Leap Wireless cut 180 jobs and shuttered 27 company stores nationwide. The flat-rate carrier said the restructuring reflects its changing priorities for the year. Leap spokesman Greg Lund told FierceWireless that 90 of the job cuts were corporate positions and 90 were "field positions." Leap has around 4,200 total corporate employees and now has 242 company-owned stores. The company undertook a re...
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FierceWireless on 9th Mar 2010 (via fiercewireless.com)
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French workers have freed two managers they had detained at a Siemens AG subsidiary after the managers agreed to talks on the future of a plant slated for closure.Talks on restructuring at the steel engineering subsidiary Siemens VAI MT are being held Wednesday in the city hall of Saint-Chamond...
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WirelessWeek on 3rd Mar 2010 (via wirelessweek.com)
The rating actions follow both the completion of the company's debt restructuring process in November 2009 and Fitch's review of management's business strategy for 2010 and beyond. Click here for more.
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Nokia plans on cutting 285 staff workers from their Salo plant in Finland as part of their restructuring efforts – basically sharpening their eyes on the...
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The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has announced a restructuring of the organization, in which its four operating regions - Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America and North America - will be transformed into business units....
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MobileMarketingMagazine on 2nd Feb 2010 (via mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk)
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has launched a major restructuring effort that will turn the organization’s four worldwide operating regions into separate business units.
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WirelessWeek on 1st Feb 2010 (via wirelessweek.com)
Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG says it plans to slash around 2,000 manufacturing jobs in Germany as part of restructuring measures due to lower market demand.The company said in a statement Thursday that the job cuts would include roughly 850 jobs in its industry solutions division and...
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WirelessWeek on 28th Jan 2010 (via wirelessweek.com)
Sony Ericsson posted a net loss of $40 million for this quarter. Its quarterly net income after taxes and restructuring charges was $167 million, a year-over-year increase of $20 million. Sony Ericsson sold 500,000 more units quarter-over-quarter for a total of 14.6 million unit sales in the fourth quarter. Units shipped in 2009 totaled 51.1
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