 2023 | JCB Prize awarded to multiple authors, including Tejaswini Apte-Rahm for 'The Secret of More', Manoranjan Byapari for 'The Nemesis', Perumal Murugan for 'Fire Bird', Vikramjit Ram for 'Mansur', and Manoj Rupda for 'I Named My Sister Silence'. |
| November 19 2022 | The JCB Prize winner was announced, continuing the celebration of translated literary works from various Indian languages. |
| October 21 2022 | The JCB Prize shortlist was announced, marking a unique year where all five shortlisted books were translations, highlighting the diversity of Indian literature. |
| September 3 2022 | The JCB Prize longlist was announced, featuring five translated books from different Indian languages including works by Manoranjan Byapari, Chuden Kabimo, Khalid Jawed, Geetanjali Shree, and Sheela Tomy. |
| March 2022 | Due to trade sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, JCB suspended its operations in Russia. |
| November 13 2021 | The JCB Prize winner was announced, with VJ James' novel 'Anti-Clock', translated from Malayalam by Ministhy S, being selected as the recipient. |
| October 4 2021 | The JCB Prize shortlist was announced, continuing to highlight the notable literary works of the year. |
| September 2021 | The JCB Prize longlist was announced, featuring works by VJ James, Daribha Lyndem, Shabir Ahmad Mir, M Mukundan, and Lindsay Pereira. |
| May 2021 | Anthony Bamford rejects an invitation to rejoin the CBI, having previously called it a 'waste of time' that 'didn't represent my business or private companies'. |
| 2020 | JCB received a £600M emergency loan from the UK government during the coronavirus pandemic, despite reporting a record £447M profit the previous year. The loan was described by CEO Graeme Macdonald as an 'insurance policy' against potential future disruptions. |
| 2020 | Mita Kapur was appointed as the new Literary Director of the JCB Prize, succeeding Rana Dasgupta. |
| November 7 2020 | The winner of the JCB Prize was announced, though the specific winning author was not detailed in the provided text. |
| October 2020 | The British government initiated an investigation into JCB's equipment sales to Israel, following a complaint by the charity Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights about potential non-compliance with OECD human rights guidelines. |
| September 2020 | The JCB Prize longlist was announced in September, featuring six literary works including Deepa Anappara's 'Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line' and Samit Basu's 'Chosen Spirits'. |
| September 25 2020 | The JCB Prize shortlist was officially announced, narrowing down the selection of notable literary works from the previous longlist. |
| February 12 2020 | The United Nations published a database listing JCB as involved in activities related to Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the supply of equipment facilitating settlement construction and expansion. |
| 2019 | JCB begins another period of political donations to the UK Conservative Party, contributing £2.5m between 2019 and 2021. |
| 2019 | Featured in a Channel 4 documentary about a modified 1000 horsepower JCB Fastrac designed to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest modified tractor, with a potential speed capability of over 150 mph. |
| November 2019 | The JCB Prize shortlist of five authors was announced, narrowing down the candidates for the literary award. |
| November 5 2019 | The JCB Prize winner was officially announced, culminating the selection process for the year. |
| October 23 2019 | JCB achieved the world record for the Fastest Tractor (Modified) with driver Guy Martin, averaging a high speed over two timed kilometres at Elvington, North Yorkshire. |
| September 2019 | The JCB Prize longlist was announced, featuring six notable literary works including Roshan Ali's 'Ib's Endless Search for Satisfaction', Manoranjan Byapari's 'There's Gunpowder in the Air', Perumal Murugan's 'A Lonely Harvest' and 'Trial by Silence', Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar's 'My Father's Garden', and Madhuri Vijay's 'The Far Field'. |
| October 2018 | The 5-member shortlist for the inaugural JCB Prize was announced, including works by Amitabha Bagchi, Benyamin, Perumal Murugan, Anuradha Roy, and Shubhangi Swarup. |
| October 25 2018 | Amitabha Bagchi was announced as the winner of the inaugural JCB Prize for his novel 'Half the Night is Gone'. |
| September 2018 | The inaugural JCB Prize longlist was announced in September, featuring notable works of Indian literature. |
| 2017 | JCB began manufacturing 20-30 tonne excavators in Solnechnogorsky District, Russia. |
| 2016 | Anthony Bamford donates £100,000 to Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit group, and writes to JCB's 6,500 staff explaining his support for the UK leaving the EU. |
| October 2016 | JCB leaves the CBI business lobby group due to the organization's anti-Brexit stance. |
| 2013 | JCB established its fourth manufacturing facility in India. |
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