More retail job cuts predicted in 2006 Edition: FIRST Section: Business Grim trading conditions forced retailers into the biggest jobs cull for at least 22 years, the latest CBI quarterly distributive trades survey revealed. The business lobby group blamed "poor retail climate" for 37 per cent of
Byline: Helen Logan Union leaders today vowed to fight to save as many jobs as possible at a closure-hit Teesside factory. MFI has dropped the bombshell that it is axing its Hygena kitchen and bedroom furniture plant, at Preston Farm, Stockton, with the loss of 533 jobs. The news came as the
Around 1,500 jobs were at risk yesterday as furniture retailer MFI prepared to close 11 stores and outsource more of its manufacturing operations. The ailing retailer also unveiled a major shift in its focus by selling more upmarket kitchens and bedrooms and cutting back on other areas such as home
Source: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: By SION BARRY Western Mail Secured lending venture Firstplus has announced it is creating 100 jobs in Cardiff, as well as planning to move to larger headquarters in the city. The company, a subsidiary of Barclays Bank, specialises in the strongly performing UK secured loans sector, where
Source: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Posted: 2006-03-02
FURNITURE group MFI yesterday revealed plans to cut almost 1500 jobs as part of a plan to revive their fortunes. The group will reduce UK manufacturing by 40 per cent and close at least 11 stores, as well as shutting three home delivery centres and their sofa workshop business. The stores targeted
Source: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Around 1,500 jobs are at risk as furniture retailer MFI prepares to close 11 stores and outsource more of its manufacturing operations. The retailer also announced a major shift in its focus by selling more upmarket kitchens and bedrooms. pounds 7.94bn profits for RBOS ROYAL Bank of Scotland has
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Fed: Airspace regulator slashes 300 jobs CANBERRA, March 1 AAP - The airspace regulator will slash 300 jobs as part of a restructure. Airservices Australia today announced 300 positions across the organisation, which employs 3,000 people, would go as part of efforts to flatten its management
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Cable & Wireless, the British phone company, said it planned to cut as many as 3,000 jobs in Britain over the next five years, reducing its work force in the country by about half. To cut costs further, it said it planned to reduce its customer base to about 3,000 large corporate customers and
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: Gail Appleson Mar. 1--It was business as usual Tuesday for most area Famous-Barr and Lord & Taylor employees, but at the offices of the former May Department Stores Co. downtown, it was the end of an era for about 490 workers, who will pick up severance checks today. Their departure marks
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: Jeff Hood Mar. 1--LODI - From spaying cats to filling food-bank pantries, Lodi has spent its annual federal block grant allocation over the years helping nonprofit groups reach their goals. But for the coming fiscal year, City Manager Blair King wants the City Council to consider spending
Source: The Record (Stockton, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Cable & Wireless, the British phone company, said Tuesday that it planned to cut as many as 3,000 jobs in Britain over the next five years, reducing its work force in the country by about half. To cut costs further, Cable & Wireless plans to reduce its customer base to about 3,000 large
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: Keith Benman Mar. 1--As the region takes aim at becoming a transportation and distribution powerhouse, it might be able to learn some lessons from a sparsely populated neighbor just to the east. The Starke County Development Foundation and the town of Hamlet both played big roles in landing
Source: The Times (Munster, Indiana) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: By Nigel Stirling More than 500 factory workers on Teesside are facing the axe after furniture retailer MFI announced a wide-ranging restructuring of its business yesterday. New chief executive Matthew Ingle announced the changes as the company revealed its trading difficulties had forced
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: Michael Harrison Business Editor GKN, the automotive components and aerospace group, is stepping up its restructuring programme and expects to shed a further 1,000 jobs in Western Europe and the US this year as production is switched to low-cost countries of Asia, Latin America and Eastern
Source: The Independent (London, England)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: Josh Kendrix Mar. 1--Job seekers from Yuba, Sutter and Colusa counties connected with employers Tuesday at the Job and Career Expo 2006 at the Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds. The fair was two events - a job fair and a career center, said Linda Baker, the organizer and fair co-chairperson. At least
Source: Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Tas: Labor sights set on jobs, economy: premier By Robyn Grace HOBART, March 1 AAP - Labor will continue its focus on jobs and the economy despite voter polls naming health as the major election issue, Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon says. Mr Lennon today said he believed a strong economy was still
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: By Steve Pain Deputy Business Editor Furniture retailer MFI will close 11 stores and outsource more manufacturing operations in a move putting nearly 1,500 jobs at risk. New chief executive Matthew Ingle yesterday announced the changes as the company revealed its trading difficulties forced
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Grim trading conditions forced retailers into the biggest jobs cull for at least 22 years, the latest CBI quarterly distributive trades survey revealed. The business lobby group blamed poor retail climate for 37 per cent of firms reporting job cuts this month, with 11 per cent seeing a rise in
Source: The Birmingham Post (England)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Fed: Public will get behind union campaign over Qantas job plan By Samantha Baden, Industrial Reporter SYDNEY, March 1 AAP - Qantas will suffer in the public eye if it pushes ahead with a plan to send up to 2,500 jobs offshore, unions say, as they prepare for a campaign of industrial action against
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-03-02
Nearly 500 former May workers lose downtown jobs Byline: Gail Appleson; St. Louis Post-Dispatch Edition: Third Edition Section: Business It was business as usual Tuesday for most area Famous-Barr and Lord & Taylor employees, but at the offices of the former May Department Stores Co. downtown,
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: Wright State University School of Medicine DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ohio Department of Health has awarded a $2.2 million contract in support of medical readiness and disaster preparedness to the Department of Emergency Medicine at Wright State University Boonshoft
Source: AScribe Business & Economics News Service
Posted: 2006-03-02
Byline: Brandon Ortiz Feb. 27--At Bucholz Cafe in Dayton, Ohio, William C. Sawyer, 45, is known as Big Bill, a loyal friend, practical jokester and family man who takes his 16-year-old son hunting and fishing. The burly 6-foot-6, 300-pound man also has a surprising soft side, friends say. A big
Feb. 23--NEENAH -- Now that the news Glatfelter will idle its plant here this summer is starting to sink in, everyone from employees to nearby businesses and city officials are wondering what to do next. For the 200 workers who will lose their jobs when the 100-year-old paper mill closes June 30,
Source: The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-03-02
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Existing in a temporary state of being can have its ups and downs. Insanity, for example, is always better when temporary. While the existence of taxes is about as permanent as it gets. But what about employment? For big and small businesses and the labor force alike, temporary employment can work
Source: Westchester County Business Journal
Posted: 2006-03-02