Goodwood-based Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is to build a new technology and logistics centre at Bognor Regis. Located on the Oldlands Farm Business Park, eight miles from the company’s headquarters, the 322,917ft2 centre will consolidate a number of logistics functions and allow for future expansion.

About 200 people will be employed at the new centre, which should be fully operational in early 2016.

CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös said: “Every Rolls-Royce motor car is built at the home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood, and this new facility will provide the required local logistics support for our current and future models. Rolls-Royce is a British manufacturing success, and we remain fully committed to building our future here in West Sussex.”

Nick Gibb, the MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, said the centre will be a “major boost” for the town. “The very fact that Rolls-Royce is investing so much money in creating a facility that is three quarters of the size of its Goodwood facility in our town will encourage a lot of other companies.”